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Relaxation Tea - Poor Man's Saffron
Description
The cup is warm and clear, copper deepening to red, with small things suspended in the light—needles, petals, grains, and a single bright strip of gold. The aroma is layered: rose, honeyed rooibos, lavender, and something faintly green. The taste is gentle, sweet, and round, with one flower mostly lending its colour. Its name is a fragment of Roman timekeeping, a flower that turns up quietly, month after month, making things brighter without being called precious. There’s a kind of person like that, too.
Today's cup: Relaxation Tea — rooibos, rose petals, rose buds, lavender, calendula petals. 1 tsp, 200mL, 100°C, four minutes. It takes a second infusion.
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