After I wrote my last entry while being seriously down, I thought I would write this one on a high note. While I planned this blog to be about a variety of topics I mostly wrote about depression so far but today, we are talking about tea. So if you are not interested in that, move oolong, nothing to tea here.
Did I mention I love bad puns?
Anyway, I bought some jasmine tea today. What surprised me about jasmine tea is the way it is scented. The most obvious way to add additional flavours to tea is to add more ingredients. Want some mintyness in your green tea? Add mint leaves.
However this does not work with every type of flavouring, only the ones that are water-soluble enough. Beyond that one can use essential oils, artificial substances or even smoke. Making jasmine tea however is a lot more direct. After the tea has been dried, it is mixed with freshly picked flowers either by direct blending or by spreading them out in alternating layers. At night the blossoms open and the partea is getting started.
Get it? Eh? Eh?
Since the tea is dry but the flowers are fresh, the tea absorbs the moisture and along with it the jasmine fragrance. Maybe I am just too easy to entertain but isn’t this neat? Such a low-tech solution! If well made, the result is a flavour that does not mask the taste of the base tea but rather complements it and brings you inner tranqulilitea.
Muhahaha… I’ll see myself out.
The Metaphorical of Delphi 