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An all day tea - Jasmine Dragon Pearls

An all day tea - Jasmine Dragon Pearls

June is the beginning of the jasmine flower season.  Therefore, it feels like the appropriate time to talk about Jasmine Dragon Pearls Tea.   First, the tea leaves themselves are picked.  These leaves need to be picked in the early spring, but then are dried, and stored until summer, when the jasmine flowers are ready.  The jasmine flowers themselves are picked in the morning, when they are still tightly closed.  In the evening, the tea leaves are piled onto the flowers.  Then, when these night-blooming flowers open, they release their scent into the tea.  This process takes roughly four hours....

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