Tea Is Always a Good Idea at Easter
To celebrate Spring and in readiness for Easter, Babingtons Blends is offering a gift selection featuring a Breakfast Special blend to Wake Up Your Bank Holiday, African Nights – A Sweet Almond Sensation, Miss Babington 125 – Delicious with Chocolate Treats and the Earl Grey Imperial – an Award-Winning Treat.
“This year, why not celebrate the awakening of Spring and of our senses with fun, colourful Easter biscuits and mouth-watering cups of tea. Happy Easter and happy tea drinking – remember… pinkies down!” says Chiara Bedini, great granddaughter of Isabel Cargill & the co-owner of Babingtons Rome.
Since 1893, Babingtons Tea Rooms at the foot of Rome’s iconic Spanish Steps, has been serving fine teas to the world’s most discerning tea connoisseurs, always with a dash of British eccentricity, wit & style.
The drinks are available to purchase online, ship nationwide & internationally, at www.babingtonsblends.com
African Nights – An Almond Sensation
18 premium biodegradable, pyramid tea bags, £14.99
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Tea Leaves, £13.99
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Babingtons best-selling and all-natural herbal tea. This healthy Rooibos is a deliciously sweet treat with bold almond flavours and hints of juicy red fruits. Scented naturally with lemon myrtle, hibiscus, and orange peel.
All the family can enjoy this tea including children, and it’s delicious hot and iced.
Pair with sweet treats and savouries; sponge cakes, custard, and tarts along with savoury sandwiches, meat, and spicy foods.
Beneficial properties: thirst quenching, remineralising, and it contains polyphenols, antioxidants, fluoride, and vitamins.
Miss Babington 125, Delicious with Chocolate Treats
Tea Leaves, £13.99
https://babingtonsblends.com/products/miss-babingtons-125-loose-tea-in-caddy
An enchanting blend of black teas with roses, vanilla, and elderflower, to celebrate the founders of Babingtons and the 125th anniversary. Intense and fragrant, this blend of premium black teas from Ceylon and China, is scented with all-natural ingredients.
It is an intoxicating, fragrant tea featuring very British ingredients including precious York rose petals, blueberries, elderflower, and honey, balanced perfectly with Italian lemon myrtle, juniper berries and vanilla.
Pair with savouries and chocolate: salads, club sandwiches, muffins, Victoria sponge, Pavlova, shortbread, and scones
Beneficial properties: the regenerating and intoxicating aroma of this blend of black teas stimulates concentration, while simultaneously having a relaxed effect.
Breakfast Special, Wake Up Your Bank Holiday
18 premium biodegradable, pyramid tea bags, £14.99
https://babingtonsblends.com/products/breakfast-special-blend-tea-bags-in-caddy
Tea Leaves, £13.99
https://babingtonsblends.com/products/breakfast-special-blend-loose-tea-in-caddy
A rich and balanced English breakfast tea created for Babingtons in the 1950s. An extraordinary Breakfast tea, made by blending three black teas: Ceylon, Darjeeling, and Yunnan.
Pair with a delicious breakfast; eggs, bacon, or cream cakes and desserts
Beneficial properties: black tea, known as ‘red tea’, in China, is produced with fully oxidised leaves of the Camellia Sinensis. The tea plant contains vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, and caffeine, which help us improve performance and concentration.
Earl Grey Imperial, An Award-Winning Treat
In 2022, the Babingtons Earl Grey Imperial, Won Highly Commended at the Great British Food Awards
18 premium biodegradable, pyramid tea bags, £14.99
https://babingtonsblends.com/products/earl-grey-imperial-tea-bags-in-caddy
Loose Tea Leaves, £13.99
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Our delightfully balanced and elegant version of the famous bergamot infused tea, enriched with lemon zest and vibrant petals. When creating the Imperial Earl Grey, Babington’s wanted a bergamot tea in which the flavour of the tea wasn’t overwhelmed by the scent of the other ingredients. As a base it chose a Ceylon black tea from Sri Lanka, to which it then added bergamot essence, lemon peel and flower petals.
Pair with savouries; smoked salmon, wild rice salad
Pair with sweets: biscuits, apple cake, apple pie, carrot key and lemon pie
The beneficial properties of Black Tea: Black tea, known as ‘red tea’, in China, is produced with fully oxidised leaves of the Camellia Sinensis. The tea plant contains vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, and caffeine, which help us improve performance and concentration.