La boîte à thé

With summer, what better than a delicious iced tea cocktail. Marie-France now offers a cocktail based on strawberry iced tea.

Ingredients for the preparation:

• 6 tbsp. tea or tea bags with berries
• 1 cup of boiling water
• Ice cubes
• 3 oz of gin
• 2 teaspoons fresh syrup
• 1 cup sparkling water
• Sliced ​​strawberry

How to prepare your cocktail?

Infuse tea 4 to 7 minutes in boiling water. Pour into a pitcher filled with ice cubes. Add gin, strawberry syrup, sparkling water and sliced ​​strawberries. Mix everything. Garnish the glasses with a strawberry and serve.

I had a sudden urge to make lemon iced black tea. After a few tries, Marie-France and I designed a cocktail made from tequila, rum and vodka. We called it Island Tea Cocktail! It is to consume with moderation!

Ingredients:

• 6 tbsp. tea or black tea bags with lemon
• 1 cup of boiling water
• Honey to taste
• Ice cubes
• 1 oz of brown rum
• 1 oz of tequila
• 1 oz of vodka
• 2 oz of triple sec
• 1 sliced lemon

The steps for preparation:

Infuse tea 4 to 7 minutes in boiling water. Add the honey and pour into a pitcher filled with ice cubes. Add rum, tequila, vodka, triple sec and sliced lemons. Mix it up, and garnish the lemon glasses, and you can enjoy your festive cocktail for the summer.

Summer is well established, the heat is presence, what better of a cocktail of iced tea to cool off. Here is a simple and original recipe to concoct: The Mentalime tea cocktail.

Ingredients:

• 6 teaspoons or tea bags with mint
• 1 cup of boiling water
• Honey (to taste)
• Ice cubes
• 3 oz of white rum
• Juice of 2 limes
• 1 cup sparkling water
• 8 mint leaves

The preparation steps:

Infuse tea 4 to 7 minutes in boiling water. Add honey and pour into a pitcher filled with ice cubes. Add rum, lime juice, sparkling water and mint leaves. Mix everything. Garnish glasses with lime wedges.

After the preparation, relax on your terrace with friends or a good book, with your iced tea cocktail.

"Discover a cloud of flavors ... That's what happened to me on a hot summer's night as I jumped together in my twenties. Invited by my lover's parents for an evening meal, the discussion is lively. As usual, everyone discusses and exposes their point of view. The atmosphere is light. Once again, his mother offers me a cup of tea to close the meal. Reflexively, I'm about to refuse and then change my mind and finally accept his offer. "I'm fine. This will be my second cup of tea for life. The first, a mint tea drunk after a trip to the Moroccan desert, did not particularly please me. The teapot is placed on the table. Yellow. The smell of tea that infuses is nice. A slight scent of rose floats. The taste will be the ally of the smell. I hope so. I am served. The cup and saucer are matched and drawn from the collection of a great-grandmother of British origin. I taste. First of all, lip service. A green tea with intoxicating pink that manages to make me smile. I enjoy this tender moment and let myself be rocked by the discussions. Today, I'm rocking you. "

Good tea!

Gaëlle

"To discover the tea ... That's what happened to me on a winter afternoon when I was seven years old. Buried and forced to pajamas and cuddly toys, my grandmother brings me a cup of Orange Pekoe tea with a hint of honey. Astonished, I first check that the flowery porcelain cup is good for me. "Yes, my grandmother confirms, it will do you good. As she said true! Here I am regarded as a great. I enjoy tea as a nectar previously forbidden. I like the taste. His warmth comforts me. Besides, my sore throat seems to be submitting to the superiority of my hot drink. I am well, relaxed and happy to access this little luxury. This moment is engraved forever in my memory. The rest is woven of exploration and discovery. Tea, as a second nature, accompanies me from morning to evening, on a trip, week or weekend, alone or with friends. Today, it is with you that I share it. Good tea! "

Marie-France