Lavender Tea
If you have tried lavender tea once and quietly decided it was not for you, it was almost certainly made with the wrong plant. Most lavender sold for drying is Grosso — tall, fragrant, and high in camphor....
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If you have tried lavender tea once and quietly decided it was not for you, it was almost certainly made with the wrong plant.
Most lavender sold for drying is Grosso — tall, fragrant, and high in camphor. Wonderful in a drawer. In a cup it tastes like a bar of soap, and there is nothing you can do about it afterwards.
This is Superblue: English lavender, grown in its own rows and cut for the kitchen. Low camphor, higher sweetness, picked young. It tastes floral, faintly honeyed, and like nothing you have to be polite about.
Making a good cup
- One teaspoon per cup. Less than a leaf tea — lavender behaves more like rosemary.
- Water just off the boil, around 95°C.
- Four to five minutes, then take the buds out. Ten minutes is how the other kind of lavender tea happens.
- Taste before you sweeten. Honey suits it. Sugar flattens it.
Caffeine-free, so it works late. Blends, iced and cold brew are here.
What it likes
Chamomile — the evening pot. Chamomile fills in underneath and takes the edge off.
Earl Grey — a few buds in with the leaves. Bergamot and lavender were always going to get along.
Mint — brighter, and better over ice.
Milk — brew it double strength, strain, then warm milk and a little honey.
Keeping it
An airtight tin, somewhere dark. Light is what takes the flavour, not time — a pretty jar on a sunny shelf will be flat by spring.
A food, not a medicine, and we make no claims for it beyond the cup. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, on medication or brewing it for a small child, ask a pharmacist rather than the internet.
Grown, cut, dried and packed on our farm in Richmond, British Columbia. The same lavender goes into our edible buds and lavender sugar.
Pickup & delivery
Free pickup is available at 8460 Steveston Hwy, Richmond, BC.
Free local delivery within Richmond, BC on orders over $100 CAD.
Shipping is available across Canada from our Richmond farm. Orders over $100 CAD ship free.
