3010 Tasting Notes
H&S Tower of London + cut & sifted mate leaf = not bad!
Mate’ these days, real or imagined, is my magic bullet when I just…can’t…get…going…in the morning. (Heavy storms in area last night…not a good night’s sleep. Head and heart knows Who’s taking care of me, but head didn’t notify the knots in my neck.) 1/2 teaspoon didn’t dull the flavor in a nice big tumbler of Tower of London. Works, flavor-wise. Remains to be seen, energy-wise.
Best part — shot of two tablespoons in a cup, no waiting, no steep time! I was seriously craving this; another tea treat I associate with early spring. Unsweet root beer for those of you who are unfamiliar with the base ingredient.
Since I have a whole bottle (minus last night’s splash) I wonder what this would mix well with. Hmmm…
Cake. Latte. Ice cream!
Where do you find this?
OMG – this is awesome… lol
Locally, at Price Cutter (a Kroger stepchild), a health food place or to, and don’t swear me to it, but I may have seen it at Wal-Mart.
gonna half to hunt fer it…. :)
I feel obliged to point out that sassafras is carcinogenic and can cause long-term liver damage. There’s a reason they don’t use it in root beer anymore.
Wow. Taken under advisement; and will keep moderation in mind.
I wonder how it’s even legal then?
Sassafras extracted from the roots is ok, and is still used today. Sassafras from the bark can cause damage to the liver over years of heavy use and can be carcinogenic and has been banned. This is because the extract from the bark contains safrole. Now, if the sassafras extract from the bark has the safrole removed, it is considered safe for consumption and is used commercially in teas and root beer.
We used to get tons of sassafras seedlings that we had to pull up each year, and the roots smelled heavenly! They come up by the dozens and I don’t even know where the parent tree is.
In the dendrology class I was in last semester, we used to pull twigs off the trees, pull off the bark and chew on the twigs, it was so good! These and Sweet Birch trees which smell and taste like evergreen mint!
Copied from Wikipedia (which I can’t always use as a credible source per my editors, but it’ll do for basic info: In 1960, the FDA banned the use of sassafras oil and safrole in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs based on the animal studies and human case reports.11 Several years later, sassafras tea was banned,11 a ban that lasted until the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994.12 Sassafras root extracts which do not contain safrole or in which the safrole has been removed are permissible, and are still widely used commercially in teas and root beers.
Label on my bottle looks to contain extracts only, so I feel quite safe in moderation :)
Found a forgotten bag in the bottom of my work tin and needed an afternoon pick-me-up, but it was getting late enough I didn’t want to waste a cup of really good stuff … so I tried it again after some months.
Must have accidentally found the sweet spot for time and temp (I sure wasn’t paying attention) but it was really pretty tasty. Just enough of the pomegranate came out to make it a nice, fruity afternoon tea.
It kills me not to be able to say anything nice about a tea in a review: http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/2712/tea-review-the-east-india-tea-company-apple-and-cinnamon-tea/
I threw the rest out. Wouldn’t wish the leftovers on my worst enemy.
I’m blaming my morning craving for this one on the weather—signs of spring more and more prominent. And when one sees “pregnant” daffodil buds in the front yard, don’t you just automatically think of Easter? And when you think of Easter, don’t you get a hankering for malted candy eggs? And when malted candy eggs are not under your roof—-this is an excellent substitute.
Full review’s posted here: http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/2685/tea-review-distinctly-tea-hers-womans-herbal/
There’s been a recent thread on discussion board about herbs/tisanes for all things female; I think this one could be added to the “pretty effective” list.
Longer review posted here: http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/2682/tea-review-teafrog-chocolate-and-cream-flavoured-black-2/ A really good dessert alternative!
Tired and bogged down with a bad case of the late-winter blugghs. Despite a boatload of projects and deadlines, just too tired to do anything but pop up Steve Martin (Austin City Limits replay on pbs.org) and be a schlub. Left the bag in and this is helping to clear my head a bit and counteract a day’s worth of amnesiac carbo-loading. (You know, where you wake up and wonder, “What happened to that full pack of Oreos?”)
This one gets a double set of stars…one for its Cheapster Steepster rating (less than $1 an ounce locally bulk) and one for its never-fail, cure-all personality.
