Imperial Wedding is a flavoured tea I never get tired with . Yet our story was wrong part !
Opening the bag is an olfactory shock : a large wind of caramel powder invades the nostrils. Too much . Too strong.
It’s a capricious tea, its tea-based assam made of cut leaves makes it complicated to brew properly.
I struggled to find the right temperature , I wasted the first half of a bag before finding : 2 minutes , no more. 90 ° C and not much.
When you miss it, you get a bitter tea undrinkable, yes undrinkable even with a dash of milk and sugar.
But when it succeeds, you get the most glamorous caramel tea , malty, strong in taste and still assam-y with a thin note of chocolate at the end of the sip.
Wedding Impérial … the Angel and Demon of Mariage Frères .
Completely demonic accompanied by a religieuse au café (coffee cream puff)!
For those who like to see, you can find pictures of the dry & wet leaf, infusion and religieuse au café here : http://thevangeliste.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/wedding-imperial-mariage-freres/
Flavors: Caramel, Chocolate
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I googled religieuse au café and they look so fancy! Fancy French teas and pastries, why are you oh so desirable…
they are sooooo good, one of my favourite pastries for sure
OH man, one of these days I am going to master baking the religieuse. So delicious!
@Sami this is typically something I am unable to bake, the cream is hard to do for me, if you managed to I’ll take an Eurostar ticket to get teached :)
I googled religieuse au café and they look so fancy! Fancy French teas and pastries, why are you oh so desirable…
they are sooooo good, one of my favourite pastries for sure
OH man, one of these days I am going to master baking the religieuse. So delicious!
@Sami this is typically something I am unable to bake, the cream is hard to do for me, if you managed to I’ll take an Eurostar ticket to get teached :)