Bilberry leaves and fruit are also used to concoct herbal tea.
Starting in the 1950s, founder Lum Muk Ho concocted milk tea by adapting the techniques used for Hainanese coffee.
A soft drink concocted with iced tea and lemonade has become known as the Arnold Palmer, joining the Shirley Temple on the short list of drinks named after famous people in their lifetimes.
So there were mock banquets and "afternoon tea trials," concocted conversations that served as tutorials on "proper verbiage," and dozens of check-ins and check-outs, although no guests had arrived.
Even a brand of tobacco—"Hut Point Mixture"—was concocted by Ernest Wild from sawdust, tea, coffee and a few dried herbs.
My brother once made me drink a tea he'd concocted from wet hay and a selection of my mum's dried flowers, and even that tasted better than Mate.
"In Shiism, we always talk about blood, about sacrificing your blood," he said over tea and sohan, flat candy concocted from pistachios and saffron.
At a time when manufactured and misdirected outrage has been boiling over at tea parties toward government authorities, concocting a civil liberties issue to advance an individual agenda is not only irresponsible, it is frankly dangerous.
Why be happy with a mere 100 flavors of Snapple iced tea when the human mind can concoct up to twice that many?
Sadhana Tea House in Mount Vernon has been concocting holistic brews for spiritual and physical wellness since August 1993.
Watching all this, one feels the cold and the driving rain and the comfort of a steaming cup of tea and hot breads and stews concocted over open fires in colorfully bedraggled encampments pitched in high winds.
