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Iced Tea Float Drink Recipe

1 1/2 cups Basic  Ice Tea (see below) 1 scoop Vanilla Ice Cream Pour tea into a glass half filled with ice. Top with a large scoop of ice cream and serve immediately. Basic Ice Tea: 4 cups hot water (use steeping temperature for tea of choice) 3 tbsp. loose leaf tea Pour hot water over tea in a heatproof container and steep covered for time appropriate for tea of your choice. Strain into a pitcher, discard the leaves and let cool to room temperature. Once cool refrigerate or serve over glasses filled with ice. Serve with a touch of sweetener if …

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THINKING ABOUT ICED TEA

Those hot, sticky, summer days will be upon us (but hey, it beats a blizzard!) and every day at Distinctly Tea, we get questions about making refreshing iced tea for a cool treat. Recipes for iced tea appeared as early as the 1800s in American and British cookbooks, typically using green tea and spiking them […]

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Fruit Vinaigrette

Using tea in your salad dressing adds flavour and cuts down on some of the calories. The added berries make it a nice thick dressing. Add a little more olive oil if you like it thinner.

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Quinoa Burgers

Make these meatless burgers as spicy as you like. Adjust the Sriracha Chili Sauce to your liking. The Smokey Taco seasoning mix along with cooking the quinoa in Lapsang Souchong Tea gives the burgers a slight smokey flavour. .

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Frosty Chai Shake

This shake can be made with either Rooibos Chai Latte Mix for a no caffeine version or Matcha Chai Latte Mix for a kick of caffeine and the goodness that Matcha has to offer. Add some vanilla ice cream for extra creaminess if dairy isn't an issue.

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Berry Cherry Iced Tea

This tea has great antioxidants from both the Green Tea and the mixed berries.

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Flowering Teas

Flower teas, a most unique art form of tea hand-made in China by skilled artisan hands.

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How To Choose Unflavoured Green Tea

We often have customers coming into the store asking "do you have a green tea that tastes good?"

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Peter’s Picks – Rooibos

Rooibos, (pronounced royboss), latin Aspalathus Linearis is South African for ‘redbush’ and is only Grown high in the mountains of South Africa, in unpolluted surroundings. Rooibos is extraordinarily rich in naturally occurring nutrients.

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Peter’s Picks – Green & White Tea

The Green & White Teas we carry in the store have a history dating back to 2006. The addition of White tea to the Green Tea created a blend that would help the steeping time and temperature hold up better for those ‘mistakes’ we all make when steeping a cup of tea - water too hot, steeping time to long, too much tea etc.