So spring is here and so is the first in our herbal tea range! Being tea lovers and we have sampled our own herbal blends for a while. This prompted us to experiment with a variety of herbal diffusions and finesse the ones we really like. While we love our black tea, our delicately infused herbal tea drinks are so lovely, we just had
Jasmine White London Herbal Chai tea blend, combining specially selected aromatic and healing herbal spices
to introduce them to our Jasmine White London family and fans. Not only are these an absolute delight to the palate, our herbal teas combine healing properties so one may indulge oneself and benefit from said indulgence. The beauty of our herbal tea range is that we have gone with the ones we have tried and tested and then have them blended especially for their healing properties and aroma.
If you are a tea connoisseur, you will enjoy our herbal teas starting with our Herbal Chai Tea blend. Made with a curated balance of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cardamom and anise especially to our recipe, the Jasmine White London Herbal Chai Tea blend tastes delicious with milk or plant based milk as a Herbal Chai tea latte. Combined with black tea this makes a delicious herbal chai tea. You can sweeten this with honey or any sweetener you like.
As with all our range these make beautiful and exquisite gifts.Jasmine White London Herbal Chai tea blend, combining specially selected aromatic and healing herbal spices; brewed with black teaJasmine White London Herbal Chai Tea Blend combining specially selected aromatic and healing herbal spices Available nowJasmine White London Herbal Chai tea latte blend, combining specially selected aromatic and healing herbal spices. Herbal Chai Tea Latte can be made using dairy or plant based milk.Our recipe suggestion for a perfect cup of Herbal chai tea latte:
Take 125 ml of water, add in 125 ml of milk (or plant based alternative), add 1 teaspoon of Jasmine White London Herbal Chai Tea, and set all ingredients together to heat in a saucepan. Once the mixture has boiled, strain it using a tea strainer into a tea cup or your favourite Jasmine White London mug. Add sweetener/sugar/honey as desired. Enjoy the beautiful aroma as you sip this delicate tea. (This recipe is for one cup of tea; for more, adjust the quantities accordingly)
We have been posting about memories the Royal Tour has been bringing back and a post on the Queen’s 90th birthday is along similar lines. It reminds us of a time when we lived in Ooty, in the Nilgiris, or Blue Mountains, in South India.
The Mountains in Ooty are not quite as high as the Himalayas, but are very pleasant and are also known for their beauty, the lake and tea estates, amongst other things.
Picking strawberries, Plums from the plum trees in the back, peaches in a friend’s garden, picnicking on the picturesque spots such as Doddabetta and Lamb’s Rock, visiting nearby elephant sanctuary in Kodaikanal, travelling up using the narrow gauge Nilgiri ‘Blue Hills’ train, and enjoying beautiful flowers including hydrangeas and morning glory in the garden is a fond memory.
Picturesque Emerald Lake
As children we were intrigued with the Queen’s head being featured on British stamps, (as most other stamps we came across were pretty varied)-the only difference appeared to be the colours of the stamps. These consistently appeared from time to time as and when new stamps were issued. Quite similar to those stamps, the quiet dignity with which Her Majesty carries on with her duties year after year (several of them in any given day), almost seems to tie in with consistent regularity of the appearance of those stamps.
Having seen the Royal family constantly equated to ‘any other family’ and knowing that a lot more is expected of them despite this ‘equation’, we would like to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday with sincere congratulations.
As quoted by someone quite rightly on being the longest reigning Monarch, the Queen has had ‘a singular reign, and a singularly successful reign at that’. And we think it is fitting that we use the image that made the stamps from our childhood in the Nilgiri Hills so intriguing and unwaveringly constant. Happy birthday, Your Majesty! (All images of the queen Courtesy Twitter; images of Ooty, Courtesy Wikipedia)
