Tea Review: Mrs. Baird's Blend from Geeky Teas
My Aunt gifted me this tea earlier this week and this morning I got around to making myself a cup. That cup was swiftly followed by making myself an entire pot. This is, quite simply, the BEST cup of tea I've had in years. This blend of Ceylon, Black Keemun and Assam was a sense memory trip down memory lane. Years and years ago, I did a homestay stint in England with a Girl Guide family. As part of my time there, they took me to the Cotswolds on a Sunday visit to their granny in the country. There, in a home that looked straight out of a BBC tv show about nosey old country ladies discovering dead bodies in their village churchyard, Mrs. Brown poured me a cup of tea. The pot was solid blue ceramic covered in a floral cozy that had seen better days. The mug was brown ceramic and after she poured in the tea she added cream and sugar before passing me the cup and a little plate with shortbread biscuits on it. The flavour of that cup of tea she poured me has been my benchmark and