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I wanted to try some more of the new teas from CameronB and I knew we had a cinnamon raisin bagel and thought this would be perfect with it. My brain had done a mash up of the names of two of the teas together and I thought I was making something called Apple Cinnamon Chai rather than Apple Cinnamon French Toast. (Another tea sent was the herbal Apple Pie Chai)

When Ashman walked in the kitchen, he said, “I smell maple syrup.”

This was not a good thing to hear. He dislikes the smell of maple syrup because he says that when the children were little, they would sometimes eat waffles with maple syrup and no matter how we scrubbed them the smell remained, leading to his current dislike of said aroma.

Surprisingly, he liked this tea! A lot, in fact. He said it was sharp and a little biting to him plain, but that sugar smoothed it out so much that he didn’t even need to add milk. There are very few black teas that he likes plain, so I had sugar already on the table for him.

I drank it plain, and it is sharp enough that I thought there must be a little clove or ginger in it, but there is no mention of either unless it is part of the “apple cinnamon French toast flavoring”. I was not tempted to add anything to it to smooth it, as it went really well with our simple breakfast. It is probably just a sharper cinnamon in use, because Penzey’s Vietnamese Cinnamon is quite sharp and bold like this.

The aroma is so powerful with this tea. I can easily see it becoming a winter morning comfort craving.

Thank you so much, CameronB!