Red And Black Iced Tea

This iced tea recipe is perfect to cool off this week. Super simple and very refreshing iced tea great for summer.

Ingredients 

• 3 Equal Exchange Organic Rooibos teabags
• 3 Equal Exchange Organic Black tea bags
• 36 oz. water (4.5 cups) 

• Directions 
  Boil water, remove from heat source, let tea steep in the water for 5-7 minutes, then remove bags. Let the tea water sit at room temperature to cool. Then pour over ice in glasses and serve! (Makes 6 Servings)

  *Tea/water ratio:Use 1 bag of tea for every 6 oz, for regular strength (but you can always brew 1.5 strength to account for ice meltage).

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SRC: equalexchange.coop/recipes/red-and-black-iced-tea

Iced Peach Rooibos Punch

Enjoy National Iced Tea Month with this delicious but light recipe. Fruity and sweet this dink is perfect to kick off summer.

Ingredients 

2 c. Equal Exchange Organic Rooibos, brewed strong and cooled to room temperature
2 c. peach juice
1 lemon, thinly sliced
2 peaches, thinly sliced
a handful of fresh mint leaves 

Directions 

Combine ingredients in a large container and stir well. Serve over ice. 

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SRC: equalexchange.coop/recipes/iced-peach-rooibos-punch

Be On The Go With T-Sleeve!

t-sleeve allows you to take your favorite teas with you on the go with out having to worry about the mess. Here's how:

Step by step instructions for t-sleeve®:

1. Place your favorite tea bag and packaged sweeteners into t-sleeve®. Close pouch and take it on the go.
2. Prior to steeping the tea, remove tea bag from pouch. Feed tea tab through opening at top.
3. Steep the tea, allowing t-sleeve® to rest outside of cup on string and tea tab
4. After steeping, pull tea tab up, drawing tea bag into the t-sleeve®.
5. Once the tea bag is inside, fold in half and squeeze the residual liquid into cup.
6. Discard the pouch/tea bag into trash receptacle or compost container.
7. Enjoy your cup of tea!

The goal of t-sleeve® is to be not only a convenient way to enjoy tea, but to be as eco-friendly as possible. Both the box packaging and t-sleeve® are recyclable. Once t-sleeve®  comes in contact with the moist tea bag, it becomes a compostable product.  Feel good about doing your part for the environment and reducing your carbon footprint.

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Moroccan Mint Iced Tea

This refreshing recipe is perfect for the start of summer. 

Ingredients  

3 teaspoons sugar
2 Equal Exchange Organic Mint Green Teabags
Ice
Cold water 

Directions 

Pour sugar into a glass and place tea bags in the glass so that they are at the bottom. Pour just enough hot water to cover the tea bags. While steeping, gently stir the sugar to dissolve in the water. Take out the tea bags after no more than 1 1/2 minutes, then add ice to fill the glass. Pour in cold water, stir, and enjoy! Makes one serving.
Optional: Garnish with fresh mint leaves.

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SRC: equalexchange.coop/recipes/moroccan-mint-iced-tea 

Sparkling Raspberry Lime Iced Rooibos Tea

Enjoy the first day of summer with this delicious iced tea recipe!

Directions 

Steep 2 rooibos tea bags in 1 cup hot water for 3 minutes.

Remove tea bags, squeezing out excess tea water into the cup. Let cool.

Add ice, raspberries and juice, simple syrup, and seltzer to cup.

Squeeze limes and add to drink.

Mix well.

Serves one (16 oz.)

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SRC: equalexchange.coop/recipes/sparkling-raspberry-lime-iced-rooibos-tea 

Go Mess Free With t-sleeve!

Enjoy your tea mess free, with t-sleeve! It allows you to take your favorite teas on the go, without the mess!

T-sleeve® is a brand new, complementary product for tea drinkers who use tea bags. T-sleeve® was created from a vision to enjoy a mess-free, tea drinking experience. 

This handy design starts as a carrying pouch for your favorite tea bag and package sweeteners. Take it with you on the go to work, a restaurant or meeting a friend for a cup of tea. T-Sleeve® then becomes a tea bag squeezer when you steep your tea. After you have steeped the tea, simply pull the tea bag up into the t-sleeve®, fold and squeeze the residual liquid out, and then discard. There’s no mess, no wet fingers and no drippy tea bag. T-Sleeve® is made of recyclable and compostable materials, so simply dispose of the t-sleeve® and tea bag into the garbage or compost container. T-Sleeve® will compost, so you can feel good about making a difference in the environment. 

One more way to feel good when you use a t-sleeve® is the lives you will touch just by enjoying a mess-free cup of tea. We are dedicated to enriching lives, not just enhancing your tea drinking experience. We will be putting our profit to a good use. Ten percent of all net profits of the original t-sleeve® will go to help Foster Children both locally and nationally. T-Sleeve® was specifically created to help others through charities that enrich lives, sharing love, hope and faith person to person.

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Fresh Peach Iced Tea

This recipe is perfect to cool off and enjoy National Iced Tea Month!

Fresh Peach Tea

Serves 8

Ingredients

4 large ripe peaches, divided
4 cups cold water, plus more for serving
4 family-sized tea bags or 16 regular-sized tea bags of black tea 
1 cup granulated sugar
Fresh mint sprig

Directions

1. Halve two of the peaches, removing the pits. cut into 1/2-inch slices. Place in a single layer on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze for at least 4 hours until solid, or overnight.

2. In a medium-sized saucepan, bring 4 cups of cold water to a rolling boil. Remove from the heat and add the tea bags. Cover and allow the tea to steep for 12 minutes.

3. Remove the tea bags and add the sugar, stirring until completely dissolved.

4. Peel, pit, and cube the remaining two peaches. Purée with the lemon juice in a food processor or stand blender. Push through a fine-mesh strainer to remove pulp.

5. Pour the peach purée into a 2 ½-quart pitcher along the sweetened tea. fill to three-quarters full with added cold water. Stir well and chill.

6. Serve in decorative glasses, using the frozen peach slices in place of ice cubes. Garnish with mint.

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SRC: www.instyle.com/lifestyle/food-drink/recipes/melissas-southern-cookbook-fresh-peach-tea-recipe 

Acai Berry Cranberry Tea Sherbet

Everyone in your family is sure to love this great ice cream! Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Paleo, Vegan, Vegetarian, this ice cream matches everyone's dietary needs.

Makes around 2 pints

2½ cups organic coconut milk

Seeds and pod from 1 vanilla bean

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

Zhena’s Gypsy Tea Acai Berry—use 2 tea sachets

1¼ cups raw coconut nectar or coconut sugar

4 drops orange essential oil–optional

3 cups fresh cranberries

1 small banana—organic or fair-trade

1. In medium saucepan add coconut milk, pod and seeds from 1 vanilla bean, and cinnamon and stir to combine.  Bring mixture to a low simmer on medium heat. Once milk is hot add the tea sachets and stir. Turn heat to low and let tea steep for 3–5 minutes. Remove vanilla pod and tea sachets from coconut milk and stir in coconut nectar  or coconut sugar and orange oil.  Cool tea infused milk for around 10 minutes.

2. Add cooled milk into blender container with cranberries and banana. Blend sherbet until smooth. Taste and add more agave or coconut nectar if you like the sherbet sweeter. Strain sherbet thru fine-mesh strainer to remove any cranberry skin. Chill sherbet for at least 4 hours or overnight. Pour chilled sherbet into a chilled ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer’s directions. Enjoy immediately.

3. If you don’t own an ice cream maker, chill the tea infused coconut milk and use frozen cranberries and banana. Blend ingredients in blender until smooth and sherbet can be consumed immediately after blending. It will have the consistency of soft-serve ice cream. If you like it firmer, place in airtight containers and freeze until firm. If you store the sherbet in the freezer, make sure you place in refrigerator for 15 minutes to soften before eating because sherbet will become very hard in the freezer. Sherbet lasts for 3 weeks covered in the freezer.

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SRC: aharmonyhealing.com/acai-berry-cranberry-tea-sherbet/

Enjoy your tea mess free!

Enjoy your tea mess free, with t-sleeve! It allows you to take your favorite teas on the go, without the mess!

T-sleeve® is a brand new, complementary product for tea drinkers who use tea bags. T-sleeve® was created from a vision to enjoy a mess-free, tea drinking experience. 

This handy design starts as a carrying pouch for your favorite tea bag and package sweeteners. Take it with you on the go to work, a restaurant or meeting a friend for a cup of tea. T-Sleeve® then becomes a tea bag squeezer when you steep your tea. After you have steeped the tea, simply pull the tea bag up into the t-sleeve®, fold and squeeze the residual liquid out, and then discard. There’s no mess, no wet fingers and no drippy tea bag. T-Sleeve® is made of recyclable and compostable materials, so simply dispose of the t-sleeve® and tea bag into the garbage or compost container. T-Sleeve® will compost, so you can feel good about making a difference in the environment. 

One more way to feel good when you use a t-sleeve® is the lives you will touch just by enjoying a mess-free cup of tea. We are dedicated to enriching lives, not just enhancing your tea drinking experience. We will be putting our profit to a good use. Ten percent of all net profits of the original t-sleeve® will go to help Foster Children both locally and nationally. T-Sleeve® was specifically created to help others through charities that enrich lives, sharing love, hope and faith person to person.

Click here to get t-sleeve today!

Rose Tea Jam

This recipe is perfect with your favorite pastry and a cup of your favorite floral tea. Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 8 cups water
• 6 whole, dried or fresh, red hibiscus flowers
• ½ cup dried or 1 cup fresh heavily scented organic rose petals
• 1/8 cup dried or ¼ cup fresh chopped rose hips
• 1 pear, dried or fresh
• ¼ cup dried or ½ cup fresh black currants (elderberries can be a great substitute)
• 1 apricot dried or fresh
• 1 apple dried or fresh (pink lady or other highly scented mottled apple works best)
• 1 peach or nectarine dried or fresh
• Juice of 1 raw lemon
• Zest of 1 organic unwaxed lemon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 cups sugar
• 2 packages pectin

Directions

1. Wash, core, and cut fruit into ¼ inch pieces. If using dried, simply rinse and cut into ¼ inch pieces. And carefully cut up hibiscus flowers using scissors.
2. Bring 4 cups of water, rosehips, and hibiscus flowers to a boil.
3. Simultaneously, bring the other 4 cups of water and the sugar — also add all the dried fruit IF using dried fruit — to a boil in another sauce pan.
4. Allow both to boil for about 3 minutes stirring continually.
5. Remove from both heat and add rose petals to the hibiscus tea we just made.
6. Add fresh fruit to the pan of sugar water and stir vigorously for about 1 minute.
7. Allow both pans to cool for about 5 minutes, or more if you want a stronger jam.
8. If you prefer to filter the flowers from the tea, do so now. I prefer the rich flavor they bring the jam by leaving them in.
9. In a glass bowl large enough to hold 6 cups of liquid plus 4 cups fruit, add both pans of hot liquid.
10. Stir in lemon peel, lemon juice, and vanilla extract until fully incorporated. Add pectin and stir until fully dissolved.
11. Scoop into jars that have been boiled clean and allow ¼ inch space between mix and the rim of the jars. Make sure all air pockets have been filled with liquid to prevent spoilage.
12. Wipe the rim of the jars clean and add lids and rims, tightening them hand-grip tight.
13. Boil for 10 minutes and allow to rest in hot water for another 10 minutes after removing it from heat.
14. Pull jars from pan using jar tongs and set them on clean, dry towels. If they touch anything cold or wet they will explode.
15. Store jam in the refrigerator or cold, dark place for up to a year. Label your jars!

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Chai Bundt Cake Recipe

Chai flavors never tasted so good! Enjoy this delicious recipe for Chai Bundt Cake.

Ingredients

CHAI BUNDT CAKE

• 3 cups all-purpose flour (plus additional for dusting pan)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter (softened, plus additional for greasing pan)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups sour cream

STREUSEL

• 1/2 cup light brown sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon finely ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup candied ginger (finely chopped)
• 4 tablespoons butter (chilled and diced)

CHAI GLAZE

• 1/2 can sweetened condensed milk (14 ounces)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
• 2 tablespoons chai tea (brewed and cooled)
• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

step-by-step directions

• For the Cake: preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease bundt cake pan with butter and dust with flour, set aside.
• In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk to combine.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the butter and sugar and beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla bean paste and eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
• Add flour mixture alternating with sour cream to the stand mixer, beginning and ending with the flour. Pour half of the mixture into the bundt pan. Sprinkle streusel evenly over the batter. Top with the remaining cake batter.
• Bake in the oven for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes. Remove from the oven to a baking rack and allow to cool 10 minutes in the pan. Turn out of the pan and allow to cool completely. Top with the chai glaze. 
• For the Streusel: in a medium bowl, add the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, salt, black pepper and candied ginger and mix to combine. Add the butter and mix with hands to form pea-sized crumbles. Set aside.
• For the Glaze: in a medium bowl, add the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla bean paste and whisk to combine. Add chai tea and whisk to combine. Add powdered sugar until thickened and a thick glaze. Drizzle over the top of the cake.
• Tip: enjoy with a cup of hot black tea!

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T-Sleeve Gives To Charity

t-Sleeve is committed to change, one cup of tea at a time. You can feel good knowing that not only is our product recyclable and that we give back to our communities.

The vision for t-sleeve® came with the intent to give back to our communities and enrich lives through faith, love, hope and care for humanity.

This first version of t-sleeve® will give 10% of net profits to help Foster Children locally and nationally. Our charitable foundation plans to seek out community resources that assist in helping foster children. This could be foster care and stable home environments, events or activities for foster children or other options outside of local, state or federal government programs. This commitment will provide faith, love, hope and care to foster children in ways they may not otherwise experience in their daily lives. 

Please go to our contact us page if you know of an organization in your community that could use assistance to help local foster children lead happier and more enriched lives.

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 We are committed to making a difference, one tea bag at a time. Click the link to learn more about t-sleeve and charities.

Ginger Lemon Tea Cookies Recipe

Tea cookies were literally made for tea: it's in the name! Enjoy this recipe for Ginger Lemon Tea Cookies to go with your favorite cup.

Makes about 15 cookies

Cookie

• 8 ounces unsalted butter, soft
• ¾ cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons ginger, grated or minced
• ½ teaspoon lemon zest
• 2 egg yolks
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt

Topping

• 2 tablespoons candied ginger, finely chopped

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar on medium speed until fluffy. Add grated ginger and lemon zest; mix until incorporated. Add the egg yolks and vanilla extract, mixing until combined. In a bowl, sift together flour and salt; add to mixer. Mix on medium to low until dough just comes together Roll into balls slightly larger than a golf ball. Place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Press gently with your hand to flatten to about ¼-inch thick. Top with diced candied ginger (gently press to keep ginger from falling off). Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies have just turned lightly golden.

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SRC: www.courier-journal.com/story/life/food/recipes/2016/05/31/ginger-lemon-tea-cookies-flour-de-lis/84288866/