France's evening cup: lemon verbena from the high Velay plateau, bright citrus over calming green.
Recipe
- Temperature 95 °C · 203 °F
- Plants 2 g
- Water 250 ml
- First steep 5:00
- Each next steep +1:00
- Steeps 2
Lore
Aloysia citrodora crossed from South America in the 18th century and found a second home on the volcanic plateaus of the Velay. Le Puy distilled it into a liqueur in 1859; French grandmothers have steeped its leaves ever since: the tisane of long evenings.