I prefer lady grey to earl grey myself. Again, sweetened with honey, I picked that up off my granny on my old man's side of the family I think. Added my own twist to it later, in that I found that making the tea with freshly made steaming hot lemon balm infusion and a little grated lime zest, pounding both the balm and the zest peelings in a mortar to release the essential oils and help fill the tea with that yummy aromatic goodness. Its best of all with the freshest, most tender tops of the balm whilst it is in full flower, so they are juicy and full of fragrant terpenoids, when the tops are young, but a little bit developed, so as to have had time to accumulate a decent proportion of essential oil within, and in flower so as to sweeten it with fragrant nectar,
Of course, served without any of that nasty moo-juice contamination or whatever it was that CBC calls 'half and half', or even worse, whitener. I only drink my tea black, without any such dairy contaminants. I don't have any problems with dairy produce in general on its own, but in tea, that is a travesty and a wronging of 'the natural order' whatever that is. I'm not entirely sure, but I know that milk in tea or coffee is defaecating all over it and covering the walls in which kitchen the brew was made with the word 'heresy!' scribed in turd. I can't quite define what its sinning against, but whatever it is, sins and vile heresies are being comitted against its name:P
I'm drinking a can of fosters.
