How to Make Royal Milk Tea

My niece and I were watching the Chinese drama Love O2O and the girls in the series would be drinking or talk about how much they love to drink milk tea. After completing the series, I decided to try and make some as I love tea, and it looked delicious.

I looked around on Pinterest and found a tea recipe from Plum Deluxe that seemed easy to follow and similar to the one they had in the series.

Assam and Darjeeling were recommended, but I have also made this tea with Earl Grey.

Ingredients:

• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons Darjeeling tea leaves or 1/2 teaspoon Assam tea leaves or 2 teaspoons black tea of choice
• 1 and 1/2 cups milk
• 1/2 cup water
• Honey or sugar, to taste
• tea infuser

Directions:

1. Add the tea into a small bowl.
2. Boil some water and add a small amount to just coat the leaves in the bowl.
3. In the meantime, heat the milk and water in a small pot.
4. Just before the milk and water start to boil, add the moistened leaves and turn off the heat. Stir them with a spoon to mix them in.
5. Cover the pot and let sit for 4 minutes.
6. Give it another stir and then remove the bags and pour the milk tea into a teapot or mug of choice.
7. Sweeten with either honey or sugar if you’d like.

I loved it and it was super simple to make, it reminded me of how I make my Matcha Lattes. I do recommend using a throwaway bag to infuse the milk with the tea, as it is much easier to put the bags in the milk than trying to pour the milk through an infuser as sometimes heated milk has trouble trickling through. If all you have is tea bags, you can also substitute two tea bags for the teaspoons of loose leaf.

I also used my milk frother to froth it up, you don’t have to but I thought it added a little special something to it. Plus I love using my milk frother.

I highly recommend this recipe and have made it multiple times since (I don’t blog as fast as I drink tea).

For more tea posts, go to Spinach Puffs

For more Recipes, go to Wardrobe Green Bean, Potato Casserole

For more from Plum Deluxe, go to Blueberry Yogurt Oat Scones

The Picture of Earl Grey Tea Cookies

So I found this recipe on Earl Grey Tea cookies on Pinterest. It immediately grabbed my attention as the baker named them The Picture of Dorian Earl Grey Cookies. I love Earl Grey Tea and I love the book and film The Picture of Dorian Grey. So this was definitely a win for me.

When I did that tea with my friends a couple of months ago, I thought about making it but for some reason I thought you needed to freeze the dough and I didn’t have time for that. So I just forgot about it…until I purchased some The Picture of Earl Grey Tea from NovelTea Tins. 

I thought it would be perfect to use, but then worried that maybe the jasmine in The Picture of Earl Grey might not blend as easily, after all the recipe called for Earl Grey Tea with Lavender not jasmine and rose petals.

Hmm…

So I decided to try both teas out. The recipe makes a small batch, so it wasn’t too much effort to make a NovelTea Tin’s The Picture of Earl Grey Tea cookies and a batch of Tiesta Tea Victorian Earl Grey Tea cookies.

Tiesta Tea Earl Grey Tea on the left and The Picture of Earl Grey Tea on the Right

This recipe originally comes from The Dough Also Rises. 

Ingredients:

• 1/4 Cup of Butter
• 1/2 Cup of Sugar
• 1/4 Tsp of Baking Soda
• 1/2 Tsp of Vanilla
• A Few Twists of Salt (I did a few pinches)
• 1/2 Cup of Flour
• 1/2 Tsp of Loose Leaf Earl Grey Tea
• Lavender (optional)
• Milk

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Crush the tea with a mortar and pestle (I used the end of a rolling pin.)
3. Beat the butter and sugar together.
4. Add Vanilla and salt. Mix well.
5. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and tea (lavender as well if you adding it in.) Mix well.
6. If dough is too dry, add a little milk.
7. Create 1 inch balls of the dough, roll into sugar, and place on a cookie sheet (far apart, cookies spread.)
8. Bake for 6 minutes or until the edges are brown.
9. Cool for a few minutes and then transfer to a plate.

The Picture of Earl Grey Tea Cookies

 

Tiesta Tea Victorian Earl Grey Tea Cookies

 

The dough has no egg and did come out a bit dry, so I had to add some milk into it, just a little. So these cookies bake really fast. The original recipe said 10 minutes, but my cookies all burned. I had to bring the time down, finding 5 mins they aren’t baked through, and with 7 mins they burned-6 seemed just right.

But they were delicious. Both The Picture of Earl Grey and the Tiesta Tea Victorian Earl Grey Tea cookies came out wonderful! They were so good, I had to force myself to stop eating them.

I tried to stop myself so I wouldn’t overdo it with drinking Earl Grey Tea and eating Earl Grey Tea cookies, but I didn’t. I ate and drank far too much.

For more Earl Grey Tea Cookies, go to Lavender Earl Grey Tea Shortbread Cookies

For more cookie recipes, go to Ginger Cardamom Meyer Lemon Crinkle Cookies

For more recipes, go to Cucumber Sandwiches

For more tea posts, go to I Won the Kumi Crochet and Tea India Giveaway

Scottish Oat Scones

So at the end of last month, my book club met and discussed the book The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie. Typically we just have light snacks, but as I didn’t have to work due to the quarantine, I decided I would do a little tea party.

And eat scones!

We had egg salad sandwiches, ham and cheese sandwiches, french fries (pommes pont neuf), Scottish Oat scones, lemon curd, lemon crinkle cookies, and meyer lemon poppyseed cake. Instead of putting all the recipes in one post and making it too long, I decided to break it up and share each recipe separately so that if interested, you can make your own and eat it with a cup of tea and some Jane Austen.

Today’s scone recipe I found on pinterest, but originally comes from Lisa’s Kitchen. 

Ingredients:

• 1.5 Cups of Flour
• 2 Cups of Rolled or Steel Cut Oats
• 1/4 Cup of Sugar
• 4 Teaspoons of Baking Powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon of salt
• 1 Large Egg
• 1/2 Cup of Unsalted Butter (1 stick), melted
• 1/3 Cup of Milk

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and grease or line a baking sheet.
2. In a large bowl combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
4. In small bowl, beat the egg until frothy.
5. Now add butter and milk to egg, and whisk to combine.
6. Pour into dry ingredients and mix together until you have a soft dough.
7. Shape and pat the dough into two 6-7 inch circles.
8. Cut into 6-8 pie shaped wedges and bake 10-15 mins, or until golden brown.
9. Let cool for a few minutes.
10. Serve with butter and/or jam.

This were very good, but the dough was a little dry which made it hard to stick together, ad after they baked they crumbled. I think if I was to make them again I would add a little more milk.

Otherwise these were delicious! I could see making them again and again and enjoy them.

Or scones!

For more scone recipes, go to Irish Blueberry Scones

For more recipes, go to Ginger Cardamom Meyer Lemon Crinkle Cookies

For more tea parties, go to Meyer Lemon Poppyseed Cake

For more pinterest recipes, go to Iced Blackberry Infused Earl Grey Tea

Iced Blackberry Infused Earl Grey Tea

So I was on Pinterest and I spotted this recipe, and you all know how much I love Earl Grey tea.

I was so excited to make it as it sounded really good. So without further ado, let’s get right into this (by the way this recipe originally comes from ONE armed MAMA). 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Pint of Blackberries (~2 Cups)
• 1/2 Cup of Granulated Sugar (or any other alternative sweetener)
• 8 Bags of Earl Grey Tea (4 Tablespoons Loose Leaf Tea)
• 1/2 Cup of Cream or any dairy substitute

Directions:

1. Bring 5 cups of water to a boil.
2. Meanwhile, place berries in a large bowl with sugar.
3. Crush the berries into a thick jam-like liquid.
4. Sprinkle in tea or add tea bags.
5. Pour hot water over the fruit and tea and steep for 5 mins.
6. Place 5 cups of ice in a large pitcher and strain berry infused concentrate over ice.
7. The ice will immediately melt, diluting the concentrate and cooling the tea,
8. Serve in a tall glass with ice, and drizzle in a tablespoon, or more, of cream.

So I eagerly drank it…but this was horrible.

I don’t know what happened, but I ended up dropping it all down the drain. What a waste of blackberries.

It was so awful!

I will not be making this ever again.

For more recipes, go to Skinny Chai Tea Latte

For more tea posts, go to Blueberry Matcha Smoothie

Slow-Cooker Bread

Yum!

I love bread. I could eat it, non-stop.

So you probably saw this pic on facebook/instagram, about me making bread. Usually bread takes quite a bit of time, but my friend shared this post on pinterest with me about making bread in your crock-pot!

Huh?

It was delicious and easy, so I felt I should share. It originally comes from delish.com

Ingredients:

• 1 Envelope of Active Dry Yeast
• 1 Tbsp of Sugar
• 1.5 Cups of Lukewarm Water
• 3.5 Cups of Flour
• 2 Tbsp of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 Tsp of Salt

Directions:

1. Line a crock-pot with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, combine yeast and sugar.
3. Add water and stir until combined.
4. Add flour, olive oil, and salt; stir until combined and a shaggy dough begins to form.
5. On a lightly floured surface, knead dough until it becomes smooth and soft, about 5 mins.
6. Roll dough into a ball, then place in a slow cooker.
7. Cook on high until golden brown and cooked through, about 2 hrs.
8. Carefully remove bread from slow cooker.
9. To crisp up the crust, transfer bread to a baking sheet and broil until golden, 2-3 mins.
10. Let cool for 20 mins and serve warm or at room temp.

So delicious!!!!

For more recipes, go to Basic Shortbread

For more pinterest recipes, go to Blueberry Earl Grey Tea Smoothie