T2 – Bread and Butter Pudding
I’m not given to quoting teamongers’ blurbs in these reviews. However, I’ll make an exception in this case. T2 describe their Bread and Butter Pudding tea as having “wafts of buttery cinnamon” which “mingle with delectable caramel chunks and custard notes”.
And you know what? I think that’s absolutely spot on. This tea is buttery! it’s cinnamon-y! It’s caramel-y! It’s custard-y. It’s the whole nursery-pudding-in-a tea-mug package.
Bread and butter pudding is a quintessential English dessert which has been around since at least 1728 when the recipe was included in Eliza Smith’s The Compleat Housewife.
It’s presumably popular with Antipodeans as well, given that T2 is an Australian company. The blurb says that this tea “tastes as good as grandma’s own recipe”. And Granny T2’s recipe must have been very good indeed if this tea blend is anything to go by.
The ingredients are black tea, grapes, carob, cinnamon chicory root, caramel bits, amaranth, vanilla and flavourings.
It took me a second to process the ‘grapes’ part of the ingredients list. They mean raisins. And yes, I know that raisins are dried grapes, but it’s still a bloody odd way to refer to them. I’m pretty sure you don’t see ‘grapes’ cited as an ingredient on Garibaldi biscuits or jars of mincemeat.
That’s a small niggle, which in no way detracted from a delightful experience. I love a dessert-based tea and T2’s Bread and Butter Pudding delivered handsomely, with its fruity, custard-y puddingosity.
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