**Fundraise with tea4support.com — Ideal for Cash Strapped Schools**

December 25, 2012

Fundraising  in the New Year can be easy with  Tea4Support.com

Working with organizations, in particular school,  Whisk and Spoon  was surprised how much schools counted on the PTA to support essential programs for its students—it’s  intimidating by the amount of money  needed for each class.   This year, we’ve created new teas for an exciting new fundraiser – Tea4support.  Working with tea4support will help your organization avoid  the  dreaded Fundraising Fatigue.  

Tea4Support can offer something more compelling and meaningful to your organization’s community!

Offering something more interesting and creative—something that parents would buy eagerly, not just out of a sense of duty, and that their friends and family would be thrilled to receive as gifts? It should be useful, easy, personalized to reflect the unique personality of each supporter—and definitely delicious, so you’ll want more!

Tea4support is a creative, community-based alternative to the usual school fundraiser.   Teas are for the  conscious consumer,  products that advance the values parents strive to instill in their children.  The tea4support selection of teas are healthy, good for you, and taste delicious.  They support local communities while creating jobs in Pennsylvania!

Tea4support fundraising can provide the same kind of opportunity for the parents who choose to use this company.  By banding together to support education programs beyond our own schools, communities can help even more kids at a time when budget cuts and deficits make this kind of assistance more important than ever in todays’s economy.

For this reason, Tea4support Fundraising applies part of its proceeds (beyond the money you raise for your own fundraiser) to help less fortunate U.S. communities. Right now and the near future Tea4support will be supporting  SANDY relief projects

With tea4support.com up and running, nothing gives our company,  Whisk and Spoon,   greater pleasure than helping cash-strapped schools  provide a rich education without compromises for every student.  We  hope you’ll join Tea4Support  and make every fundraiser unique and memorable for your students, your family and friends, and your entire school community.Fundraising with Tea4support.com

1811 – OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Green Iced Tea with a twist!

April 16, 2012

Hello Green TEA Cocktails. Perhaps a bit premature;  it is 83 degrees today –  in April!

I’m still just thinking about getting ready for summer, creating new blends for a customer, and thinking about green tea – a lot.

So, if truth be told, I’m a recipe junkie looking for inspiration this Monday.  It is true – I do love a good cookbook, but it’s the recipes that do me in…    Way back when I lived off just off the Portobello Road, I went to the markets all the time looking for bargains.    It’s time to dust it off this recipe for a ‘green tea punch”, I found in at the market.

Try this recipe with our Chinatown Green Passion Tea either in pyramid sachets or in our Tear and Pour™ Pouches.  This green tea is refreshing and tropical made e with organic green tea, organic calendula/marigold petals, and organic flavors perfect for our Regent Cocktails.

A bit of history:  Early 1796, saw English and American cooks were writing about using Green Tea with alcohol.  Regents Cocktails was a popular drink at gatherings all during the year.  It wasn’t until late 1884 that we find the first printed recipes referencing ‘black’ tea – and it took a world’s fair to make black tea famous when combined with lemons, sugar and iced.

For my personal taste, I’m not at all too keen on lots of sugar in this cocktail.  Add with care, and taste each step of the way until punch is sweetened the way you like it.  My assumption on all the sugar is purely speculative.  I believe most household cooks were still experimenting with ingredients from the Far East as little was known about the subtleties of green tea.   As most recipes advised cooks to ‘boil and stew’ the tea for long periods; it is this very technique that resulted in the need for LOTS of sugar and lemons to balance the astringent nature of green tea.

 Purchase Green Tea from our Sponsored Fundraiser:  Bike & Build

 

 

Make the recipe:

MAKES approximately 3 QUARTS

 (contact us for kid-friendly version)

This tea-infused champagne cocktail makes an elegant centerpiece for any festive occasion this spring.

Arrack is a distilled alcoholic drink produced in South Asia.  It is sold in stores throughout USA.  I’ve listed some brands I’ve worked with over the years.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar, water & pineapple to make a simple syrup.
1 cup cubed pineapple
2 lemons
2 oranges
1 Seville orange (also called bitter or sour orange)
2 Chinatown Green Passion Pyramid Sachets (or 1 Tear & Pour™ Chinatown Green green tea leaves)
1 cup brandy, preferably VSOP cognac
1⁄4 cup dark  rum
1⁄4 cup arrack liquor, ( Batavia-Arrack, van Oosten, cachaça, VSOA
2  750-ml bottles Brut or rose sparkling wine or  champagne, chilled

Garnish with star fruit and lime twists and a dash of grated nutmeg

1. MAKE YOUR OWN SIMPLE SYRUP: In a 1-qt. saucepan, combine 1⁄2 cup sugar and 1⁄4 cup water. Stir over high heat until sugar dissolves; transfer to a bowl along with pineapple. Allow to macerate in refrigerator for at least 8 hours to make a pineapple syrup. Strain and reserve; discard solids.  EASY METHOD:  add simple syrup with tropical or pineapple flavors.

2. Using a peeler, peel lemons, oranges, and seville orange, taking off as little white pith as possible. Transfer peels to a heavy bowl; reserve fruit. Add remaining sugar; use a muddler or a wooden spoon to vigorously crush sugar and peels together until sugar turns faintly yellow and slushy.

3. In a medium bowl,  steep tea in 2 cups of hot water (150-160F )for 2 minutes. Strain tea over lemon and sugar mixture; stir until sugar dissolves. Juice reserved fruit into tea mixture. Strain through a sieve into another bowl; discard solids. Stir in pineapple syrup, brandy, rum, and arrack. Chill mixture. To serve, combine mixture and champagne in a punch bowl along with a large block of ice . Garnish with nutmeg

October, usually it’s Food & Recipes: Here’s 3 Great reasons to drink tea.

September 23, 2010

October, usually we post a new recipe with pork, but not this year.  Right now Whisk and Spoon is  getting ready for the  October Pink’d campaign, new fundraiser ideas and the Major League Baseball Playoffs.  We know it’s football season, however, here we are and the Phil’s are right back on top of the division… Wahoo!  Got Pink'd

Just glad not to be headed out to Vegas next month, because Whisk and Spoon has a couple of weddings to attend in October – which are always a lot more fun than trade shows.  We would love to receive your comments on the Pink’d logo – tell us your thought by leaving us a comment to post.  Save the date! October is the month for  purchasing more tea – this year two charities benefit from our sales.

3 great reasons to drink tea

Tea is Effective in Lowering BAD cholesterol.

Journal of Nutrition found that consuming 30 oz. of black tea daily – the fluid equivalent of 2.5 cans of soda – reduced Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL, or “bad”) cholesterol levels by more than 10 percent in mildly hypercholesterolemic adult study participants.

Tea is Heart Healthy

Studies published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association &  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) study participants who drank 3-4 cups of tea per found that incidence of myocardial infarction or heart attack decreased by 43 percent AND it was also found that tea significantly lower risk of death following a heart attack – a decrease of up to 44 percent.

Tea is good for you even if you are still smoking – Cough!

Tea was helpful in some protection of heavy smokers.   The clinical intervention study found that heavy smokers who consumed four servings per day of green tea had 31%  lower levels of 8-OHdG (a biomarker for oxidative damage to DNA) in white blood cells. Oxidative damage to DNA is one factor which increases cancer risk and the researchers suggest that a significant reduction of DNA damage found with green tea drinking may help reduce cancer risk in smokers.

A multitude of research studies point to drinking tea as a way to promote health.  Tea is also being supported by more and more doctors as it can potentially reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease and certain types of cancer.

Tea is an ideal beverage — delicious, refreshing, soothing and healthful.  A lot of people ask why Whisk and Spoon is so crazy about organic teas – our answer is always the same – unlike fruits and veggies – tea doesn’t get washed.

Can’t wait for your feedback on the Pink’d logo.

This month’s recipe:  Diabetic Friendly Comfort Food – Mac N Cheese.  For the recipe send an email whiskandspoon.com/contact/

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