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Easy Leaf Tea: Tea House Recipes to Make at Home
Unravel the history, sample the flavors and experience the amazing versatility of the world's favorite brew and all its health-giving properties.
At the beginning of the book, tea expert Timothy d’Offay starts with the very basics with a section on water and tea tools to make brewing easier, like the hoop jug that helps you get the water temperature right for your green tea in an instant and with minimal fuss. Then, as well as traditional ways of making tea, he explores new brewing methods such as Flow Brew, which involves brewing one tea through another to create an infusion, and Ambient Tea, a way of making tea pair better with food. There is a Cold Brew chapter as well as one for delicious sparkling teas, called Kitchen Colas, which you can make in the comfort of your own home with tea and a few other natural ingredients. Fresh Fruit Tea Quarters are another new innovation, combining tea and fresh fruit juice to create a refreshing soft drink. One of most exciting recent developments in tea is the worldwide popularity of matcha both as a beverage and as an ingredient liberating it from the refined world of the tea ceremony. In Easy Leaf Tea there will be recipes to make the most of matcha and the other stoneground teas now available so you can learn to make tasty Somersault drinks—frappes, milk shakes, and ice creams. So turn on your kettle, tune into tea culture, and drop those tasteless tea bags for some of the best leaf tea experiences you can have.
At the beginning of the book, tea expert Timothy d’Offay starts with the very basics with a section on water and tea tools to make brewing easier, like the hoop jug that helps you get the water temperature right for your green tea in an instant and with minimal fuss. Then, as well as traditional ways of making tea, he explores new brewing methods such as Flow Brew, which involves brewing one tea through another to create an infusion, and Ambient Tea, a way of making tea pair better with food. There is a Cold Brew chapter as well as one for delicious sparkling teas, called Kitchen Colas, which you can make in the comfort of your own home with tea and a few other natural ingredients. Fresh Fruit Tea Quarters are another new innovation, combining tea and fresh fruit juice to create a refreshing soft drink. One of most exciting recent developments in tea is the worldwide popularity of matcha both as a beverage and as an ingredient liberating it from the refined world of the tea ceremony. In Easy Leaf Tea there will be recipes to make the most of matcha and the other stoneground teas now available so you can learn to make tasty Somersault drinks—frappes, milk shakes, and ice creams. So turn on your kettle, tune into tea culture, and drop those tasteless tea bags for some of the best leaf tea experiences you can have.
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published November 21, 2017
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May 11, 2023
My Thoughts:
Several reasons why I love this book:
I love learning about tea types. Where they are grown, how they are grown, how to harvest them, and how to develop certain types of teas from these dried leaves.
I love the luscious full-page illustrations. The color photographs are of women harvesting leaves, types of tea pots and other tea gadgets, different types of teas (the leaves and the tea from them), restaurants serving tea, lovely tables of teacups. I especially love the photos of making matcha tea.
I love the list of twenty teas to taste.
I love the recipes located in the back of the book.
I love the information on how to prepare tea according to tea type.
I love the size of the book.
Overall, this is a splendid book.
A great gift for a serious tea lover.
If I could add or change something about the book, I’d love to see more photographs of tea harvesting and the production of them. I’d like to read more tea history.
Format: Hardcover.
Source: Self-purchase @ World Market.
Audience: Serious tea drinkers.
Rating: Excellent.
Several reasons why I love this book:
I love learning about tea types. Where they are grown, how they are grown, how to harvest them, and how to develop certain types of teas from these dried leaves.
I love the luscious full-page illustrations. The color photographs are of women harvesting leaves, types of tea pots and other tea gadgets, different types of teas (the leaves and the tea from them), restaurants serving tea, lovely tables of teacups. I especially love the photos of making matcha tea.
I love the list of twenty teas to taste.
I love the recipes located in the back of the book.
I love the information on how to prepare tea according to tea type.
I love the size of the book.
Overall, this is a splendid book.
A great gift for a serious tea lover.
If I could add or change something about the book, I’d love to see more photographs of tea harvesting and the production of them. I’d like to read more tea history.
Format: Hardcover.
Source: Self-purchase @ World Market.
Audience: Serious tea drinkers.
Rating: Excellent.
April 29, 2020
He leído mucho en internet sobre el tema del té, y pensé que este libro no aportaría algo nuevo, pero me llevé una grata sorpresa.
Este libro tiene mucha información llena de valor para aquellos que buscamos profundizar en el tema; a nivel cultural, a nivel de recetas y a nivel de datos técnicos e históricos que te dejan maravillado.
Que decir de lo bien escrito, lleno de frases que expresan en palabras las maravillas del té.
“Leaves that awaken in hot water, and they then release their original natural world to you”
“The taste and experience of pure nature, with all its exquisite flavours and aromas, are at the heart of the enjoyment of tea”
Este libro tiene mucha información llena de valor para aquellos que buscamos profundizar en el tema; a nivel cultural, a nivel de recetas y a nivel de datos técnicos e históricos que te dejan maravillado.
Que decir de lo bien escrito, lleno de frases que expresan en palabras las maravillas del té.
“Leaves that awaken in hot water, and they then release their original natural world to you”
“The taste and experience of pure nature, with all its exquisite flavours and aromas, are at the heart of the enjoyment of tea”
December 24, 2020
Nice amount of information. If you've never looked up anything about matcha. Half the book's recipes, so if that's your thing, I can surely recommend it. Anyone else I would advice to just do some research on your own.
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