SaChasi – Maple Pecan Pie
OK, fact fans. Here are some stats comparing Sainsbury’s Maple Pecan Plait Danish pastry and SaChasi Maple Pecan Pie tea.
The maple pecan plait has 392kcal, 27 grams of fat and 31 grams of carbs. SaChasi Maple Pecan Pie tea has 1.3 calories, zero grams of fat and 0.7734 grams of carbohydrates.
And they taste almost indistinguishable from one another. Sure, one is a lot wetter than the other, but taste- and smell-wise, they’re absolute dead ringers.
I pulled those numbers for SaChasi’s tea out of my arse, obviously. But they sound about right. It’s got to be as near as dammit to no calories, with maybe a little bit of carbiness from infusing the date pieces nestling amongst the Ceylon orange perkoe, rooibos, apple, cacao husks, carob, lucuma, pau d’arco, vanilla, orange blossom and natural flavouring.
Not only is it almost certainly healthier, SaChasi Maple Pecan Pie tea is a lot easier to store, too. You shove too many Danish pastries in your cupboard, and they’ll probably go mouldy after a while. Instead, you could have a tin of the mapliest tea imaginable stored for months and ready to go when you want to feel like you are rolling around in maple syrup-flavoured luxury. Hey, you could probably add this tea to your bath and make that a reality if you wanted to. It would probably be a lot less sticky than using the real stuff.
This tea is, of course, based on a pie rather than a pastry, but I’ve never tried maple pecan pie. I’m sure it’s uncannily like that too.
As you can probably tell I am a massive fan of this tea. And not even because it’s healthy. I’d stuff a billion calories down my mouth soon as look at them, to be honest with you.
SaChasi is the reigning champion of producing Teas That Think They’re Cakes, as far as I am concerned. Bird & Blend might be more famous, and to be fair, they make a good stab at the genre, but SaChasi, I am sure, employs actual witchcraft to make teas that taste like something fresh from a bakery oven. That, or they regularly make sacrifices to the Greek God of Buns and Pastries in an appropriately shaped temple in their garden.
It’s probably down to the weird and witchy concoction of ingredients they use. I mean, tea and vanilla and bits of fruit are a given, but what on earth is that other stuff in there?
We’ve discussed the popular Peruvian fruit that is lucuma before. But what’s this pau d’arco business? OK, here’s what I’ve ascertained. Pau d’arco is made from the bark of Tabebuia trees. It’s made into a herbal tea known as Lapacho, which has unproven claims to heal literally everything.
I’m not sure what it’s achieving taste-wise in Maple Pecan Pie, but I’m sure it’s doing something crucial. Let’s face it, there’s got to be a lot of non-pecan and non-maple stuff doing some heavy lifting here. There aren’t any actual pecans or maples in this recipe. Frankly, I don’t care. SaChasi has captured their spiritual essence and bound it to the other ingredients like the Dark Lord Sauron infusing the One Ring with his power.
Or it’s covered by the ‘flavourings’. One or the other.
Today’s book pairing is Heroes by Stephen Fry.
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