Blooming Tea Make A Great Gift
Camellia sinesis is a plant with its origins in southern Asia. While the name may not ring a bell it is the plant in which all teas are made. Whether black, white, green, or ooling the tea plant produces them all through specific processing. Tea is the most drunk man-made drink on the planet and makes a great tea gifts for friends. This beverage has traveled from Asia all over the world and across many cultures who have adopted it as an important part of society.
Tea leaves themselves contain over 700 chemical components from amino acids, to vitamins, to caffeine. One of the health effects of tea drinking is its role in normalizing blood pressure. While there is no scientific consensus on the health benefits of tea drinking, its use in a medical way is throughout cultures.
Throughout time, tea has been associated with higher classes in society and in fact there are a number of tea ceremonies across the world, the most notable of which is the Japanese tea ceremony. With a world of tea treatments and flavors available, a tea lover has hundreds of variations to taste in a variety of ways from bagged tea, to loose tea, to the more beautiful blooming tea.
Blooming tea is an event in and of itself. The addition of this bundle of tea to boiling water is a ballet of unfurling leaves and blossoms which impart a strong flavor when brewed.
These teas are harvested and then sewn together with cotton thread into various bundles and shapes while still damp. Many blooms are more than the tea that makes them up, usually scented with flower blossoms for a stronger flower. Standard blooms used in their construction include jasmine, lily, chrysanthemum, and hibiscus.
Creating a blooming tea can take anywhere from one to ten minutes depending on the shape wanted which can vary from small to large spheres, as well as cones. Once the sewing is complete and the forms have been made, the process that follows is similar to any tea creation.
Drinking blooming tea should involve a glass tea pot, acting as a window onto the show. The tea bundle begins to unfurl when boiling water is added. The effect is that of a suspended flower bloom. These tea creations can be re-used up to three times and due to their strong and exotic flavors should not be steeped very long.
Tea is at once a simple and egalitarian beverage that can imbue any situation with grace. As a gift, blooming teas offer an experience head and shoulders above the standard loose or bagged tea variety baskets.
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