* Santa walking backwards!
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 20 – Rhubarb & Custard
This rooibos-based blend is as rhubarb-y and custard-y as anyone could wish for.
Rhubarb is a delightfully distinctive fruit flavour, isn’t it? I mean, there would be no mistaking it in a blind taste test unlike, say, apple, where you might be all “Is it pear? I’m getting hints of peach here”.
This tea contains rooibos, rhubarb, calendula, vanilla pieces and flavourings and they are all putting an excellent work here.
I’m not sure how Christmasy it is, mind. I mean, I love rhubarb as much as the next rhubarb-loving fool. But if someone served me rhubarb crumble after Christmas dinner, I might look at them askance. Apart from anything else, there’s simply wouldn’t be room for it after I’d polished off copious amounts of Christmas pudding and mince pies.
We really have been on a roll with these Bird & Blend teas lately. Every tea in the last five days has been an absolute smasher. Fingers crossed, it’s not going to be nettle tisanes and Vimto-flavoured hot squash from hereon in.
Tea Ranking
- Mince Pie (17th Dec)
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Chocolate Digestives (18th Dec)
- Snowball (18th Dec)
- Gingerbread Chai (16th Dec)
- Salted Caramel Lebkuchen (13th Dec)
- Panettone (11th Dec)
- Rhubarb & Custard (20th Dec)
- Banana Bread Chai (12th Dec)
- Fairytale of NY (9th Dec)
- Poppin’ Xmas Butter Toffee (6th Dec)
- Candy Cane (5th Dec)
- Winter Is Coming (4th Dec)
- Peppermint Hot Cocoa (3rd Dec)
- Mistletoe and Wine (14th Dec)
- Christmas Cranberry Pie (1st Dec)
- Cherry Cola Bottles (10th Dec)
- Mulled Cider (2nd Dec)
- Cold Weather Warrior (15th Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
Today’s featured book is still The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore, by the way. I haven’t been feeling the need to mention that everyday. We are literally at the end of the poem now though which is problematic as I don’t know what I am going to do for the next four days. Maybe I’ll just start again at the beginning?
