What can you make with Green Tea Bags?

Ted_Hutchinson

Str4berr3 wrote:

Please tell me if any one has a recipe for green tea ice -cream!

Tried to google this recipe but can only find one that was one of those diet ones! ( I believe ice cream should be eaten with all the fatness in!)!

6 egg yolks
6oz 175g sugar
1pt (600ml) single cream
2 tbspoons tea leaves.
Beat the egg yolks and sugar until thick and creamy
Rinse a saucepan in cold water and heat the cream. When nearly boiling remove from heat and infuse the tea leaves for 1 minute. Put through a nylon strainer. (you will have to squeeze the tea leaves to get all the cream out) Pour over the egg mixture beating well.
Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water (or use a double saucepan) and stir or beat gently until the mixture begins to thicken. Cool and freeze.
When the mixture begins to set beat well and return to freezer.
Remove from freezer half hour before serving and leave in fridge.

Ticklemouse

I'm a green tea convert - I already liked it - but for true MSEers, you can get Clipper loose green tea in 125gm tubs for 99p. You get far far more than if you buy the teabags, so apart from being more beneficial, it costs you much less per cuppa. I buy it from Tesco's but only 1 of the 3 stores near me sells it.

Right, must go and make myself a green tea cuppa now

Ted_Hutchinson

Your Tesco's is cheaper than mine as I pay £1.19 for the same tea. It still works out cheaper (and better flavoured) than Tesco's Green Tea bags which cost £1.29 for 50 and seem to be better value than elsewhere.

Ticklemouse

It's possibly gone up in price since I bought mine, or maybe I remembered wrongly, cos you get so many cuppas out of the one carton, it lasts for ages You are probably right as I'm talking about the Clitheroe branch of Tesco's, which is not one of the cheap ones, by far!

Str4berr3

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

Antioxidants may increase the probability of developing allergic diseases and asthma. Explains that it is because Green Tea is so high in antioxidents. For people who aren't asthmatic antioxidents are highly desirable
Green tea-induced asthma: relationship between immunological reactivity, specific and non-specific bronchial responsiveness. shows that for people who work in a Green Tea factory it can be.
I suspect that this may only be a theoretical problem for the majority of readers here as most people use tea bags and this is likely to produce a much weaker tea with less likelihood of a severe reaction.
However the problem of antioxidents in general producing an adverse impact on asthma suffers is a double blow for them. It seems common sense that antioxidents are good for you but this isn't always the case see
[size=+1]Use of antioxidants during chemotherapy and radiotherapy should be avoided. [/size]and you will see that they could reduce the effects of conventional cytotoxic therapies so there are situations where you do need to tell your health professionals what you are taking and ask if it may have adverse effects on the therapy they are giving you.

Thanx Ted.

Is this a Green Tea ice cream?
I mean when you say 2 tea leaves do you mean Green Tea leaves?

Lychee

I've borrowed a breadmaking recipe book from the library and it has a Green Tea Bread recipe. I'll post it if anyone is interested! I haven't tried it myself, plan to do so this weekend.

bargainqueen_2

WOW I am so gonna go out and buy some. So, I should opt for leaves rather than bags is that right? Anything to help me lose weight......

Ted_Hutchinson

Str4berr3 wrote:

Thanx Ted.

Is this a Green Tea ice cream?

Yes Well actually it's any kind of tea. The recipe suggests Earl Grey or fruit tea but their's no reason why Earl Grey leaves should be any different from Green Tea leaves. I've got a Green tea sorbet as well if you like.

Str4berr3 wrote:

I mean when you say 2 tea leaves do you mean Green Tea leaves?

It's two tablespoons of Green Tea Leaves. If you've only got bags to hand then I think if you made up a very very concentrated well brewed half cup of tea and mixed this in with the cream you'd get away with it.

Ted_Hutchinson

bargainqueen wrote:

WOW I am so gonna go out and buy some. So, I should opt for leaves rather than bags is that right? Anything to help me lose weight......

The Green Tea weight loss research paper I quoted initially was using green tea made from leaves and they were drinking six cups or more a day and the weight loss was over a long period. So don't expect instant miracle results. I think it's partly because Green Tea has less caffeine and more caffeine [font=Times New Roman, adobe-times, Times]leads to an increase of insulin in your body that retards the burning of your stored fat. [/font]

culpepper

My daughter (15) has been drinking green tea since she tried the free sample Clipper were giving away early this year.Her spots are much less now than before and she wont drink anything else now .