SaChasi – Chocolate-Dipped Macaroons
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SaChasi is a teamonger who specialises in tea blends inspired by things you might find in a bakery or on the dessert trolley of a fancy restaurant. So they fit right in here at Tea Fancier Towers. I do love a pudding-inspired tea.
There are pros and cons with this approach, I reckon. Take this Chocolate-Dipped Macaroon tea. On the one hand, SaChasi are clearly onto a winner with a tea that contains chocolate and coconut. On the other, tea drinkers will inevitably compare this drink to an actual calorie-festooned chocolate-dipped macaroon. And that’s a challenging expectation to live up to.
Obviously, the experience of drinking macaroon-inspired tea is not the same as eating a biscuity cakey thing and picking bits of desiccated coconut out of your teeth afterwards. But my goodness, this tea really is wonderful. Tea, chocolate and coconut are beautifully balanced here and the contented smile this tea put on my face would have been a fairly succinct five star review in itself.
Just to be clear here, when I say ‘macaroon’, we’re talking about the proper Scottish dense coconutty cake and not those multicolour French meringue things that people usually call macarons, but which also get called macaroons on occasion, presumably just to confuse people.
A bit of internet research suggests that Scottish macaroon recipes originally contained potato. In fact, if you check out the Albert Bartlett Potato People website, you can find a macaroon recipe where the primary ingredient is mashed Rooster potatoes. SaChasi haven’t included any potatoes in their tea blend. Instead, this tea contains Sri Lankan Orange Pekoe, coconut, cocoa, mesquite powder, safflower, and natural flavourings.
Chocolate and coconut is one of the best taste combinations in the whole world. It just is. You know those people who don’t eat the Bounties in a box of Celebrations? Absolute Wrong ‘Uns. Those people definitely shouldn’t be allowed to have SaChasi Chocolate-Dipped Macaroon tea. They wouldn’t appreciate it. Me, on the other hand, I appreciated it immensely and enthusiastically. There may have even been some lip-smacking going on. I’m off to appreciate another cup of it right now.
Today’s featured book is Reflection: A Tale by Mrs Hofland (1826). I haven’t actually read this book but it starts with the line “Everyone, acquainted with both, is aware that a tea party in the country is very different from an assemblage of company similarly described in London”. Any book which mentions tea within the first ten words seems to me to be a book which has its priorities straight.
