la Vie Sirene volume 2 issue 5 - THE TEA ISSUE

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Attempt Three: All right, this is my final attempt. If it doesn’t work this time, I’m done! Boil, brew; add vinegar and alum powder. Let tea cool down before adding the eggs, stir and put in fridge if you’re going to let them sit for any length of time. I don’t remember exactly how long they sat before I checked them the first time, but boy oh boy what a difference the Alum powder made! I think I left them alone for at least six hours or more, before I took them out for the picture.

Links I used for instructions: • Link #1from eHow - How to Color Easter Eggs With Tea • Link #2 from Third Planet Food How to Dye Easter Eggs Naturally with Tea

The Green tea, Peppermint tea and Chamomile tea all colored yellow. One of the links said any tea with chamomile in it would do that. F.Y.I…most herbal teas have chamomile in them! The reddish brown is actually the Tetley black tea. The two greenish eggs, yeah, those were shockers. It was either the Blueberry and the Raspberry Zinger that came out with those colors or the Raspberry and the


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Tea Dances

4min
page 115

Siren Send-Off

9min
pages 128-132

Tea Gardens

7min
pages 112-114

Mongo Mango Couscous

6min
pages 109-111

Bonnie Ramsburg

10min
pages 105-108

Tea Leaf Iconography

13min
pages 102-104

Meridian Mer-Gyver

19min
pages 90-98

Tea Pairings

16min
pages 82-89

Tea Storage

1min
page 76

The Russian Caravan story

6min
pages 78-81

Empress Tea Company

12min
pages 68-75

The Legend of Blue Willow

6min
pages 60-62

Dagnen (continued from our last issue

2min
page 58

Tea-Dyed Eggs ............ by Bonnie Ramsburg

9min
pages 54-57

A Tea Story ................ by Stephen Thompson

10min
pages 50-53

Planting an Herbal Tea Garden

2min
pages 48-49

Tea ......................................... by Sarah Kluge

3min
pages 46-47

Life by the Cup - book review by Sanndi Thompson

3min
pages 44-45

by Stephen Thompson

7min
pages 41-43

Invitation to Tea ................... by Lyle Dagnen

4min
pages 39-40

Fool-proof Fairy Cake

6min
pages 36-38

Martin J. Manco

7min
pages 20-23

Worldwide Tea Traditions

5min
pages 31-32

The Japanese Tea Ceremony

15min
pages 12-19

New Zealand Pavlova

2min
pages 33-35

Pamela’s Tearoom

4min
pages 26-30

Ask the Afternoon Tea Expert 8 30, 42, 52, 65, 74, 86, 98, 108, 119, 122, 125

1min
pages 24-25

The Birth of Tea

1min
page 10

Tea Currency

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page 11
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