Teas And Tisanes

Nothing excites me more than to learn something new!  It is why I have so enjoyed teaching for so many decades, I always learn more personally than is ever passed on to those I am leading.

So, yesterday I was working on an article called, "The Perfect Cup of Tea", a future post on my Pleasures In Cooking blog I am trying to restart.  So many ideas, but I have to actually make the perfect cup of tea to prove it does make the best cup!  So far, one site's instructions literally blew the spout off of a 200  year old tea pot!  I should have known better - but that German part of me was following instructions!  (the main reason the German rail system was destroyed during the last war - plant a bomb and then paint "verboten" on the access to the bomb.  No German would ever try to access a forbidden area!)  Sigh ....

But during the course of my readings, I came across the term, "Tisane".  Never had ever ran into it before but I was to learn that in essence a Tisane is just an herbal tea!

So cool, a new word!  Of course, then I came across some interesting ideas for herbal teas.  I really do not like spiced or herbal teas, but I bookmarked them so I can check them out later.  Several of my friends do like these, so perhaps I will make up mixtures for Christmas for them ... hmmmm ...

As for the perfect cup of tea, still working on that one.  It must be truly the perfect cup of tea for me to document it - and preferably not blow the spout off the tea pot!  And I am learning a great deal about the history of tea I never knew as well.

Well must go, I have so much more research to do!  And I now have a strong desire to bake a batch of scones or singing hinnies (a tradition in my family!) ...