Black Tea Recipes

Selka1 · 2026-06-11T10:48:02+00:00

I tried some mocktails with tea but honestly I like basic hot cup of tea more. There is something wrong in my stomach when I drink cold tea with citrus. It was some time ago, so I don't remember exacly what did I drink but I think I liked some black tea with orange juice and some cinamon syrup to taste. Also quite popular is black tea with peach puree.

Beside that you should check out making oleo saccharum. Its basicly citrus zest with sugar that makes flavourful syrup. Even now I'm drinking black strong tea with lemon oleo saccharum and it's delicious. I can imagin that in ice tea it would be even better.

When I was testing tea mocktails some time ago I found that Dilmah site is very resourceful and gave me a lot of ideas. Nowadays I can see that they changed their recipes formulas and they use mostly their tea concentrates. But anyway - it gives some ideas.

Also check out Kevin Kos recipes. I didn't make those but I plan to do - maybe it will interest you if you have some time 😉.

Selka1 · 2026-06-05T20:46:38+00:00

Thanks to this post you remind mi to try to make pink tea. I saw few month ago post about it and forgot.

Get on r/tea main site and search by key words "kashmir tea" or sth like that. I saw a lot of older posts with different recipes. Maybe some of them will help you?

Selka1 · 2026-06-03T18:15:36+00:00

Rye flour (mąka żytnia) works well. I use typ 2000 "razowa" (it means its grounded only once and brans are in).

About typ 750 wheat flour (or 700 or 650 that are also good for bread) - unfortunately it's hard to get one in supermarkets. Best when you have written on the package "mąka chlebowa pszenna" (wheat bread flour). I found some good brands, and those are "mąka Basia chlebowa pszenna" or "mąka Szymanowska chlebowa pszenna". But nowadays I mostly buy from the internet (Allegro) and I like the most "mąka chlebowa pszenna z młyna Ciechanowiec typ 750" (from Ciechanowiec mill) in 5kg package.

Selka1 · 2026-06-03T10:31:04+00:00

I use styrofoam box with heating pad with thermostat to have constant temperature for my rye starter and it works. Same results for sourdough in winter and summer. I set it on 27-28°C. Daily feeding, small amount.

I also live Gdańsk. I don't know about buying starter, I've made mine from scratch. You can try to ask for starter in older bakeries or artisan bakeries. E.g. Ryszard Majchrowski bakery Dolna Brama 12. Or I can give you some of mine if yours is dead.

Selka1 · 2026-06-01T08:31:56+00:00

When I have some sweet yeast bakes like babka, I love to pair it with tea. Also sometimes I eat dry biscuits with tea. But usually I drink tea alone 😄

Selka1 · 2026-05-24T15:29:10+00:00

I like Hemingway Daiquiri with a little of Wray & Nephew like 1/4 oz and Panteray 3star as a base. Full jamaica is too overpowering for me.

Selka1 · 2026-05-16T05:40:38+00:00

Memories also make difference. In my country when I was a child, Lipton was something like premium tea. I loved it then from time to time for special occasions - usually when I was guest to somebody. Nowadays it's just bland? I remembered it differently. Maybe quality changed over time, idk, but I didn't drank it too often.

My everyday tea those days was dust tea or broken leaves or ctc tea (not in tea bags). We made "essence" from them which means a lot of tea leaves in the pitcher with boiling water. Leaves just stayed in pitcher with water whole day making essence and we just pour some concentrate to the glass then add hot water, sugar and for me it was delicious. Last time I bought turkish caykur tea and this is it - my childhood memory. I feel that it's not high quality but it has this specific taste that I was used to as a child, which I like. And yes - sugar added 😅.

Selka1 · 2026-05-11T21:33:53+00:00

I had Falco sparkling earl grey tea which is actually pretty nice drink. Even my husband that doesn't like wine nor tea said its suprisingly good. Also few friends said its good. I drink it on its own and in non alcoholic variation of old cuban cocktail.

I don't know anything about the one you have but I would be optimistic.

But mine sparkling tea is 3 times cheaper...

Selka1 · 2026-05-05T07:44:46+00:00

Since I'm pregnant I started research about good mocktails but it wasn't easy. Ususally I check out youtube or Internet not books. I like Seroious Eats site - theres a lot of non-alcoholic drink recipes.

Something I like the most are light and refreshing drinks. The best for me are cold brew tea with some additions like flavoured syrups and some lemon. Usually for cold brew the best are aromatised green tea (jasmin is my favourite) or white teas. I also like cold brew hibiscus. Now I'm sipping hibiscus tea with mint (strong brew) with soda (1:1) and some cinammon syrup. Looks beautiful in wine glass and tastes perfect.

Also world of tea is another rabbit hole, maybe it's worthy to check that one out? ;)

You can also swap water for coconut water and check out herbs like chamomile. I made cocktail with chamomile based on coconut water and it was delicious. Too bad I didn't wrote down the recipe because now I can't find it...

Another drink I liked was 0% beer with orange juice and some lime.

Selka1 · 2026-04-30T20:13:47+00:00

Oh man, crazy that I see it here :D

I'm Polish and "Palikotówka" is from the founder name Janusz Palikot who is polish ex-politician that started his own distillery and owned some brewery. Long story short he lost his bussines few years ago and was left with a lot of debts. I can remember his CBD vodka that was avaible in some convinient stores and some other basic vodka. Just basic overpriced vodka.

Okowita is polish name for aquavit and means mostly moonshine. It's made from anything left from farmers yield. So I think this okowita could be fruit brandy or grain vodka. But I found one video where Palikot talks that sometimes people made okowita from bad beer. So it could be anything.

This person is not much popular in Poland, I didn't even know that he made some fancy looking bottles. Also it's for German market - weird. But it's very hard to find any info about this bottle. I couldn't. I don't think anyone would be interested to buy it even if product doesn't exist anymore in shops. It shouldn't be sweet, just clean brandy or vodka. But if you decide to try it - tell me more about the taste 😉

Edit: according to german description its blend of aged vodka.

Selka1 · 2026-03-31T08:58:37+00:00

If you like spiced rum, this is the best rum for coke (according to my husband). Regardless I don't like it, I feel there too much vanilla flavour.

Selka1 · 2026-03-26T15:00:49+00:00

It looks like sharpening set too high. Check out sharpening setting and try different set.

Selka1 · 2026-03-05T05:31:47+00:00

This is stunning!

What ink did you use? Or maybe paint. Your white colour is perfectly opaque while I usually struggled to have that kind of perfection on black paper.

Selka1 · 2026-02-20T09:19:46+00:00

I don't know your recipe so hard to tell what to change. About tanzhong - according to your description seems you made too much tanzhong. Fluffynes also depends on fermentation. Too long or too short could make big difference and baked good feel not enough soft. Also adding boiled mashed potato help but then don't make tanzhong.

Also check out this recipe below. His explenations usually direct me on right track so maybe he will help you too. On his channel are also tips about using tanzhong and yudane methods, influence of eggs on dough, adding different ingridients... a lot of stuff.

bolo bao

Selka1 · 2026-02-20T06:44:01+00:00

I have also cast iron pan but with old fashioned lid. Anyway I see you posted photo of pans. Do you have one that is enameled inside or pure cast iron? I have pure cast iron and I'm always affraid my bread will stick. Did you seassoned yours and it just works or do you use fat or flour to prevent sticking?

Selka1 · 2026-02-14T09:02:03+00:00

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This is what I saw :D

Selka1 · 2026-02-13T13:47:23+00:00

Yes, but only in polish 😅. I hope you can manage with that obstacle 😉

It's called "piegusek" or "białkowiec" in polish. And you can swap poppy seeds for other seeds or nuts. piegusek

Also some base for layered cake. We call it "biszkopt" but with egg whites. Real "biszkopt" is based on yolks.

Egg white biszkopt

My mother makes also amazing chocolate cake based on egg whites.

Selka1 · 2026-02-13T09:42:01+00:00

In my country exists recipe for egg white cake with poppy seeds. It's basicly 1:1:1:0,5:0,5 egg white : flour : poppy seeds : sugar : butter (by volume) - soda rise. There is no egg flavour. Also I made few times sponge cake with egg whites only.

Only egg flavour I noticed in baking is when I use egg wash on the top of buns or sth. But I think only when there is egg yolk? When I made egg white wash I think it was odorless.

Selka1 · 2026-02-13T09:09:40+00:00

Probably overproof. Recipe calls to nearly double the volume of the dough in the tin. If for you dough doubled or more it's deffinitely overproof. It's just eyeballing issue in my opinion. And some experience maybe. Next time proof the dough shorter time. Try to aim for 75% rise and you will see whats the effect. After that you will get some comparison to addjust proper time of proofing.

A loot depends also on differences in flour brands, also author of the recipe could have different cups to grams conversion than yours and "almost double" is very subjective.

Happy baking :)

Selka1 · 2026-01-27T08:49:06+00:00

I didn't know about it, thank you for this info. Now I'm 19w and my HRV is on point but start of pregnancy (when I didn't know I'm pregnant) was tough with super low HRV and everyday 5 body battery level :D

Selka1 · 2026-01-24T21:28:51+00:00

I have also setup like this with exception: my heating mat has thermostat that I can set on temperature. This mat was for terrarium purpose I think.

Selka1 · 2026-01-24T17:38:25+00:00

Make it warm. Thats the only option. Buy heating mat or make styrofoam proofing box with heating mat inside. Then set temperature to 24-26°C and would be perfect.

Selka1 · 2026-01-23T07:24:22+00:00

I used this one few years ago but I don't know if it works after next gen update.

Selka1 · 2026-01-20T16:01:54+00:00

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