Imagine never tasting salt on your chips. Whipped cream on your scone or even jelly with ice cream. Have you ever thought about those small additions you add to the things you love? Would you still love them without their partner in crime?
Beautifully delicious combinations always find their way to one another but how did you hear about them? From family members and friends of course. We trust them and try their new concoction to see if we like it for ourselves.
This time, you could be the hero to bring a new partnership to the table with our top 10 condiments to help make you and yours tea taste better.
Let us know how you get on and which mix is your favourite.
The Queen’s Favourite: Lemon:
As traditional as Queen Elizabeth herself, the fresh hint of flavour that lemon can add is definitely worth trying. Not to mention the fact that lemon tea is bursting with benefits.
- Detoxifying the body
- Aids with digestion
- Promotes heart-health
- Enhances skin wellness
Simply drop a couple of thin slices of lemon into the bottom of your cup, fill with boiling water, give a quick stir… and voila! For sweeter, citrusy goodness, go ahead and add a spoon of honey.
Loving Life With Organic Lavender:
Lavender may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but you never know until you try right? The earthy notes of lavender can give you a pleasurable flowery taste to your tea.
Studies have shown lavender also has some great added health benefits, such as:
- Improving the quality of sleep
- Helps in reducing stress
- Ad’s a mental pick-me-up
All you will need for your first cup is 3 tablespoons of culinary lavender buds and to pop on the kettle (approx. 6 cups of water, which is exactly how much the Uccello Kettle holds). Place your lavender buds in a pot and pour boiling water over them. Let them sit for 10-15 minutes and pour the tea through a strainer. If you’ve got a sweet tooth, honey or sugar are great to add. For more check out Savor The Best.
Tea Up A Date With Cream:
Fun fact: Cream is thicker than whole milk due to containing a greater milk fat content.
For a truly decadent experience with your tea, the rich velvety thickness and texture of the cream is certainly a way to go.
Why should hot chocolate be the only one with cream? You and your tea deserve the best.
Tea Gets Exciting With Cider:
Tea with the goodness of apple is one for the list. We aren’t talking sickly sweet either, simply that fruity tinge to your already-elegant hot beverage.
All you will need:
- Fill your teacup halfway with black unsweetened tea.
- Heat 1/4 cup of apple cider in a pot or microwave & add it to your tea.
Simply Bee-autiful:
A natural sweetener and all-time cold-curing classic, is the humble bee’s honey. Many studies rave about how beneficial honey tea is for us. Even the ancient Egyptians understood the positive effects honey had on the human body, specifically the promotion of burn and wound healing. Honey is a great substitute for sugar and is:
- Rich in antioxidants, such as organic acids
- Pain-killing properties
- Lowers blood pressure
- Improves cholesterol levels
- Lowers triglycerides (elevated levels are a risk factor for heart disease)
Interestingly, when you add honey to green tea, it also reduces the effect on your glucose and insulin levels.
Don’t Stinge On The Ginge:
Numero Six on our list is none other than the ginger man himself. Ginger has a number of benefits and is well known as:
- An anti-inflammatory
- Aid to reduce blood pressure
- A good way to ease headaches
All you need:
For the best results, you just need 4 pieces of fresh ginger root with 4 cups of water into a saucepan. Bring to the boil and let them simmer for 5 minutes. Strain into your teapot and serve at your leisure.
Personally, I like to add a bit of lemon, but you can also drizzle some honey for a new natural flavour sensation.
Spice Up Your Life With Cinnamon:
Cinnamon tea just brings me back to Christmas. It really is a festive scent. One that you can have all year round.
This ageless ingredient does all the work for you. The flakiness of the cinnamon will dissolve when stirred into your hot water. Leaving behind a spicy-sweet potion that states as good as it smells.
Interestingly on cinnamon is that it can help reduce blood sugars, lower inflammation and may also help improve heart health.
The Royal Mint:
Fresh mint tea. Sounds mint, tastes mint, is mint.
How a few small, green leaves can leave such lingering bliss on your tastebuds is phenomenal. Spearmint and peppermint are most commonly fused with tea, and you can add other condiments like honey, ginger and lemon and you have made magic in a mug.
All you need:
- Boils 2 cups of water in your Uccello Kettle and pour into a saucepan.
- Add a teaspoon of leaves to the water (more if you like a stronger taste) and when ready, add to your teacup and enjoy.
Milky Gems:
Milking a cow has become a perfect art. Can you imagine how difficult it is to milk an almond?
We kid of course. For now, we want to talk about almond and coconut milk. Not only are they both lactose-free, but they both possess their own unique taste.
You don’t need to do anything here but change your current dairy or soy milk for either almond or coconut milk and enjoy. You can purchase them at most supermarkets so you don’t need to go out on a hunt.
Again, the health benefits are ever-present and forever strong.
Life’s Sweeter With Sugar:
Okay, we had to drop sugar in here. We already mentioned artificial sweeteners, but the most common sweetener by far is sugar. Not much more that we can tell you about sugar, however, we can provide an interesting video about how sugar is made to perform better at your quiz night SUGAR | How It’s Made.
The Final Tea Tip?
Boil Brilliantly With A Uccello Kettle!
This practical assistive technology makes pouring a kettle feel as light as a feather, while also opening up a world of confidence and independence for anyone who wishes to handle boiling hot water safely.
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Have your own secret additions? Leave them in the comments box below so we can all try it!
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