Ingredients 125g/5oz Marmalade 150g/6oz Butter or Margarine 150g/6oz Light Brown Sugar 200g/7oz Self Raising Flour 3 eggs ½ tsp Baking Powder 2 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp mixed spice Method Preheat oven to Gas Mark 4/ 180C/160 Fan Oven/ 350F Grease or line your loaf tin Whisk the butter, sugar and marmalade until light and fluffy Add the rest of the ingredients and whisk until smooth Pour into your lined loaf tin Bake for 1-1 ½ hours
Author: Treeca
In 1610 tea caught on in the West, The French East India Company established regular trade relations with the Far East, introducing tea to Holland in 1610, France in 1636 and England in 1650. In 1644, under the charter granted by Elizabeth I, the East India Company had been in contact with China since 1637, but tea only appeared on import documents in 1644.
In 1101-1125, Chinese Emperor Hui Tsung became tea obsessed and wrote about the best tea-whisking methods and held tea tasting tournaments in court. The story goes that he was so obsessed with tea that he didn’t notice the Mongol take over of his empire. At this time tea houses in gardens started to pop up around China.
In Australia the ancient Chinese tea ceremony is being used to teach young women the finer points of dressing, deportment and manners. An Oriental Teahouse is holding monthly seminars set around the Chinese afternoon tea, or yum cha. Apart from maximising the taste and aroma of the tea, the traditional Chinese tea ceremony is all about respect and this is something good for young people to learn, as well as being able to dress up and have some dumplings. “The Chinese afternoon tea really began 3000 years ago on the Silk Road – long before the English afternoon tea tradition…
I bet you didn’t realise that some of your common herbs which are used to spice up cakes and other recipes have many healing powers. Saffron has medicinal and culinary purposes and has been used to treat depression and those with mild to moderate ALzheimer’s disease. Tumeric is great for heartburn, bloating, bronchitis, liver and gall-bladder problems as well as menstrual cramps. Ginger has been used to treat nausea and inflammation for a number of years but has recently been found to reduce the strain on muscles after a workout. It has ingredients that can also help treat cases of…
Spearmint Tea has been shown to ease the pain of arthritis. According to a leading newspaper, researchers are prescibing two cups of tea a day for four months for people diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the knee. The tea in the trial which is still in undergoing clinical trials is extra strength, with high levels of rosmarinic acid which is an antioxidant which has been shown to have anti-inflamatory effects.
My blog friend Janet has written a beautiful post on ‘Afternoon Tea’ with pictures and her talented artists paintings which you should see and read. Visit http://janetweightreed10.blog.co.uk/2011/07/17/afternoon-tea-11491990/ to see and enjoy more. Thank you Janet for giving blog.co.uk your life in painting and exploring the ‘creative process’. You are one talented lady.
One of my local tea shops has been given another Tea Guild Award of Excellence. The Ollerton Watermill Tea Shop on Market Place, Ollerton, Nr Newark, Nottinghamshire is not far from me on the edge of Sherwood Forest and is the only water-powered mill working in Nottinghamshire. Its by the River Maun and was built in 1713 on the site of a mill mentioned in the Domesday Book. It was put back to work in 1921 with the Mettam family, who have been millers for many generations with a family that is traced back to 1635. It was restored in…
In the 1940’s the United Kingdom was considered to have the highest tea consumption in the world. The countryÂ’s love of tea is perhaps best represented by the tea card phenomenon which gripped the country during this period. Tea cards were illustrated cards contained in packets of loose tea leaves. They were meant to be collected by children as their parents bought tea for household consumption, these cards are now collectorsÂ’ items, many of which have been illustrated by renowned artists. Source: www.boh.com.my
Yes, according to the Daily Mail today a recent study has found that people who regularly drink tea and coffee are less likely to carry the potentially fatal MRSA superbug. Apparently some 1.4 per cent of the population naturally carry MRSA on their skin and noses which is harmless until it gets into cuts and causes infections. However, the study found that was 50 per cent lower among people who drank tea or coffee. The US research said that tea and coffee are healthy due to their ‘antimicrobial properties’. Good news for all us tea and coffee drinkers.
Warner Leisure Hotels are now holding tea tasting experiences among there many experiences. Alex Probyn who is a master tea blender who holds the tea tastings and blending workshops. He will show you how to use the slurping and spitting technique to identify different ingredients and flavours of up to 24 different varieties of teas. He will take you through the history of tea and explain the different types and manufacturing techniques. Then you will blend your very own tea, designed to fit your own tea tasting desires, which Alex will blend and send to you. The tea tasting also…
The Adobe Hotel in Chester is not like your ordinary Hotel with the setting for your afternoon tea being a bit different from the norm. Perched on top of this new designer Hotel, the Michael Caines Champagne and Cocktail bar is out to make an impression. With bold furnishings and dramatic photography of music icons by Brian Aris, whose work has feature in Vogue, LIFE and the National Portrait Gallery. If you get bored of staring out the portrait of moody looking Blondie, then you can gaze out of the floor to ceiling windows at the racecourse below. There’s even…
Ingredients 350g/12.5oz dried mixed fruit 2 packets of Raspberry High Fruit Dried Buttons (or similar raspberry dried fruit) 1/2 pint/10floz of Whittard’s Very Very Berry Caffeine Free Fuit Infusion using 3 x tea bags (or alternative fruit teas) 125g/4.5oz Brown Sugar 300g/10.5oz Self Raising Flour 1 beaten egg 1 Tablespoon milk Method Soak the dried fruit overnight in the hot fruit tea Preheat oven 160C, 325F or Gas 3 Line loaf tin with liner of greaseproof paper Mix all ingredients together including the tea and place into a 2lb (800g) loaf tin Bake for 2 hours or until sqewer comes…
Get some healthy green tea ice-cream from Haagen-Dazs – they say “our green tea ice cream is made from a highly sought Japanese Matcha green tea, a ceremonial tea prized for its intense yet delicate essence. enjoy its soothing green tea flavor enhanced with the richness of pure, sweet cream.” The nutritional information panel states that one half-cup serving contains 250 calories and 17 grams of fat. The ingredient list reads: cream, skim milk, sugar, egg yolks, green tea. or failing that make your own from this recipes http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/green-tea-ice-cream – you know how healthy it is for you !!!!!
In 1484 teaÂ’s popularity reaches a new height when Zen priest Murata Shuko introduced the Cha-no-yu or Hot Water For Tea ceremony, which celebrates the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of tea preparation and drinking. In 1560 the first European to encounter tea and write about it was Jasper de Cruz, a missionary on PortugalÂ’s first commercial trade journey to China. Portugal, the most advanced navy at the time, was the first European country to gain the right of trade with China. In 1773 American nationalists dump crates of tea from a British ship into the sea in protest over…