Hand-rolled green tea scented over nights with fresh jasmine blossoms: perfume without a drop of oil.
Recipe
- Temperature 80 °C · 176 °F
- Leaf 3 g
- Water 200 ml
- First steep 2:00
- Each next steep +0:30
- Steeps 3
Lore
Fuzhou has scented tea with jasmine since at least the Qing dynasty: blossoms picked at noon open at night against the resting leaf, then are sifted away, and the round repeats up to seven times. Nothing is added but patience; the tea simply remembers the flowers.