What is Lemon Curd Tea?

First, let’s talk about lemon curd. Lemon curd is a dessert spread made with lemons, butter, sugar and egg. It’s smooth and zesty and can be used for baking or enjoyed simply spread over bread. Lemon curd is so tasty that it really deserves a tea of its own. With the Lemon Curd Tea, Fortnum & Mason have made that a reality.

Lemon Curd Tea is made with green tea, white hibiscus, liquorice root, lemon peel and lemon curd flavouring. It comes in individually wrapped pyramid tea bags with loose tea. The packaging is pretty and cheerful and has a feel of a proper desert blend. In short, super pretty and exciting.  

This tea has only a few ingredients, and all of them contribute to the flavour. Perhaps, the most interesting one is white hibiscus, not as common in tea as its red counterpart. Hibiscus is an amazing ingredient that gives a perfect amount of tartness and is not as sour as lemon. A big difference between red and white hibiscus is that the white one won’t colour the tea. There’s also liquorice, a natural sweetener that is perfect for balancing this blend.

How to make this tea?

Lemon Curd is a loose tea in pyramid tea bags. That means it’s easier to brew than loose tea but offers a better flavour than a classic tea bag. Bring fresh water to a boil and let it cool down to 80 degrees Celsius. Steep one tea bag in 150-200 of water for 3 minutes. 

It brews into a light-coloured tea with a delicate, but deep and rich scent of lemon. There’s absolutely no astringency and green tea serves as a perfect base for this tea. It’s not grassy, it’s not smoky, it’s just smooth and rich to carry all the flavours and combine them into a true dessert tea.

Lemon Curd tea has a surprisingly delicate and refreshing flavour with gentle sweetness, zesty and creamy mouthfeel and a gentle lingering tartness of white hibiscus. It’s not overpowering, and yet it has a very rich flavour with incredible lightness.

This tea doesn’t need any condiments, but both sugar and honey would be good for this tea.

Lemon Curd green tea would be perfect for tea drinkers that like the flavour of lemon and fruity teas. Although the base for this blend is a green tea, it’s very far from a typical pure green tea flavour. It’s delicate and light and would be great for tea drinkers that rarely drink green tea, because they don’t enjoy grassy or smoky flavours or don’t like the bitterness.

At £6.95, this tea has a lot of expectations to fulfil, and it fulfils all of them. It’s a blend that’s just perfect for special me-times, when you want to feel happy, relaxed and pampered. It’s delicious, unique, and most importantly, it really tastes like lemon curd.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water

Day or night? Day

Hot or iced? Hot or cold

Sweetened or pure? Pure or sweetened.

Caffeine? Yes

What’s the price? £6.95

Where to buy? Get it from the Fortnum & Mason website.

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Sometimes, a classic lemon tea is just not enough. Here are the ultimate lemon desserts tea blends you can buy online.

11 Tea Blends Inspired by Lemon Desserts

1. Lemon Curd

You simply can’t go wrong with lemon curd. It’s creamy, has an irresistible lemon scent and flavour, and it’s super versatile. You can use it for making desserts or simply spread it on a slice of bread or scones. Fortnum & Mason knows everything about lemon curd, and about tea too. This blend is a real liquid version of a proper, super delicious lemon curd, blended with gentle green tea, white hibiscus, liquorice root, lemon peel and lemon curd flavouring.

Price: 6.95 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Fortnum and Mason website

2. Lemon Meringue

Inspired by a lemon meringue pie, this powdered tea latte is anything but a typical tea. It’s blended with herbal ingredients with adaptogenic properties – maca, ashwagandha and turmeric, plus lemon peel. It’s easy to make, can be prepared with or without milk, and even used for making your own sweet lemon treats with benefits.

Tasted – Read more about Lemon Meringue tea

Price: from 5.99 GBP

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal powder blend

Where to buy: Tea and the Gang Amazon store

3. Lemon Waffle

There are waffles, and there are lemon waffles. And then, there’s a lemon waffle tea with such an incredible buttery and lemony notes and proper sweetness, it will quite easily become your favourite type of liquid waffle ever. This herbal blend is caffeine free, looks pretty and cheerful, and contains apple and pineapple pieces, lemon verbena, caramel cubes, lemon granules, sweet blackberry leaves and marigold blossoms.

Tasted – Read more about Lemon Waffle tea

Price: from 2.95 GBP

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: BRUU website

4. Lemon Pound Cake

Lemon pound cake is a simple cake with a long history and irresistible buttery and lemony flavour. This lemon cake tea blend is made with organic ingredients – green rooibos, an herbal tea with both flavour profile and benefits similar to green tea (minus the caffeine and astringency), marshmallow root, lemon peel and natural flavours.

Price: from 3.00 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: Dominion Tea website

5. Lemon Drizzle Cake

Lemon drizzle cake is a pound cake with an addition of a lemon drizzle glaze. Having a sweet buttery flavour and even more zestiness, this classic dessert is one of the most beloved tea time treats ever. This lemon drizzle cake inspired tea blend is as fresh as it gets. It’s blended with smooth Chinese green tea and a range of lemony flavours – lemongrass, lemon verbena, and lemon pieces.  

Price: from 3.00 GBP

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: Rosie Lea Tea Etsy shop

6. Lemon Biscotti

Popular Italian crunchy cookies undeniably go well with tea, especially if they are sweet, decadent and zesty. A tea blend inspired by this classic Italian treat features super interesting ingredients blended to give the same distinctive sweet, biscuity and zesty taste – bold black tea base, currants, lemon, tangerine, lemongrass, moringa and blackberry leaves.  

Price: from 1.54 USD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: The Tea Club website

7. Lemon Cheesecake

A list of lemon treats would not be complete without a proper lemon cheesecake. This sweet and zesty blend contains a whole range of naturally sweet and zesty ingredients, including the rare white hibiscus flower, lemon myrtle, lemon peel, sweet liquorice root and – hazelnut.

 Price: from 10.00 CAD

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: HotCups Canada website

8. Lemon Sorbetti

Sorbetti or sorbetto, an icy Italian treat, served as an inspiration for an award-winning blend with a 100% lemon soul. This refreshing, crisp green tea is combined with distinctive lemony and fresh organic ingredients – lemon myrtle, lemon verbena, lemongrass and lemon peel, all rounded up a with natural lemon flavour.

Price: from 18.00 USD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Tea Forte website

9. Lemon Pie

A classic lemon pie is a simpler version of a lemon meringue pie, with the same delicious flavour, minus the meringue. This lemon desserts inspired tea is a blend of fresh, zesty and sweet ingredients – green tea, vanilla, lemon and crème flavour, sprinkled with adorable lemon sprinkles.

 Price: from 8.85 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Tea Loves You website

10.  Lemon Sherbet

Sherbet, a frozen dairy dessert, tastes absolutely delightful when made with real lemons. It served as an inspiration for a fruity blend of sweet and sour ingredients – apple pieces, rosehips, lemongrass, orange peel and calendula petals finished with a natural flavouring. 100% caffeine free and 100% sugar free and great for making summer iced teas and icy treats.

Price: from 3.50 GBP

Caffeine: No

Type: fruit tea blend

Where to buy: Bird & Blend website

11.  Glazed Lemon Loaf

Dessert teas are more often available as loose tea, rather than tea bags. There are exceptions, though. If tea brewing is something you don’t want to spend too much time on, but still want to enjoy liquified lemon desserts, Glazed Lemon Loaf may be the one. It’s blended with green rooibos tea, liquorice root, calming chamomile, rose petals, apples, orange peel and ginger and it’s caffeine free.

Price: from 3.78 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: Explore options on Tazo website or buy on Amazon

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What is a hot toddy?

Hot toddy is an Irish drink, usually made with whiskey, honey, water and lemon. Whiskey can be replaced with other alcohol, such as gin, bourbon, vodka or rum. What makes hot toddy a perfect winter drink is that although it contains alcohol, honey, lemon and water make it lighter and warming. If you love mulled wine or mulled cider, you will love this drink too. Making a hot toddy with tea is not a novelty, though. Tea, especially Earl Grey, is actually a common ingredient in hot toddies.

Ingredients for making an Earl Grey Hot Toddy with gin

To make an Earl Grey hot toddy, you will need 5 ingredients:

• Earl Grey tea – you can use both loose leaf tea and tea bags, but choose tea that is still fresh and aromatic. Don’t over-brew it to avoid bitterness.
• Honey – regular light honey will be great, but experiment with different types if you wish.
• Fresh lemon – you will need up to 1/4 of a whole lemon per serving, and optionally a slice more to garnish your drink
• Gin – use quality original gin without added colourings or flavourings.
• Water – always boil fresh water.

Can I make Earl Grey hot toddy without alcohol?

Yes, you can. Although it won’t taste quite the same. To make it as close to the original as possible, you can use gin, rum or whiskey food flavourings. They don’t contain any alcohol but will make your hot toddy different from a regular cup of hot tea with lemon and honey.

Which tea is the best for making a hot toddy?

Earl grey is one of the best teas to use. It has a citrusy aromatic flavour that blend well with many ingredients. You can also use a slightly spiced black tea, or chai, especially if you are making it with whiskey. Choose teas that are flavourful and would go well with other ingredients you are using. Classic hot toddy is often made with cinnamon and some other spices and herbs such as cloves, ginger, or thyme.

You can try:

• herbs and zesty ingredients with more neutrally flavoured alcohol, such as vodka or gin
• spices that add warming notes with whiskey, bourbon and rum
• apple black tea blends or pure black tea with bourbon, rum and whiskey, especially if you are not adding other ingredients
• fresher citrusy, lemon black tea or orange black tea blends and earl grey teas with vodka and gin

Can I use other sweeteners?

Whichever drink or tea you are making, the final flavour will be a sum of all ingredients. That means even the choice of a sweetener will make a difference. Traditionally, honey is used for sweetening a hot toddy, but the second-best choice is light brown sugar. Both honey and brown sugar have a more complex flavour than regular white granulated sugar. However, you can use a calorie free sugar alternative too, although some may have a distinctive flavour.

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Earl Grey Hot Toddy with Gin Recipe

Warming holiday drink with Earl Grey tea and gin

Course Drinks

Keyword Black Tea, Earl Grey, Gin, Honey, Lemon

Prep Time 7 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• Measuring cup
• Kettle
• Teapot or a disposable tea filter

Ingredients

• 170 ml of water
• 2 teaspoons of honey
• 4 teaspoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon of earl grey tea (or 1 tea bag)
• 25 ml of gin

Instructions

• Measure 1 teaspoon of tea leaves.
• Bring fresh water to a boil.
• Steep tea in 170 ml of water for 5 minutes, covered.
• Strain into a serving glass or cup.
• Add gin, lemon juice and honey and stir until dissolved.
• Serve hot.

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What is Lemon Meringue Powdered Latte?

Lemon Meringue powdered latte, as the description says, is a respectful tribute to the classic lemon meringue pie. It’s a blend of different powders and flavour granules, including maca, ashwagandha, turmeric and lemon peel.

What’s really interesting in this powder blend is that unlike other herbal adaptogen blends, it feels the ingredients were not chosen to provide the benefits, but a great dessert flavour instead. Maca, turmeric and ashwagandha all have an adaptogenic potential and are commonly available as powders. What exactly are adaptogens? Adaptogens are plants that may help fight off stress, rejuvenate the body and improve immunity. One of the most popular adaptogen is tulsi or holy basic, but plants such as maca and ashwagandha are steadily catching up too.

Lemon Meringue powder has a bright yellow colour, and quite an intense earthy and slightly zesty scent of lemons and herbs.

What is the best way to prepare it?

To make this latte, use ½ teaspoon of powder as per instructions on the packaging. Add about 30 ml of hot water and whisk it using an electric frother, then top it up with milk. You can make it with both hot and cold milk. Hot milk gives a warmer, sweeter drink, while cold milk reveals a bit more natural bitterness. Flavour is quite light, and although this latte doesn’t need a sweetener, you can add some honey or white sugar.

Another great way of making this latte is with hot water only. Of course, it technically wouldn’t be a latte anymore, but the flavour more than justifies it. It tastes absolutely delicious prepared with water only.  Since milk is adding a sweet and creamy note, to replace sweetness you can add a teaspoon of honey and serve with a slice of lemon.

Tea and the Gangs says, get creative, so if you are in the mood for baking, try adding it to homemade meringue kisses.

This wellbeing blend has a flavour profile that’s atypical for adaptogenic blends. If you like turmeric lattes and enjoy earthy herbal blends, you will love this powdered latte too. It tastes unique, contains 4 kcal per 1.5 grams of powder (plus milk), and is vegan friendly. Final thoughts? A tasty, relaxing caffeine-free latte, perfect for afternoons and evenings.

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Ingredients for making Earl Grey Lemon Popsicles

There’s no brewing required for this recipe. Instead, we used an Earl Grey sugar syrup – the best ingredient you could possibly have in your fridge during summer. Fresh lemon and water are the other two. Think of it as a frozen Earl Grey lemonade and you’ll get the idea. You will also need popsicle moulds, which are nowadays available everywhere. They all come with a popsicle stick, but you can replace it with a wooden one.  

How to Make Earl Grey Tea Syrup

We recommend making Earl Grey tea syrup a day in advance. You can store it in the fridge for a couple of weeks and use whenever you want. Earl Grey tea syrup is very easy to make. You will need a strong and fragrant Earl Grey tea and white granulated sugar. This Earl Grey simple syrup recipe makes 20 tablespoons of syrup, which would be enough to make up to 20 Earl Grey Lemon popsicles.  

Check out more ideas on how to use Earl Grey syrup.

Can you replace Earl Grey syrup with some other tea syrup?

Absolutely. However, choose blends that have a citrusy note. Earl Grey is black tea scented with bergamot (Citrus bergamia), a type or orange originating from Italy. These oranges look similar to lemons and are not typically used as regular oranges. Instead, they are famous for its essential oil. Bergamot oil is derived from the peel, and it’s been used for scenting Earl Grey tea for 200 years. Earl Grey without bergamot would not be an Earl Grey.

Lemon flavoured black tea would be a great alternative to Earl Grey. However, they won’t taste the same.

Can you add more syrup and lemon?

Yes, but don’t add less. Use at least 1 tablespoon of syrup per popsicle or more. Simple syrups are very sweet as they are basically only sugar melted in water. We found that 1 lemon is just enough for a good balance.

How to add popsicle stick to watery popsicles

Watery popsicles have a different texture than creamy popsicles. Unless you are using popsicle stick that was originally included with your popsicle mould, you won’t be able to attach a wooden stick immediately. Let them freeze for about 30 minutes before inserting a popsicle stick and freeze for an additional 5-6 hours.

How to store Earl Grey lemon popsicles?

Fully frozen, it’s best to keep them in their original mould. You can use one zip-lock bag and place for all of them and store for several weeks. They will keep longer, but if you want to enjoy the best possible fresh flavour, use them within a couple of weeks. We bet you won’t be able to resist them for that long, though.

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Earl Grey Lemon Popsicles

Refreshing, esasy to make popislces with lemons and a cassic bergamot and black tea flavour.

Course Dessert, Summer Treats

Keyword Earl Grey, Popsicles

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Freezing time 6 hours hours

Total Time 6 hours hours 5 minutes minutes

Servings 4 popsicles

Equipment

• 4 popsicle moulds
• Measuring cup

Ingredients

• 100 ml of cold water
• freshly squeezed juice of one lemon
• 5 tablespoons of Earl Grey simple syrup

Instructions

• In a measuring cup, mix 100 ml of water, freshly squeezed juice of one lemon and 5 tablespoons of Earl Grey Simple Syrup.
• Mix it until syrup dissolves.
• Pour into moulds and put in the freezer for 30 minutes.
• Add popsicle sticks and leave to fully freeze.

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Some teas can bring out the widest smiles. And with some teas, even your personal flavour or type preferences don’t matter. Is Lemon Waffle tea from Bruu one of them?

What is Lemon Waffle?

Lemon Waffle is an herbal and fruity tea from a UK based tea subscription company Bruu. It comes in a beautiful packaging, with a little card with simple brewing instructions and details attached with a small clip. Bruu has been around for quite a few years, with a mission to offer a better tasting tea. Lemon Waffle is indeed, different.

Let’s start with the ingredients. Packaging states that ingredients in this blend are sourced from Costa Rica. They include apple pieces, pineapple pieces, lemon verbena, cream caramel pieces, freeze-dried lemon granules, sweet blackberry leaves, marigold blossoms and flavouring.

Lemon Waffle is caffeine free, but it does contain milk and sugar. Something to keep in mind if you want or need to avoid them because of allergies or personal preferences.

This herbal tea is a very pretty blend. It looks playful and colourful, lemony and cheerful. If you love lemony sweets, this blend will win you over as soon as you open a pouch. It’s sweet and intense and reminds incredibly of lemony caramels.

Usually, intense scents don’t always imply intense flavours, and that’s ok. So how does Lemon Waffle taste like?

 

How to brew this blend?

To brew it, use one heaped teaspoon of leaves per cup of water, steeped at 98 degrees Celsius. The colour of brewed tea is as nice and the blend itself – beautiful yellow. You don’t feel any of the ingredients separately, there’s no intense apple, there’s no intense lemon, there’s no intense pineapple. Lemon Waffle is slightly sweet, with a buttery undertone, and a lemony touch. It offers a well rounded flavour, and a desire to have a cup more.

Although this tea is great hot, try it iced. You can add a tiny bit of honey and a few sliced fresh lemons too.

Who is likely to love this tea? Tea drinkers that enjoy strong flavours, lemony and fruity blends and don’t mind their tea being sweet and intense. It would be great for summer tea parties when you need a flavourful, caffeine free tea that’s easy to brew and tastes good even when it cools down.

 

Tea Recap

Water or Milk? Water

Day or night? Day

Hot or Iced? Both

Caffeine? No

Sweetened or Pure? Pure

What’s the price? Starting from 2.95 GBP for a 14-gram pouch

Where to buy? Get Lemon Waffle from BRUU website.

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