How to Make Blooming Tea

Tea lovers enjoy the striking flavor of different blooming tea recipes. There is a base blooming tea recipe that can be used with the variations to create teas such as Red Blooming Tea, Strong Man's Iced Tea, Blooming Tea Refresher and Soothing Lemongrass Blooming Tea. These are just a few of the rich tea recipes that you can make from blooming tea. Blooming tea varieties make unique gift items to give because they are served as floral arrangements inside clear teapots.

Things You'll Need

• 6 to 10 tea blooms (See "Tips" section) 4 cups water Glass cookware pot Wooden spoon Heat-resistant glass teapot

Instructions

1. Fill a glass cookware pot with 4 cups of water. Turn the burner on high heat. Bring the water to a rolling boil. Turn off the burner.

2. Place 2 to 4 tea blooms (depending how strong you want the blooming tea) in the water in the cookware pot. Submerse the tea blooms using a wooden spoon. Hold each bloom under the water for one minute. Remove the wooden spoon.

3. Steep the tea blooms for 5 to 10 minutes (depending how strong you want the blooming tea). Remove the pan from the heat source.

4. Make an attractive floral arrangement with the remaining tea blooms in the bottom of a heat-resistant teapot.

5. Pour the liquid from the glass cookware pot into the heat-resistant teapot. Serve hot or cold in tea cups.

Tips & Warnings

• Popular tea blooms include: Jasmine, Lily, Marigold and Globe Amaranth. Place a tea blossom in the bottom of a clear tea cup when serving blooming tea. Follow recipe instructions for making variations of blooming tea.

• Do not use nonstick-coated, metal or copper pots when making blooming tea. Doing so will ruin the flavor of this tea.

References

• Blooming Tea Recipes