Posts tagged Rosebud
Our tea heroes this May: Lemon Verbena, Jade Oolong, Jade Cloud, Rosebud and Jasmine Pearls. Floral and fresh like the English countryside!
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Delicate and dainty pink rosebud shortbread biscuits
These heart-shaped biscuits are the perfect accompaniment to a cup of Wild Rose. The delicate scent of roses is so soothing and captivating that it will fill your afternoon with serenity.
Ingredients:
170 g soft unsalted butter
85 g caster sugar
170 g plain flour
85 g semolina flour
Dried rose petals (we use our rosebud tea, with pure pink rosebuds!)
Rosewater to taste
Preheat the oven to 160C
Beat butter and sugar until they’re well mixed. Add some crushed pink rosebuds and rosewater to taste. Sift flour and add quickly. But remember, don’t overbeat!
Refrigerate for an hour. Then you can roll and cut your shapes, transferring them to a lined tray. Bake for 12 minutes at 160C.
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Our beautiful February hero, Wild Rose. A perfect blend of White Peony (Bai Mudan) and pure pink rosebuds. Rich in antioxidants and vitamin C, soothing and indulgent, it feels like walking in the garden after the rain.
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We’ve added Lahloo’s rosebud tea to our lemon and polenta cake. Delicious and beautiful! We’re trying to decide what tea we’ll have with it. Earl Grey? Darjeeling afternoon?
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The writer’s fuel
November is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo, a nonprofit literary challenge that started in California in 1999 and that has now spread to more than 60 countries.
To help you through the days and nights of endless typing, tea will become your best friend. But choosing your cuppa is like choosing a book from the library! Too much choice? These are Lahloo’s recommendations to keep your mind clear and your spirit high!
Shou Vintage Pu-Ehr tea: Deep, earthy, sweet and soothing. A comforting and invigorating cuppa. Much like reuniting with an old adventure book that takes you in an incredible voyage, but makes you feel safe. Try it if you like… Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, The Adventures of Tintin.
Matcha green tea: This Japanese ceremonial tea is alluring, intense and complex, full of antioxidants and vitamins A, C, and E. Approach to it with reverence but also with a playful spirit, like you would do with a Shakespearean play. Try it if you like… the classics.
Mr. Shao’s Mao Jian green tea: Exquisitely delicate, with curly sea-green leaves from the misty mountains of China, this is a refreshing and revitalising brew that will give you endless energy. Try it if you like… Creativity at its highest: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Rosebud herbal tea: Delicate and beautiful, a relaxing treat for body and soul, this tea will help restore your inner peace and remind you of the beauty of things. Try it if you like… Lao Tze, Hermann Hesse or the Romantics.
Spice Chai: A blend of golden Assam tea with cinnamon, ginger, green cardamom, black pepper, bay and cloves, this will unravel the adventurer in you. Every pot is different, much like a journey to an exotic land. Try it if you like… A thousand and one nights, Dinesen’s Out of Africa.
And if you need a relaxed space to write while sipping any of these varieties, remember that we’ll be celebrating at Lahloo Pantry by getting inspiration from our favourite books. The game’s afoot!
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