Friday, January 18, 2013

I could bost a cuppa!

Tea of course is made from the leaves of the tea plant and is claimed to be the most widely drunk beverage in the world after water.  If the leaves are allowed to ferment, it's known as black tea (what we usually drink) and if they are not, it's called green tea - and you can also have all sorts of teas from partly fermented or specially treated leaves.  And then you get herbal teas which are not strictly teas at all, but tisanes (Hercule Poirot anyone?) and can be made from just about anything - and some of them taste truly revolting.  Why am I going on like this?  Because the latest idea is tea made from coffee leaves - yes really!  Full of "goodies" apparently.  Not entirely a new idea - has been drunk in various parts of the Middle East - but new to us.  What are they going to call it - Toffee??

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