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Subject: Re: Anyone Try Product called CHAI?
Date: 30 Oct 1996 00:29:47 -0500
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In article <54it3d$af2@fridge-nf0.shore.net>, smigs@msn.com (Tom
Smigielski) writes:

>Has anyone tried a product called CHAI - listed as a coffee 
>alternative. If so, what were your thoughts and where did you try it?

>From an article in the Spring/Summer 1996 "TeaTime Gazette" entitled "Chai
- The Trendy New Tea Drink":

There is something indescribably wonderful about chai - once people taste
it, they love it.  Call it tea's version of latte, or the next best thing
to hot cocoa, or dessert in a cup  however you describe it, chai is
delicious.  Reported to be all the rage on both the east and west coasts,
this hearty, aromatic drink appeals to coffee drinkers, tea sippers, and
children alike.

Popular throughout India, chai is tea steeped with a mixture of spices,
such as cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger, and sometimes black pepper
(which is a surprising but tasty addition) then enriched with milk and
sweetened with sugar or honey.

Recipe:

Combine 2 tsp each of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves and 1/4 tsp
black pepper.  Stir well.  For one cup of chai:  Put 7/8 mug of water in a
saucepan.  Add 3 tsp tea (assam, Lipton, or ceylon) and 3/8 tsp of the
spice mixture.  Bring to a boil, stir to mix well, then simmer covered
over low heat for 5 minutes.  Add 1/4 mug milk and bring to a boil. 
Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a mug and sweeten.  (You will
probably want about double the normal amount of sweetener because of the
spices.)

For a complete copy of this article, send a SASE to PO Box 40276-N, St.
Paul, MN  55104.

Linda Ashley Leamer, Editor