gunpowder tea

High quality gunpowder tea will have small, tightly rolled pellets.

Gunpowder tea leaves are withered, steamed, rolled, and then dried.

The typical green tea used is a gunpowder tea variety imported from China.

When brewed, gunpowder tea is a yellow color.

When sold as a variety of tea, gunpowder tea has several varieties:

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Formosa gunpowder teas are typically fresh or roasted oolongs.

When buying gunpowder tea it is important to look for shiny pellets, which indicate that the tea is relatively fresh.

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Moroccan mint tea is made by adding mint and sugar or honey to gunpowder tea after brewing.

Gunpowder tea production dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) but it was first introduced to Taiwan in the 19th century.

In the Sahel region on the southern fringe of the Sahara, green gunpowder tea is prepared with little water and large amounts of sugar.

Gunpowder tea, its leaves being tightly rolled, keeps longer than the more open-leafed Chun Mee tea.

A popular tea, gunpowder tea, is poured three times in and out of a tea pot with mint and sugar into tiny glasses.

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Tea leaves may be left to dry as separate leaves or they may be rolled into small pellets to make Gunpowder tea.

Gunpowder tea is exported to the Maghreb where it is used in the preparation of traditional North African mint tea.

Rolled gunpowder tea leaves, which resist crumbling, are commonly vacuum packed for freshness in aluminised packaging for storage and retail.

Me, thought Will, seeing the guillotine flash, the Egyptian mirrors unfold accordions of light, and the sulphur-skinned devil-man sipping lava, like gunpowder tea.

Although the individual leaves were formerly rolled by hand, today most gunpowder tea is rolled by machines (though the highest grades are still rolled by hand).

Most chai in India is brewed with strong black tea, but Kashmiri chai is brewed with gunpowder tea.

The flavor of brewed gunpowder tea is often described as thick and strong like a soft honey, but with a smokey flavor and an aftertaste that is slightly coppery.

And for all of Downton's sundered hearts, miracle cures and ill-used valets, Dame Judi's "gunpowder tea" in Cranford may haunt the memory longer.

Taking Chan back to his office, he produced, via a brisk Chinese girl assistant, a rare gunpowder tea in cups so thin as to be almost transparent, and there they chatted of former times and present problems.

This contrasts with certain parts of the Maghreb and Sahara, where gunpowder tea has traditionally been used to make Touareg tea and the tea for the Moroccan tea ceremony.