Tea 107: Week Two Recipe(s)!
So, this week we had two mandatory recipes to complete, and then several optional ones. The optional ones included Laphet (pickled tea salad), a cold infused tea juice, and marbled tea eggs. I didn’t make the marbled eggs though I may in the future though I did make the Laphet and tea juice. However, I’m going to post those tasting notes separately because they used tea from my own personal stash instead of the tea we’re set for class so I know exactly which teas were used.
Here’s my break down of the mandatory ones, though…
Earl Grey Creme Caramel Custards
This is definitely the tastiest thing I’ve made these last two weeks, and I’m not ashamed to say that I ate three out of four of the custards from this recipe in the span of like four hours. The fourth, my mom ate but had she not I’m sure I would’ve finished it too.
I know you can make Creme Caramel Custards from scratch but because I don’t have super wonderful cooking/baking skills I just picked up an instant mix from the dollar store and used that. In the future, I would like to try doing it by hand though ‘cause I’m sure these would taste better from scratch. To infuse the EG into the custard I just stuffed a tea filter with loose EG and added it to the sauce pan while I was boiling the milk. The tea just did its thing and steeped into the milk, naturally giving the custard a smooth Earl Grey flavour.
I will absolutely be making this again because it was just so easy to do and the flavour was so satisfying. I’d love to test out how other teas would pair with this as well: a malty and sweet assam or good Chai could probably be equally satisfying.
Matcha Icing
Matcha is so easy to cook/bake with, and anyone who’s been following me on Steepster for a while now knows that this is definitely something I’ve done in the past, but with RLT’s flavored matcha. I wont get into great detail about this one for that reason alone; it’s not something new to me. Suffice to say, I made a straight up matcha icing (no flavouring other than the icing itself) for some sugar cookies. Tasty, yes, but not as much as a RLT matcha.
