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Sunshine Lemon Rooibos
ROOIBOS 50g
GRADE – Choice Grade #1
CAFFEINE/ANTIOXIDANT LEVEL: Caffeine free herb/ Medium
Cup characteristics: Lemon invigorates the rooibos taste. Simply wonderful hot or iced and dressed with a slice of lemon.
Luxury ingredients: Rooibos, Lemongrass leaves, Calendula petals, Natural flavours.
£ 5.50
In stock
PRODUCT ID: 461
Description
Sunshine Lemon Rooibos
Lemons. All refrigerators have them. Most of us don’t give them much thought. Not so Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. In his poem ‘Ode to a Lemon, he describes the juice of the fruit as ‘unrefined gold, the most intense liqueur of nature, unique, vivid, concentrated.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. The juice of lemons is at once sour, piquant and as it was so eloquently put, intense. So what do you think we do when we encounter this tea blend? We can’t keep that a secret of course!
This time we’ve offered for you the natural essence of sun kissed lemons with a pure South African Cederberg Rooibos. The result is a caffeine free delight. The cup presents mellow, exceptionally smooth Rooibos tones wonderfully offset by the tart citrus edge of the fruit. Were Pablo Neruda alive today there is no doubt he would have composed a poem about this tea. It may have gone something like this: Wow, that’s yummy stuff. OK, maybe not…
But Sunshine Lemon Rooibos – it’s the natural essence of sun kiss!
A 200 ml (about 7oz) of brewed Rooibos contains nutrients such as: Iron, essential for transport of oxygen in the blood, Potassium, Calcium, necessary for strong teeth and bones, Copper, Zinc, necessary for normal growth and development of healthy skin, Magnesium, Fluoride, necessary for strong teeth and bones, Manganese and Sodium, necessary for fluid and acid-base balance.
HOT BREWING METHOD:
Bring filtered or freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil. Place 1 slightly heaping teaspoon of loose tea for each 7-9oz / 200-260ml of fluid volume in the teapot. Pour the boiling water into the teapot. Cover and let steep for 3-7 minutes according to taste (the longer the steeping time the stronger the tea). Add milk & sugar to taste. Ideal Brewing Temperature: 100ºC/212ºF.
ICED TEA BREWING METHOD
(Pitcher): (to make 1 liter/quart): Place 6 slightly heaping teaspoons of loose rooibos into a teapot or heat resistant pitcher. Using filtered or freshly drawn cold water, boil and pour 1¼ cups/315ml over the rooibos. Steep for 5 minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the brewed rooibos into your serving pitcher, straining the rooibos or removing the bags. Add ice and top-up the pitcher with cold water. Garnish and sweeten to taste. A rule of thumb when preparing freshly brewed iced rooibos is to increase the strength of the hot rooibos brew since it will be poured over ice and diluted with cold water.
(Individual Serving): Place 1 slightly heaping teaspoon of loose rooibos into a teapot for each serving required. Using filtered or freshly drawn cold water, boil and pour 6-7oz/170-200ml per serving over the rooibos. Cover and let steep for 5 minutes. Add hot rooibos herbal tea to a 12oz/375ml acrylic glass filled with ice, straining the rooibos or removing the bags. Not all of the tea will fit, allowing for approximately an additional ½ serving. Sweeten and/or add lemon to taste. A rule of thumb when preparing freshly brewed iced rooibos is to increase the strength of hot rooibos since it will be poured over ice and diluted.
We strongly recommend using filtered or freshly drawn cold water brought to a rolling boil when brewing all types of tea. Today’s water has been known to carry viruses, parasites and bacteria. Boiling the water will kill these elements and reduce the potential incidence of water-borne illnesses.
