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Old 16-03-2007, 07:57 PM posted to rec.food.drink.tea
Scott Dorsey
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Default New Zealand medicine?

magicleaf wrote:
Manuka honey, I have been hearing a lot about this honey and
occassionaly its nice to have tea with a littlle sweetner in. ( I can
hear all those tea officionados scoffing)


Manuka and Kanuka are in the tea tree family and related to the familiar
Melaleuca quinquenervia that is a plague in Florida. The flowers also
smell basically like melaleuca flowers, so I would assume that honey
made from them would have a similar taste.

Putting sweetener in tea is a waste of good tea, but putting a strongly
flavoured sweetener in tea seems to miss the whole point of tea.
--scott
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