Late night tea (though likely not my last cup of the night)…
I was so conflicted about what to drink it’s not even funny. A quarter of me wanted a good Earl Grey, a quarter longed for something tropical (like Asia Cocktail), the third wanted something slightly minty, and the last quarter needed something decadent and chocolatey. Ultimately, I decided that I’d try and drink something I haven’t logged yet – so this one won.
I like this one a lot – it’s just a really good cream Earl Grey in general. I find that, personally, it doesn’t get bitter very easily and there’s a lovely balance of bergamot and creaminess to it. Some days I feel like it really benefits from just a small splash of milk, and others I think it’s perfectly fine all on its own. For me, this is an any time of the day tea!
In my old town, there was a coffee shop/cafe type place that sold a drink called a London Fog (Starbucks has one too which is really good), and that has regular old Earl Grey tea, vanilla syrup and steamed milk – to me, this tea tastes almost exactly like that. It’s just a really good reliable tea.
IN a move of either brilliance or idiocy, I decided today to add butterscotch pudding to my tea. Well, really it’s more butterscotch soup. I spent the last few hours trying to make my own butterscotch pudding from, essentially, scratch instead of buying those individual pudding cups. I followed the recipe to a tea, but it never got thick and pudding like. I’m gonna leave it in the fridge overnight and maybe, fingers crossed, it’ll get pudding like?
Regarding the tea, the addition of pudding makes the tea smell like plain old butterscotch pudding, and drinking it you really taste the butterscotch in the beginning of the tea, with the normal flavour of the tea following and leading into the tail end of the sip and aftertaste. It’s really good, but tonight just not hitting the spot completely – but that might be because I had so many teas calling out to me tonight to begin with.
Hmmm… Maybe this is something I’ll enter into Stacy’s contest? Would people actually be interested in drinking a butterscotch Earl Grey? Does such a thing already exist?
Regardless, rating this tea on how it usually tastes to me, and not how it’s sitting tonight (also, apologies for this post jumping around so much – I guess at the moment I’m not thinking so much in a linear way).
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Heck ya! Earl grey and butterscotch sounds good!
I ended up suggesting three teas for the contest – and Butterscotch Earl Grey was definitely one of them! The others were a Frosty Lime Pie and Purple Sweet Potato (with other ingredients that compliment the natural taste of purple sweet potato and fit more traditional styles of making purple sweet potato, so: lemon, ginger, walnuts, and almonds). I still have like three cups of butterscotch soup/pudding left, so I’m gonna try adding butterscotch to a few different Earl Greys…
Heck ya! Earl grey and butterscotch sounds good!
I ended up suggesting three teas for the contest – and Butterscotch Earl Grey was definitely one of them! The others were a Frosty Lime Pie and Purple Sweet Potato (with other ingredients that compliment the natural taste of purple sweet potato and fit more traditional styles of making purple sweet potato, so: lemon, ginger, walnuts, and almonds). I still have like three cups of butterscotch soup/pudding left, so I’m gonna try adding butterscotch to a few different Earl Greys…