TEA TIME WITH TREBLE
Time for Tea
Watch the video below as Regular Treble shares the knowledge she learned from Fancy Treble, and get an overview of all the things you’ll learn for your own tea party!
Watch the video below as Regular Treble shares the knowledge she learned from Fancy Treble, and get an overview of all the things you’ll learn for your own tea party!
Make Tea From Weeds!
Excited to start? Watch this video from the staff at our Cedar Ridge Outdoor School site to get an idea of what kinds of teas you can make from plants that grow near you. Want the recipes or more ideas? Keep reading to learn more!
Excited to start? Watch this video from the staff at our Cedar Ridge Outdoor School site to get an idea of what kinds of teas you can make from plants that grow near you. Want the recipes or more ideas? Keep reading to learn more!
Note: Always have an adult with you when foraging plants. When picking your clover blossoms, only pick from lawns not treated with weed killers or pesticides, those can make you sick. If you’re not sure, pick from somewhere else. Also, it’s okay if your clover blossoms have some pink or red on them, they do not have to be pure white.
Dandelion Tisane:
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White Clover Iced Tisane:
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Trees Also Make Great Tea!
Watch this video to learn how to make tea from trees!
Watch this video to learn how to make tea from trees!
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He uses a stovetop, but very very hot tap also works. And do you know where a great source of pine needles is? A Christmas tree! Double check with the farm or tree stand that you get your live tree from to make sure they don’t use herbicides or pesticides. This can be a great after Christmas / Yule / Winter-time tradition with your family!
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Tea Time Snack Fit for the Queen
You can’t have a proper tea time without snacks, and tea sandwiches are the classic fit for this occasion. It might seem daunting, but just a few tricks can make your sandwich making abilities to British café level. Treble’s tips? Try cutting the crusts of your sandwich or using cookie cutters to make them into fun shapes, rolling the bread flat with a rolling pin before making the sandwich, or adding more vegetables. Watch the next video to see how a classic British cucumber sandwich is made! |
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Sandwiches aren’t the only food at tea time. You could also try fruits and veggies with dips like hummus and ranch, cheese and crackers, cookies and baked goods, and even soup and salads are eaten when it’s time for tea. A fun way to make any snack fancy, according to Treble, is to make it a Charcuterie board. Charcuterie means cold cooked meats (like deli meat), but the phrase often refers to a snack plate or the ultimate lunchable. It’s common to include fruit, vegetables, crackers, cheese, and even sweets! The trick is to have just a little bit of a few things that can be eaten together or apart. Here’s Treble’s favorite assortment:
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Poetry
Poetry like tea, it thought to be only fit for the queen. But poetry is just like reading anything else, but better! Poetry is the abstract painting of the reading world, it is what you make it. Reading poetry with your tea can be silly or sad, funny or mad. Check out these poems below:
Poetry like tea, it thought to be only fit for the queen. But poetry is just like reading anything else, but better! Poetry is the abstract painting of the reading world, it is what you make it. Reading poetry with your tea can be silly or sad, funny or mad. Check out these poems below:
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Also try: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou I’m Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service Remember by Joy Harjo Ready to write your own? Gather your nature journal and then watch this video from a nature camp in California as they use their nature observations (I notice, I wonder, It reminds me of) to create beautiful poetry!
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Now, spend 10 minutes writing your own! You can use notes you’ve already made in your nature journal, spend time outside to create something brand new, or use the pictures below from our Camp Magruder Outdoor School site as inspiration.
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