Lady Gray (tea)
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| Type: | Black tea |
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| Origin: | United Kingdom |
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| Brief description: | Mild refreshing tea; flavored with orange and lemon peel and bergamot oil. |
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| Temperature: | min. 80 ° C |
| Amount: | 10-15 g / l |
| Time: | 3-5 min. |
Lady Gray is the name of a tea blend that consists of black tea . It is refined with orange and lemon peel and lightly flavored with the oil of the bergamot fruit. It is a variation of Earl Gray .
history
The tea variety was named after Mary Elizabeth Gray, the wife of Prime Minister Charles Gray (1830-1834), who was already namesake of Earl Gray.
Lady Gray's origins go back to the early 1990s with the British tea manufacturer Twinings . He created this mixture for tea drinkers for whom Earl Gray was too strong in taste. The original mixture contains - in addition to black tea - peels of bitter oranges (3%), lemons (3%) and bergamot oil. The cornflower is used as a jewelry drug , i.e. a filler, which is supposed to give the tea mixture a more appealing appearance through shape and color . Some tea makers use lavender instead of bitter oranges. As is customary in British tea culture , Lady Gray is occasionally drunk with milk to soften the taste.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entering the World of Lady Gray Tea. Retrieved June 24, 2013 .
- ^ History of Charles Gray 2nd Earl Gray. Government Digital Service, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Lady Gray. Trademarkia, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Harry Wallop: Lady Gray tea: fact file. The Telegraph, March 28, 2011, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Lady Gray. Twinings, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Connie Armstrong: The Oil of Gray. March 4, 2009, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Andrea Surkus: British ceremonies. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Lady Gray. Twinings, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ^ Tea time. Spiegel Online, January 9, 2007, accessed June 24, 2013 .