cereus17 That sounds so gooood.
They’re so lucky! Can I be your friend, too? _(´ཀ`」 ∠)
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ihateyounot if you live in Macau, sure. I’m moving there in 3 weeks. 
oh, I adopted a soldier, I send care packages to him twice a month so I bake frequently 
Cantiara Since it’s too long if I want to type those recipes here, I’ll give you the YouTube link so you can see how to make them. I hope you don’t mind
Earl grey cupcakes by cupcakes jemma (I omit the toast crumbs on top and it’s still delicious)
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Earl grey chiffon cake by Justonecookbook
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Anna Olson earl grey tea cakes
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cereus17 This time no, I bought a collection of teas from Russia. There was tea with strawberries and cones. Here he has a really unusual taste ... strange and still very strange but tasty. And so I buy thyme on the market, add my dried currant leaf, mint leaves. a little crystalline sugar, such tea helps with colds.
cereus17 A real Viennese cake, his sponge cake is soaked in apricot syrup for 1 year! A whole cake costs 150 euros! A piece of 25 euros, a piece is not big at the same time.
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Gourmet_DAO when I make sacher torte, I only spread apricot jam between the two chocolate cake sheets. Haha mine isn’t authentic then 
Gourmet_DAO Interesting, Thank you for sharing 
cereus17 There are many, almost genuine recipes for this cake online. I saw them in culinary communities. There, lovers of baking soaked them for 1.5-4 months. They said that the taste was 80 percent authentic. We sell in the confectionery "SAHER" but this is only the name, taste, aroma, texture, aftertaste are completely different.
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I wonder what that would taste like. OR does it get solid?
Ah all these tea cakes sound so good (all I have now rn donuts- and honestly donuts taste better with coffee. Today I picked up red velvet and blueberry donut holes!)
yaoyueyi peppermint tea sounds so good right now
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Elizabeth_Mize peppermint? I haven't had peppermint tea in a long time. :0
anyways, I'm awfully proud of this thread for almost reaching 200 posts. us forum peeps got our priorities right.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sachertorte-231043
Surprisingly, the sponge cake is soft, the texture is well expressed, the taste is hard to put into words - you can just cloyingly sweet, good with black coffee. A small piece of cake and a cup of coffee in 50 grams.
Yes there's just something about the combination of sweet cakes and dark bitter hot drinks. It just pairs so well and you don't get tired.
Some things just work better with coffee and other's pair well with tea (oh and then there are the different types of teas and cultures ahhhh so many things to eat so little money and chances.) Oh tea pairing question to anyone?
What drink would you pair with a pineapple upsidedown cake? Usually I would just serve it with iced green tea for that refreshment factor or after dinner black coffee. It's one of my better homemade cakes so I make/serve it to others more but unlike other sweets, I don't think there's like this perfect tea/drink to go with it.
A tart tartin works well with dark teas or even herbal teas but a pineapple upsidedown? Especially with cherries?
CCmei Austrians like to sit after work in a cafe, then go to a restaurant, another, third, and then again to a cafe. They have such a culture. Yes, and salaries allow. For us it would be considered a luxury. But they have better food and coffee.
To be honest, I have never eaten pineapple pie in my life. But maybe tea with hibiscus or rooibash? Rooibash is an amazing tea, almost more coffee, you can say that it is a delicacy of teas! Do you use natural pineapple or canned?
Interesting! Here you need to look at the table of food compatibility, since now is the age of healthy nutrition, you need dessert to be tasty and not cause damage to your health!
But the combination of pineapple and cherry flavors is of genuine interest ?! What is the taste of this combination? What to apply for this cake, in addition to drinks? And which drinks are better - coffee, tea, cocoa?
I have a specialized tea store near to my home. My favorite tea from there, whether it is roobos or green tea is a vanilla- red berries tea.
It is not cheap,though. About 7-9$ for 100g. They have another green tea i love too: kiwi+ passion fruit. It tastes great. It's all bio.
In the supermarket they sold rooibash tea, Dilmakh from Sri Lanka, but only one day, then the tea disappeared. A 50 gram jar was worth $ 6.5. But in another minimarket one could buy rooibash mixed with cinnamon, of another company, the price for 25 grams was $ 3.
Now I tried matcha but didn’t really like it. There is also such tea
ASDA Apple Crumble - 40 grams 3 dollars, but have not tried it yet
I just adore that cafe/bar hopping culture. I enjoyed it immensely when I visited European countries that practiced it. Though of course there are variations. More alcohol in France, more savory appetizer dishes in Spain rather than just cafes and teas. (but oh so good anywhere- ooooh Russian cafes are just so cozy and the stuffed decor is really interesting.)
Pineapple and cherries is a really vibrant pairing-so I suppose you can imagine it with very Hawaiin flavors. It works in the same way as a tart tartin where in the fruit is cooked upsidedown in the pan and incorporated the arome very fully into a syrup rich cake.
I've worked green and herbals teas with them usually (including hibiscus and rooibois). I love roobios though I do find it annoying how the small bits occasionally leaks. Filters yo~
My dad and I are constantly arguing about 'red' tea and black tea. Since I was western born I understand 'red' tea as Rooibos while my father is traditional Chinese, where 'red' tea is a type of black tea that hasn't been fermented to the point of puer.
CCmei Europeans have an interesting culture, going to cafes and restaurants. Grilled chicken, brown bread, wonderful mountain cheese, various types of teas and coffee. Buns. In Japan, their wagashi, rice cakes, matcha, sencha tea are interesting. Miniature portions of food, amazing decor. There are many types of chocolate in Japan, about 40. And also a good cafe with French pastries of 230 kinds. True, and prices are higher than European.
Now we have only Chinese pineapples, but there were times when they were brought from Iran, India, Malaysia.
You will need to try it somehow! You intrigued me?! The combination with tea is especially interesting.
Well, we basically had green tea, Chinese long leaf. Black tea is Indian or Ceylon, later Indonesian. About red tea, I learned not so long ago.
There are many varieties of tea, as well as its methods of fermentation, roasting. No, so long ago I learned about small tea farms in Japan, mountain plantations, and various degrees of roasting, which affect the color, taste, aroma, texture of the tea itself.
Although much depends on the type of water in tea - artesian, mineral, spring, rain, melt. Degree of purification.
One acquaintance tried to still insist grains of coffee on not boiled water. I also tried, as well as experiments with tea leaves. What can I say? The experience was informative! The taste of some samples was very tasty, while others were just awful!
But in the morning, doctors say you just need to drink boiling water. My friend from Chengdu, came last year, he categorically insisted that boiling water is tastier than any tea. He said that boiling water is sometimes sweet. In the morning you need to drink two glasses of 200 ml of boiling water, they wash all vessels from toxins.
Well, in the morning I just drink filter water, it’s refreshing well. But in the afternoon I already drink rooibash, herbal tea from thyme, sometimes chamomile or tea from dried currants. These are herbal preparations from Russia. Yesterday I bought tea from strawberries, and there were little Russian cones there. The taste is interesting of course.