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Arthur Dove’s Salted Caramel tea contains black tea, Himalayan pink salt, natural flavourings and that’s it. You can see the tiny pink rocks of salt nestling amongst the tea leaves, but sadly there doesn’t seem to be enough to go around. It’s a bit of a lottery whether you get one two or zero lumps of salt in one teaspoonful.
So it means that the saltiness of the salted caramel varies from cup to cup. I would have gone for more saltiness myself. I do like a salty, sweet combo and so it was a bit disappointing on the occasions when this tea was just sweet. I wondered if there might be some salt in the ‘natural flavourings’ but then figured that a salt-flavoured natural flavouring would just be, well, salt.
Himalayan pink salt has been ascribed all sorts of health giving benefits by Woo-Merchants which are all scientifically unproven bollocks. But, to be fair, Arthur Dove isn’t making any ‘Wellness’ claims for this tea. The primary function of the salt here is to make it taste salty, which is entirely reasonable.
And I presume that the reason that it is pink and Himalayan is to appeal to the hipster market. Which is not an insult, by the way. I rather like hipsters.
This is an enjoyable indulgent dessert of a tea and if I seem a bit unenthusiastic in my reviews, it’s just because I was expecting a bit more salt in my salted caramel. Maybe it’s because it’s the first thing in the tea’s name. Apparently, in my mind, it should be like 50% salt, 30% caramel and 20% tea.
It’s a good thing I’m not running a tea blending business, to be honest. Unlike Arthur Dove’s, my salted caramel tea would be utterly undrinkable.
Today’s featured book is Elinor Klivans’ Cookies. Arthur Dove always suggests a biscuit pairing for each tea. The suggested biscuit for this one is a custard cream.
