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From the good people at teadog.com, a free copy of Your Great Grandmother Made Better Tea: 50 Ice Tea, Tea Punch, Tea Dessert Recipes from 1890 to 1920. As they describe it, it's full of "tea recipes that have been lost over time with a compilation of 50 tea recipes from 1890 to 1920."

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DōMatcha green tea available from www.healthyandessential.com is shade-grown and only the unopened bud and the accompanying finest and youngest top 2 leaves are chosen to be hand-picked.
DōMatcha is pure, clean and additive free - and we can prove it! All our non-organic Matchas were tested by an independent lab, and there were absolutely no detectable residual chemicals from pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. The best thing about this incredible DoMatcha Tea are the recipes you can make with DoMatcha being the base ingredient. Giving all your cheeky drinks a reason to be drunk!

Master Handa's Juicy Matcha Recipe
Is it tea or juice? Either way, everyone agrees that Master Handa's juicy matcha recipe is delicious! He shared this recipe with attendees at the Matcha Seminar in San Francisco this past month, and now we want to share it with everyone else:

1/2 to 1 teaspoon of DōMatcha
6 ounces of water
6 ounces of juice, preferably a thick all-fruit drink such as Odwalla fruit smoothies

Mix the matcha and water together thoroughly. Pour juice in a separate glass, and add add matcha mix on top to form a lovely two-layered effect. You can also mix the matcha directly into the juice for a refreshing drink any time of day!

Matcha Green Tea Latte Recipe
For one 12oz to 16oz serving: Blend 1-2 teaspoons of DōMatcha and a small amount of liquid with a spoon to make a smooth paste. You can use hot or cold milk as well as vanilla soy, rice or almond milk. Add more liquid and sweeten as desired. Try adding chai spices, vanilla or white chocolate syrups for delicious variations!

Matcha Green Tea Frappe Recipe
For one 12oz to 16oz serving: Mix 1-2 teaspoons of DōMatcha with cold milk or vanilla soy/rice/almond milk and some ice cubes in a blender. Add sweetener, fruit or a sprinkle of cinnamon as desired. So easy and so good!

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Plaza Citrus Tea-zer Recipe

As summer heats up in Boston, Pairings Restauarant is now offering two new tea infused cocktails: the Plaza Citrus Tea-zer and theJasmine Tea Sangria. These refreshing tea cocktails, created by in-house Tea Sommilier Cynthia Gold, are available now through the end of the summer on the Pairings’ patio for $12 a piece.

Makes 1
11/2 ounces Green Tea-Coconut Rum
3 ounces grapefruit juice
1/2 ounce Green Tea-zer Simple Syrup
Splash Champagne
Lemon twist for garnish (optional)
Basil leaf for garnish (optional)
Shake the rum, grapefruit juice, and syrup vigorously in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Finish with a splash of Champagne and garnish with the lemon twist or a fresh basil leaf.


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Green Tea Cheesecake & Tea-Pops

If tea stuff with a sweet twist is what you're craving, check out these delights. From the Los Angeles Times, a recipe for
Layered Green Tea and Black Sesame Cheesecake. By way of Tavalon's The Voice of Tea, here's a recipe for Blueberry Tea Cream Pops.

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What Makes The Perfect Cup Of Tea?

What makes the perfect cup of tea? Well, there's a big question. London's Guardian recently reported on a survey by Waitrose Food Illustrated that tackled this topic. More here.

The makers of the BonJour FineT Gourmet Tea Machine would probably like you to believe that their space-age gadget can help make a perfect cup of tea. Read what Cnet had to say about it here.

Tea as an ingredient? You betcha. Here's a interesting post from The Tea Pages, where Katrina recounts her recent visit to the 2009 New England Culinary Tea Competition.

Social networking and tea come together at a Web site called Steepster. Yes, it's true. Here's another one from The Tea Pages, which feaured an interview with the Steepster guys a while back.

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Get Cooking With Tea

Here, courtesy of the Rishi Tea Web site, are a few recipes that make use of tea:

Chai Flan
Maghreb Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hazelnut Muffin with Cinnamon Plum Apple Jam

For an even more impressive selection of tea recipes, refer to Bigelow Tea's database, located here.

Last but not least, here are some of the previous posts about tea and cuisine at TGS.

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Green Tea Muffins

From the Belleville News Democrat, here's a recipe for Green Tea Muffins. The "active" ingredient, in this case, is matcha, a powder made from Japanese green tea.

Click here for the recipe. Also included, Orange Blueberry Muffins and Lemon Cranberry Muffins.

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Tea Ceremony & Matcha Recipes

The Santa Fe New Mexican recently featured a rather in-depth article on various aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony. Have a look here.

Here, from one of the Oregon papers, is an article on matcha, the powdered green tea used in the tea ceremony. Also included are recipes for Green Tea and Chive Dip, Green Tea Yogurt, Matcha Vinaigrette, Matcha Whipped Cream, and Matcha Latte.

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Tea Ices

Time to cool down, tea people.

The Los Angeles Times recently dug up a 2004 article from their archives. The topic - appropriately enough, given the season - is tea ices. Staff writer Donna Deane has put together a selection of "recipes for beautifully aromatic ices and granitas using Lapsang souchong, Earl Gray, jasmine, plum oolong, genmai cha and other teas."

I was able to access the article with no problem, but the Los Angeles Times may require that you register or pay for content after a certain period of time. Here's the link.

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Matcha Angel Food Cake & FoodView

The Coconut & Lime site posted an interesting recipe for Matcha Angel Food Cake yesterday. If you're looking for some sweet stuff with a little bit of pick-me-up, I guess this would be the one.

For those of you who might be looking for a big whopping bunch of recipes that use tea, look no further than the FoodieView recipe search engine. A search for the keyword "tea" brought back 18,534 results, which should be enough to keep you busy for a while.

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Lephet (Tea Salad)

Lephet, also known as La-phat, La-phet, or letphet, is a pickled tea salad popular in Myanmar (Burma). You can read about it here and here, though the English in both articles is a little rough. If Myanmar's too far to go and you're ever in the vicinity of Fort Wayne, Indiana, swing by Golden House Asian Cuisine and sample some.

For another spelling variation and an interesting, article on the delicacy, go to In Pursuit of Tea's Web site and read Sebastian Beckwith's short piece.

Here's an article from CuisineNet about Burmese cuisine. It offers more information about the dish, including a recipe that substitutes ginger for tea. It's probably safe to say that you could ditch the ginger and put the tea back in, though the author claims Burmese tea is a key component in the recipe.

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Cooking With Tea & Tea Recipes

Since starting TGS, I've run across a number of useful resources to assist those looking to cook with tea. Since they were scattered throughout the archives, I thought it might be useful to gather some of them together in one place.

From the New York Times, here's a recipe for Tea-Smoked Chicken Thighs With Pomegranate Glaze.

The Baltimore Sun ran an article on Tea Cuisine, that includes recipes for Chinese Tea Eggs, Chai Tea Ice Cream, and Tea-Sauced Scallops With Orange, Soy and Honey.

The Washington Times has also done their take on tea cuisine, in an article that includes recipes for Glazed Chicken Breasts in a Honey Lemon Tea, Tea and Lime Sorbet, and Tea-Smoked Scallops.

From NPR, here's a piece that ran some time back about tea, along with a Tea Primer and three recipes from Eat Tea, by Joanna Pruess with John Harney. The recipes - Lapsang Souchong Gravlax, Tea Grits and Green Fruits in Jasmine Tea Syrup.

On the Web, take a look at TeaChef, a forum for tea cuisine hosted by Adagio Teas. They hold a monthly recipe contest featuring a different tea each time and their archive contains recipes submitted in past contests.

Also on the Web:
Bigelow Tea - Recipes
Boston Tea Campaign - Recipes for Darjeeling Tea
Darjeeling Tea Network - Tea Recipes
EnjoyingTea.com - Tea Recipes
Hibiki-an - Tea Recipes
Lipton - Recipe Search
Nathmulls of Darjeeling - Tea Recipes
Simpson & Vail - Rooibos Recipes
Yogi Tea - Summer Recipes
YuzuMura - Matcha Recipes

If you're looking for tea cookbooks, here are a few to get you started:

Cooking with Green Tea: Delicious Dishes Enhanced by the Miraculous Healing Powers of Green Tea
by Ying Chang Compestine

Cooking With Tea: Techniques and Recipes for Appetizers, Entrees, Desserts, and More
by Robert Wemischner and Diana Rosen

Eat Tea: Savory and Sweet Dishes Flavored with the World's Most Versatile Ingredient
by Joanna Pruess and John Harney

Making Your Own Gourmet Tea Drinks
by Mathew Tekulsky

New Tastes in Green Tea: A Novel Flavor for Familiar Drinks, Dishes, and Desserts
by Mutsuko Tokunaga and Jane Pettigrew

Tales of a Tea Leaf: The Complete Guide to Tea Cuisine
by Jill Yates

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Earl Grey Cookies

I have to admit that I'm not really keen on Earl Grey tea.

If you are and you'd like to take a shot at making some Earl Grey Tea Cookies, check out this recipe from Martha Stewart Living. It uses finely ground Earl Grey tea leaves and orange zest, among other things, and appears to be a pretty simple one to make.

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Green Tea Tasting Notes & Tea Cookery

Here's a piece from the Times (London), in which a British chef offers his thoughts on some green teas. He is Nicholas Watt, head chef of Roka. He gives the thumbs up to Waitrose Organic Green Tea, Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, and Sainsbury’s Pure Green Tea. Not so spiffy were Clipper Pure Green Tea, Jacksons of Piccadilly Pure Chinese Sencha Green Tea, and Tetley Minty Green Tea Magic.

If you're itching to do some cooking with tea, check out this article from Chefs.com, with recipes for Chocolate Tea Cake and Red Dress Vanilla Rose Pound Cake.

From China Daily, here's an article about a shrimp dish made with tea leaves.

And from The Essence of Emeril, via the Food Network site, here's a recipe for Tea Smoked Quail with Chilled Noodle Salad and Kicked-Up Hoisin Sauce. We might have mentioned this one before, but here it is again.

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More Iced Tea Recipes

We've been flooded - if I dare say so - with so many iced tea recipes lately that one might reasonably conclude that it's National Iced Tea Month.

The Yogi Tea Web site has some recipes listed, among then a Rooibos Chai Float and an African Redbush Peach Smoothie.

Installment nine of the Charlotte Observer's Tea Tour looks at Great Wall of China. If you're not in that part of the world you can try this recipe for Southern-Style Sweet Iced Tea.

From the Food Network's Good Deal with Dave Lieberman, comes a recipe for the old reliable - Mint Iced Tea.

The Northwest Indiana Times recently ran an article on iced tea and tea in general. Among the recipes here are a Cold Brew Tea-Time Ice Cream Float, a Cold Brew Cranberry Mint Cooler and a Beat-The-Heat Tea Shake.

Also from the Carolinas, comes some advice from Greenville area restaurateurs. They don't offer any recipes, but there are some tips on how to make iced tea.

Then there's this brief report from the Monterey County Herald on POM Tea, whose flavors include pomegranate black tea, pomegranate lychee tea, pomegranate blackberry black tea and pomegranate peach passion white tea.

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Tea Recipes

It's time to share a few tea-related recipes I've run across recently. Actually, this first one is not so much a recipe as a nice picture and some information. It's a Green Tea Opera Cake featured at the Nordljus site. In response to the many commenters, the site owner has promised to try to get an actual recipe online.

I recently (yesterday) mentioned some iced tea recipes posted at the Sacramento CBS affiliate's page. That article also includes a recipe for Elegant Garden Teamisu, which is made with French Caramel Fudge Brulee Tea.

Chocolate And Zucchini recently featured Langues de Chat au Thé Vert, which are "classic French cookies that fall into the category of petits fours secs (dry petits fours, as opposed to miniature versions of pastries with buttercream, pastry cream, etc)". They're made with matcha and you can read all about them here.

Here's an article from one of the Australian papers about a Brisbane restaurant called Augustine's. The owner and chef there recently came up with a degustation menu that featured a different Twinings tea in each course.

As the article notes, "the dishes range from Queensland-farmed barramundi poached in lemon juice and green tea, to seared king prawn cutlets tossed in honey and chai, to duckling braised in Twinings raspberry and peach tea."

Scroll down to the end to see the recipes for Braised Duckling in Twinings Raspberry and Peach Tea and Oven Baked Pork Fillet Marinated with Twinings Blackcurrant and Apple Tea.

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Vodka Recipes & Rooibos Recipes

Some time back I wrote about a green tea-flavored vodka from Charbay Winery and Distillery. While nosing around at their Web site recently, I ran across a page that list recipes for three cocktails made using this particular spirit. There's the Angèle Green Tea Cooler, the Charbay Green Teani and the Mochi Cocktail.

Over at Simpson & Vail's Web site, they have an iced tea recipe that uses vodka and Rooibos, or redbush, an herbal "tea" from South Africa. Also at their Rooibos recipes page are various recipes for drinks, cocktails, desserts, soups and main dishes. Rooibos Fudge, anyone?

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Green Tea Ice Cream Recipe

From the Seattle Times, just in case you missed it, here's a recipe for green tea ice cream. It uses matcha, the powdered green tea also used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Though you could probably substitute another type of green tea if you absolutely had to.


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Health Tea Recipes

I ran across an interesting selection of tea recipes recently at the Enjoyingtea.com Web site. Now, before I go on let me say that I'm rather on the skeptical side when it comes to many of the high-falutin' claims put forth for tea. I'd also recommend that you proceed with caution when sampling offbeat teas and infusions, especially if you already have a health problem.

That said, there are some interesting recipes listed at this page, including Banana Tea, Peanut & Ginger Tea, Lichee & Plum Tea, Dry Fried Rice Tea, Shrimp Tea, Red Date Tea, White Radish Tea and Tomato Tea. Which all looks mighty interesting, whether or not they confer the marvelous health benefits that they claim to.

While we're on the subject of unusual teas, how about Jiaogulan, a "wild green tea sagebrush that grew along the steppes" of southern China. You can find out more about this one here. Once again, there are some pretty lofty claims made for the product, so do keep your wits about you as you peruse them.

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