Friday Knows Tea

For those new to our blends, welcome! Our themed teas are mostly developed from CEO Friday Elliott's neurological superpower, lexical-gustatory synesthesia . These BTB ( behind the blend ) posts serve as a dissection of Friday's process and experience.  Today, however, we are examining one of our blends NOT developed by Friday. This tea was created by our shop teen, Teacup, also a polysynesthete. We interviewed Teacup about the inspiration behind The Modern Pro-TEA-theus. Portrait of a Young Blender Friday: Teacup, hello! Teacup: Helloooo Friday: Can you tell us why you chose Frankenstein as subject material? Teacup: We were working on the Horror Collection, and so I felt like having a good Frankenstein tea would be really really beneficial to the collection, especially because it's like a "classic horror monster," and I thought it would be fun to do that. Also I had several ideas for it. Friday: Tell me about the tea! Teacup: The tea is a fu...

Today's guest post comes to us from Ben, who we hope will share more of his fabulous recipes in future! -Friday I’m a bit of a tea obsessive. What started as an (unhealthy) addiction to coffee, has now seen me change lanes to tea. And with this change, I’ve always tried to get creative with my tea use. From  putting together therapeutic cups of turmeric tea , to using tea bags as a way to battle my shoe odors,  I’ve found a plethora of ways to adapt it for everyday use. Enter these chamomile tea and lemon shortbread biscuits. Using tea for baking isn’t always the first thing that comes to mind when I think of interesting ways to  incorporate it, but these shortbread biscuits are too good not to try. Chamomile is the perfect ingredient for these shortbread biscuits. Its delicate flavors and relaxing  properties match beautifully with the lemon zest, bringing together a subtle taste to an already  comforting food in the form of shortb...