Chai Concentrate: Brewed Slowly, Kept in the Fridge, Better Than a Café

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000

I have made chai the proper way exactly twice in my life — standing over a pan first thing in the morning, crushing cardamom while still half-asleep, waiting for that single rolling boil where the milk threatens to climb out of the saucepan. Both times it was wonderful. Both times I thought, I will never do this on a weekday again. And I didn’t. The café down the road got my money instead, three quid a cup, foamed by a machine, vaguely cinnamony, mostly disappointing.

Elderflower Cordial

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000

For a couple of weeks every June, the hedgerows along the lane near us froth over with creamy, flat-topped elderflowers, and the whole verge smells of warm honey and muscat. It is a brief, almost embarrassingly fragrant window, and if you miss it you miss it for a year. So every June I take a bag and a pair of scissors on an evening walk, come home with an armful of blossom, and turn it into a year’s worth of summer in a bottle.

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Chai Concentrate: Brewed Slowly, Kept in the Fridge, Better Than a Café

Elderflower Cordial