Pu Erh Dante & Milk

My husband surprised me today. When I came home from work, he made a nice dinner and brewed a new sort of tea. Pu Erh Dante from the Black Savant Sampler was our treat. I decided to call it "Pink Tea". No, it does not have hibiscus, berries or rosy flavor. As Adagio puts it, it has very "earthy taste". But the thing is, we drank it with milk, and when mixed with milk the tea gave a light shade of rosy pink.

Yes, yes, I know, you might say that milk spoils the taste of tea and that one should only drink tea straight. Well, let me try to argue that.

China is not the only country that has tea traditions. Many European countries have their own ways of drinking this delicious beverage. For example, English tea is tea with milk, Russian tea is tea with lemon and Mongolian tea is tea with butter. Who would have thought?

Milk has a lot of protein and animal fats that are good for you. However, people tend to use fermented milk, like in yogurt and cheese, because unprocessed milk is sometimes hard to digest. Tea provides a great mitigation for the bad effects of milk, making it easier to digest. Moreover, the combination of animal fats from milk, vegetable fats from tea, proteins and vitamins provides a wholesome complex, that is especially effective in the morning.

So, if you like tea with milk, drink it, be energetic and healthy!