Tag: Adagio Teas

Three Teas to be Discontinued at End of April

Posted April 24, 2025 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 0 Comments

Hi, everybody! As you may recall, in January I announced that this year I will discontinue a few of my custom tea blends every few months. I’ve been making blends for almost 10 years and have over 60 blends by now, so I think it’s time to say goodbye to some of the less popular teas.

Before I discontinue each set of teas, I share a post here (and link to it on social media) one week before the blends are officially discontinued. This will give people time to grab a few final tins if they’d like. In this particular case, one of the teas I’m discontinuing is still available, but the other were made with teas Adagio no larger carries so they’re already out of stock.

This month I will discontinue the following teas:

Aqueous Tea

Patriot Tea

The Once and Future Tea

The Patriot Tea will be available to order until the end of April.

Thanks for your continued support of my teas and recipes!

I’ll be back next week with another recipe post. See you then!

Aqueous Tea from A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Once and Future Tea from King Arthur

Patriot Tea from Meet Felicity

An Announcement About My Teas

Posted January 23, 2025 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 0 Comments

Hi, everybody! As many of you know, I’ve been making custom tea blends through Adagio Teas for about 10 years now. Over that time, I’ve developed a set of almost 60 teas (I know, it blows my mind too!). Since there are so many, I’ve decided to begin discontinuing some of the less popular teas.

I’ll discontinue them in groups of three every few months this year. Before I discontinue a set of teas, I’ll share a post here (and link to it on social media) one week before the blends are officially discontinued. This will give people time to grab a few final tins if they’d like. I may temporarily re-release discontinued teas for limited runs in the future if that’s something people express interest in. I might even hold votes in the future to decide which teas to keep!

Today I’m announcing my first set of discontinued teas:

Arrietty’s Cherry Tree Tea

The Odyssey: Calypso’s Tea

Serpentine’s Restorative Tea

These teas will be available to order until the end of January.

Thanks for your continued support of my teas and recipes!

I’ll be back next week with another recipe post. See you then!

Arrietty’s Cherry Tree Tea from The Borrowers

The Odyssey: Calypso’s Tea

Serpentine’s Restorative from Neverwhere

Donwell Abbey Strawberry Tea

Posted August 29, 2024 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Book of the Month Recipes, Teas / 0 Comments

Since there’s an extra Thursday this month, I get to do a bonus post! Sometimes I make a cocktail, but this time I decided I really wanted to make a new tea blend. I haven’t made one since my Twenty Thousand Leagues Tea last year, and I miss it a lot. So let’s get brewing!

If you’re new around here, you may not know that I have a set of custom tea blends on Adagio Teas (of which I am an affiliate member). I used to make a new one for almost every menu, but now I have over 50 blends! So these days I only make a new tea if I feel truly inspired.

Since this tea is inspired by EMMA, I instantly knew that I wanted it to be strawberry flavored, as a nod to the afternoon Emma spends picking strawberries at Donwell Abbey. I added summer rose because it evokes a sense of romance and Regency elegance. To round it all off, I included a bit of cream tea for balance. And Donwell Abbey Strawberry Tea was born!

With both the flavor and the aroma, you get a strong combination of strawberry and rose with a hint of creaminess in the background. Just right for tea time in the summer sun with your favorite Jane Austen novel!

Sound delicious? You can order it here!

Bonus Post: Twenty Thousand Leagues Tea

Posted April 27, 2023 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 0 Comments

Since there’s an extra Thursday this month, I get to do a bonus post! Usually I make a cocktail for my bonus recipe, but since Captain Nemo doesn’t keep alcohol on the Nautilus (much to the distress of Ned Land), I decided to take the opportunity to create a new tea blend.

If you’re new around here, you may not know that I have a set of custom tea blends on Adagio Teas. I used to make a new one for almost every menu, but now I have over 50 blends! So these days I only make a new tea if I feel truly inspired.

I loved the idea of an ocean-themed blend, so I started with White Tropics, which is a white tea flavored with pineapple and coconut. Those fruits are perfect since they’re both mentioned in the book and also have distinct flavors that come through even in a delicate white tea. For added depth, I mixed in my favorite green tea: Citron Green, which has notes of lemon and orange. I love how the citrus plays off the tropical flavors without completely overpowering them. For a flavor boost, I added dried coconut, dried pineapple, and lemon balm.

I always recommend serving herbal and white teas cold since the flavors are so delicate. This one is SO delicious! The lemon hits you first–smooth and soothing–followed by hints of the juicy tropical flavors at the end. Just the thing to calm your nerves after defeating a giant squid!

Sound delicious? You can order it here!

Bonus Post: Peter Rabbit Tea

Posted April 28, 2022 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Book of the Month Recipes, Teas / 1 Comment

Since there’s an extra Thursday this month, I get to do a bonus post! I specifically scheduled my Peter Rabbit menu on a month with a bonus Thursday, because I new exactly what I wanted my extra menu item to be: a brand new tea blend!

In the story of Peter Rabbit, Peter’s mother gives him chamomile tea after his adventure in the garden, so naturally this tea has a chamomile base. I added some white strawberry tea because it’s one of my favorite flavors to mix with herbals (it comes through well without being overpowering). I topped it off with a sprinkling of lavender—just enough for a soft floral note.

I always recommend serving herbal and white teas iced since the flavors are so delicate. This one is SO refreshing! All the floral, fruity flavors come together to make a perfect springtime blend.

Sound delicious? You can order it here!

A Patriot Tea Party: Almond Cookies, Queen Cakes, and Berry-Flavored Tea

Posted July 4, 2019 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Book of the Month Recipes, Holidays / 0 Comments

Happy 4th of July, folks!

I hope you’re all enjoying a relaxing day with family, friends, and good food. I definitely am! We’re off visiting my husband’s side of the family today, and we’ve got a weekend in Indiana planned with my family next week. In fact, a visit to my family in June gave me the idea for today’s post, which is dedicated to Felicity Merriman, the American Girl doll inspired by the American Revolution.

I first got my Felicity doll when I was just a little girl (six? maybe seven years old?). We did EVERYTHING together, so much so that I’m actually surprised she survived my childhood in one piece. But survive she did, and my mom kept her safe in storage for years until I had a house with room to store her. Last month, I finally got to take her home! As I went through her box of accessories, it got me reminiscing about all the good times we had. The funny thing is, I had been stressing about what book to feature on the blog in July, but when I realized that my scheduled posting day fell on Independence Day…well, a Felicity recipe was just too perfect to pass up!

For today’s recipe, we’re recreating teatime at Miss Manderly’s house from the book Felicity Learns a Lesson. In the story, Felicity must learn to balance her patriot sympathies with her new friendship to a loyalist named Elizabeth. At teatime, Felicity has to choose between drinking tea (which her family is boycotting) or refusing and thereby endangering her friendship with Elizabeth. Her quick solution is awfully clever, and I want to commemorate it today by recreating Miss Manderly’s tea table: an inviting spread of queen cakes, hard biscuits, and black tea.

I used an almond variation on my own sugar cookie recipe for the hard biscuits, but it was trickier to find a queen cake recipe. I wanted an authentic colonial recipe, but it also had to have instructions that would make sense in a modern kitchen. In my search, I stumbled across the blog The English Kitchen, which sounded promising. The recipe there was perfect: quick, easy, remarkably tasting…and not much altered from the colonial version! The only change I made was adding nutmeg, since some variations on queen cakes call for mace (which comes from the same plant), and bits of brown spice are clearly visible in the queen cake illustration in Felicity Learns a Lesson.

Then came time for the finishing touch: a custom tea blend! It’s been a long time since I’ve created one of my custom Adagio teas, so it was fun to stretch my tea-making muscles again. This red, white, and blue inspired blend is flavored with raspberries, blueberries, and almonds to make a rich tea with a distinct hit of juicy berries. I love it with a little sugar and milk.

So fire up some fireworks and put on the kettle. It’s time for a Patriot Tea Party! 😀

NOTE: This post is not sponsored by or affiliated with Mattel, Pleasant Company, or the American Girl brand.

There’s Tea in that Nebula: Vulcan Spice Tea

Posted June 5, 2018 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 2 Comments

Coffee may be the most iconic “organic suspension” in Star Trek: Voyager, but Vulcan Spice Tea is a close second. It’s a reigning favorite of Captain Janeway, who has been known to share a cup while meeting with her Vulcan head of security, Lieutenant Tuvok. I started this blend with spiced mate tea, a high-caffeine Brazilian tea flavored with cinnamon, ginger, and orange. I paired it with orange honeybush to increase the zesty flavor and honeybush hazelnut to compliment the toastier notes in the mate. Definitely the perfect blend to sip while watching the adventures of the starship Voyager!

Three Teas to Rule Them All: Ent-Draught, Breakfast at Bag End, and Sam’s Garden Tea

Posted May 22, 2018 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 0 Comments

Normally I make just one tea for my Book of the Month, but I’ve been known to make multiple teas for books I’m really excited about. I knew The Lord of the Rings would be one of those books long before I even started planning the menu. For one thing, it’s a trilogy, so it’s only fair to have one tea for each book, right? Plus, there are just too many awesome potential teas to choose just one. I actually made FIVE originally, but that seemed excessive so I narrowed it down to my three favorites: Ent-Draught, Breakfast at Bag End, and Sam’s Garden Tea.

Ent-Draught was the most obvious choice, since it’s arguably the most iconic drink in the story. There are two versions, and I decided to make the refreshing, less savory version. Breakfast at Bad End is a slight variation on a hobbit tea I designed for my cookbook (the one in the book uses English breakfast and chestnut, while this one is Irish breakfast and hazelnut). And Sam’s Garden Tea is a tribute to orchard, herb, and flower bed with a refreshing blend of peach, chamomile, and spearmint.

Bruce’s Chocolate Cake Tea

Posted April 24, 2018 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 4 Comments

Chocolate teas are among my favorites, so I when I had a chance to make a chocolate cake tea blend for my Matilda menu inspired by Bruce Bogtrotter’s chocolate cake, I pounced on it without hesitation. Of course, an average chocolate tea wouldn’t do. I wanted something intense and complex, befitting Bruce’s legendary cake. So after starting with a plain chocolate tea as my base, I added chocolate honeybush and just a hint of mocha nut mate. The honeybush opens up the flavors, allowing you to experience their full range, and the mocha flavor makes it all stronger. If there was ever chocolate cake in a teacup, this is it. So drink up—before Trunchbull catches you! 😉

What the Wild Things Drink: A Where the Wild Things Are Tea

Posted March 27, 2018 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Teas / 2 Comments

My tradition of making a tea to go with each of my menus came in handy at my son’s Where the Wild Things Are birthday party—we had a custom tea to serve with lunch! I don’t normally get to share my teas with such a large group, so I was excited to create something for a crowd.

I’m always on the lookout for chances to use Adagio’s forest berries tea, since it’s such a unique blend, and this looked like a great time to use it. With that as my base, I added blackberry and cream teas for complexity. Throw in some extra dried raspberries, strawberries, and marigold petals for color, and you’ve got yourself a fun, sweet tea blend that’s perfect for a party!