Eritrea

Eritrea

Today we visit the small country that was once part of Ethiopia. They gained their independence in 1993. Eritrea has a long coast on the Red Sea, and its name is an Italianized version of Mare Erythraeum - the Latin name for the Red Sea. 

Like I said in my Ethiopia post, the tea of these 2 countries is similar, but they used slightly different spices (in the resources I reviewed). For today's tea I used a generous cup (250 mL) water, 1 teaspoon of black tea, a green cardamom pod, a whole clove, and some pieces of cinnamon. 





I put the water on to boil while I cracked the cardamom pod and ground up the clove. When the water was just about boiling, I added everything, and let it simmer for 5 minutes. 















Here it is. Nice and hot (check out that steam rising off the cup). This tea has a pleasing level of spice. Black tea is not boring here. I like how the addition of different spices can make the same black tea into something different and special. It's a nice way to start a weekend morning, although I do admit that sometimes I add a tea ball of spices to the small teapot I use at my desk when I work at home. It's a fast, easy way to add a little more flavor to my plain tea on busy mornings. 

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  1. Poppy CrockerJanuary 28, 2018 at 7:45 AM

    You get to play with spices a lot.

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  2. Lace makerJanuary 28, 2018 at 9:10 AM

    I will admit that the tea in this part of Africa is fun to make. If you have to drink a lot of it every day, why not spice it up? People who post how to videos often comment about how everyone makes their tea just a little bit differently. I wonder if families can identify who made the tea by amount and kind of spices that are in it.

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    1. Poppy CrockerJanuary 31, 2018 at 8:50 PM

      That wouldn't surprise me. People tend to have their own styles.

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    2. Lace makerFebruary 4, 2018 at 1:56 PM

      Kind of like making soup, is there liquid in it, or is it burned? :-)

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    3. Poppy CrockerFebruary 4, 2018 at 2:26 PM

      Ha!

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