Cambric
Tea or Nursery Tea
Originating in France, Cambric Tea is a milky white tea that
was
named after the white Cambric Linen that was made in the city of
Cambrai. The English version, also known as Nursery Tea, uses milk
instead of cream.
A comforting Tea . . .
This
Cambric Tea is a nutritious, hot drink that doesn't contain
the usual stimlating effects of tea. Cambric Tea is perfect
for serving to children, to someone a 'little under the weather' and to
the elderley.
Cambric Tea
ingredients
Sugar -
approx 1 teaspoon per cup
Heavy Cream, warmed
Boiling
Water
Hot Tea, strongly brewed
method
Place sugar
in a cup, fill the cup to 2/3 with boiling water.
Stir to dissolve the sugar. Fill the last 1/3 of the cup with the
cream. Add a tablespoon or two of the strongly brewed tea to give a
white, light tea.
Nursery
Tea
Traditionally English, Nursery Tea was given to children in
their Nurseries mid-morning and mid-afternoon, for some much needed
sustained energy and vitality. When children sat down with their
mothers at teatime this white tea was what their mothers gave them to
drink.
ingredients
per cup
1 Cup of Milk
1 teaspoon Hot Tea,
strongly brewed
1 teaspoon Sugar
method
Heat milk,
add the sugar and stir to dissolve. Add the strong tea and serve.
Vanilla Nursery Tea
Make
Nursery Tea as per above. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract per
cup of milk, whilst heating. |
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