* Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow! **
** I have given up on the idea of trying to incorporate numbers into Christmas songs for my blog post titles. For the rest of Advent, you are getting Christmas cracker jokes.
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 11 – Panettone
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It’s a green tea today! Amazingly, we’ve got to the 11th of December and this is the first green tea we’ve had. (We’ve not had a white tea or an oolong yet either. So far it’s been black teas, Rooiboses, and fruity tisane nonsenses all the way.)
So I was happy to see just here Panettone blend, which contains not one but two green teas – a Chinese Sencha and a Chinese Chunmee.
It’s also got apple pieces, rosehip, hibiscus and citrus peel, making it, I think, the fourth tea so far in this advent calendar to contain that particular set of ingredients. Bird & Blend are clearly keeping the world’s hibiscus and rosehip producers in business.
This is a lovely tea. There’s a buttery cakey vibe here which sets off the green tea flavours beautifully. We’re putting up the Christmas decorations today here at Tea Fancier Towers. I’m also going to ice the Christmas cake.
Times have moved on since the “Pah, Christmas is aaaages away” days of opening the first advent box. It is, as someone once said, beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Tea Ranking
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Panettone (11th 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)
- Christmas Cranberry Pie (1st Dec)
- Cherry Cola Bottles (10th Dec)
- Mulled Cider (2nd Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
Today’s book continues to be The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore. He’s made it down the chimney now!
