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What about the health benefi ts?
How to brew the perfect cup of tea
ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS AT DJ MILES
1 Use good quality tea
2 Let the cold water tap run for a few seconds
3 Empty the kettle of any residual water
4 Fill the kettle with freshly drawn cold water and switch on
5 Rinse out your teapot and pop in the microwave for seconds to warm through.
6 Use 1 teabag (or 1 teaspoon of loose leaf tea) for 2 cups, 2 teabags (or 2 teaspoons of loose leaf tea) for 4 cups well positioned in the bottom of the pot
7 Slice your lemon, or decant a little milk into a jug
8 Bring the teapot to the kettle and when it comes to a good boil pour into the teapot. Stir and wait 3 to 5 minutes
9 Using the milk or lemon fi rst, pour yourself a lovely cup of tea
10 Retire to your favourite chair, bringing one or two biscuits with you
Once the tea is in our
warehouse we are able to use it, but it may be many months before we do so. This is because we buy when the season is right. In the case of our Assam teas from India we will be only buying in the months of June, July and August. We need to have bought enough tea of this type in the three months of activity to last us until the following season. We buy half of our Assam tea in vacuum packed cartons so that when the time comes to use the tea it is as fresh as the day it was packed. A few of our teas will be sold on as single estate teas, but most will be blended together to allow us to have a consistent product to sell. Some of our blends are complex and can have 12 to 14 different components. Each blend takes us many days
to refi ne, where we are tasting and making small changes over and over again.
The health benefi ts of tea have been under discussion since the eighteenth century. Today we know that tea is packed with antioxidants that can help to maintain your health as part of a balanced diet and healthy, active lifestyle. To fi nd out more about how healthy your cuppa really is we turned to Bristol based ATTIC tea, which stands for All The Tea In China. Anne and Ric at ATTIC are passionate about the health benefi ts of tea and even offer a range of fi ve teas, titled Teatox. Here’s what they had to say: “As well as tasting great, science has shown that white tea is very high in anti oxidants whilst green tea signifi cantly lowers blood pressure and cholesterol. Oolong tea boosts your metabolism and black tea reduces stress and signs of aging. Then there’s Pu’erh tea, which helps your body to detoxify everything from ingested to environmental toxins. “These teas, when drunk daily,
can offer you an easy way to support your body and its natural processes, boosting your health. The trick is to choose the ones that will benefi t you the most.”
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