Re: herbs and spices; OT

I, too, have a favorite spiced tea recipe:
    Steep one herbal tea bag (orange pekoe is nice) into a cup filled 3/4
with hot water.
    Remove bag.
    Fill cup to brim with Grand Marnier.
Yum!

Janet

on 12/30/2002 5:12 PM, cathy carpenter at cathyc@rnet.com wrote:

> Everyone needs a good spiced tea recipe (NOT the one that includes
> Tang)! Winter is not winter for my daughters unless I make this.
> 
> Spiced Tea
> Put 8c water in a 4qt pot
> Put 2c water in a small saucepan
> In the saucepan, boil water. Then turn off heat and steep 7
> bags of black tea for a full 5         minutes
> In the 4 qt pot, add 2 cinnamon sticks, 8 cloves and 1c sugar, and
> bring water to boil,         dissolving sugar. Add 1c orange juice (not
> fresh squeezed) and the juice of 2 lemons.
> When the liquid again approaches a boil, reduce heat to low
> and add the the steeped
> tea.
> Serve and enjoy. (For Russian tea, add some rum to each cup - and
> no, I don't know why rum
> instead of vodka)
> *To store for longer than a couple hours, remove the cloves and
> cinnamon sticks, or the taste
> will become quite medicinal.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 03:23 PM, Pamela J. Evans wrote:
> 
>> Ok Cathy - I'll bite!  What's the recipe?  You can send it to me off
>> list if you think no one else would be interested!!
>> 
>> Pam
>> gardenqueen@gbronline.com
>> 
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:23:29 -0600
>> 
>>> I have a killer spiced tea recipe...
>>> Cathy
>>> On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 01:23 PM, Josh Haskell wrote:
>>> 
>>>> And beer (with hops) is a spiced drink?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "James R. Fisher" <garrideb@well.com>
>>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 2:11 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] herbs and spices; OT
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> David Franzman wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In general though herbs are leafy plants whose leaves are used
>>>>>> either
>>>> whole or
>>>>>> crushed.  A spice is a seed or bark of certain or plants.  I can't
>>>>>> think
>>>> of an
>>>>>> exception to that right now but I'm sure there are some.
>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> Hmm. I agree, but at that rate Tea is an herb and Coffee a spice...
>>>>> -jrf
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jim Fisher
>>>>> Vienna, Virginia USA
>>>>> 38.9 N 77.2 W
>>>>> USDA Zone 7
>>>>> Max. 105 F [37 C], Min. -0 F [-17 C]
>>>>> 
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>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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