Therefore, drinking hot tea regularly in winter can effectively replenish the body's needed fluids, especially black tea, which is warm and sweet in nature, nourishing the body's yang energy. Black tea is rich in protein and sugar, which can tonify the body, store yang energy, generate warmth, warm the abdomen, enhance the body's cold resistance, and also aid digestion and cut through greasy foods.
1. Milk Black Tea
Ingredients: 3 grams black tea, 100 grams milk, 2 grams salt.
Preparation:
1. Put the black tea into a pot, add water, and decoct for 5 minutes.
2. Filter out the black tea leaves, and in another pot, boil the milk.
3. After the milk boils, add the tea infusion and stir in the salt.
Benefits: Drinking once every morning can effectively supplement qi and blood, strengthening the body.
2. Sugarcane Black Tea
Ingredients: 500 grams sugarcane, 5 grams black tea.
Preparation: Peel the sugarcane, chop it finely, and decoct together with the black tea.
Benefits: Clears heat and generates fluids, treating dry throat, thirst, throat itching, cough, and overconsumption of greasy foods. It is an ideal health tea drink.
3. Astragalus Black Tea
Ingredients: 15 grams astragalus, 3 grams black tea.
Preparation:
1. Put the astragalus into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and boil for about 15 minutes.
2. Add the black tea and continue boiling for about 5 minutes before drinking.
Features and Benefits: Astragalus is sweet and neutral in nature, with effects such as tonifying qi, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs, generating fluids, and expelling phlegm. It is mainly used for spleen and stomach weakness, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, qi deficiency, unhealed sores, and reducing swelling and expelling toxins. It effectively tonifies qi and strengthens the stomach, improving symptoms of physical weakness. It has beneficial effects on the central nervous and cardiovascular systems, has a blood pressure-lowering effect, and also acts as a diuretic, antiviral, anti-aging, and anti-tumor agent.
4. Glutinous Rice Black Tea
Ingredients: 50 grams glutinous rice, 5 grams black tea.
Preparation:
1. Wash the glutinous rice and put it into a pot.
2. Add an appropriate amount of water and cook.
3. Add the black tea to the cooked glutinous rice and drink.
Benefits: Tonifies qi and nourishes blood, improving symptoms of physical weakness.
5. Osmanthus Black Tea
Ingredients: 7 to 10 dried osmanthus flowers, 20 grams brown sugar, 5 grams black tea.
Preparation: Add the dried osmanthus flowers and brown sugar to the black tea, then brew with hot water.
6. Iced Black Tea
Brew the black tea into a slightly stronger infusion. Then, fill a cup with ice cubes to about 80% capacity, slowly pour in the black tea infusion. Add sugar to taste and stir well to make a colorful, aromatic, and flavorful iced black tea.
7. Foam Black Tea
Use black tea, ice cubes, fruit jam, and sugar water. First, brew the black tea with boiling water and strain out the tea infusion for later use. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes to about 80–90% full, add sugar water, then the black tea infusion. Tighten the lid and shake vigorously up and down. Use the rapid cooling effect from the temperature shock to create foam. Shake until the ice cubes are mostly melted, then pour and drink.
8. Royal Milk Tea
Black tea, high-quality strong aromatic foreign liquor, cube sugar, and milk. First, brew the black tea with boiling water and strain out the tea infusion for later use. Use a spoon to hold a cube sugar, light it, and let it burn for about one minute, then drop it into a milk tea cup. Add the already brewed black tea infusion, then add about 4 ml of pure milk, stir well, and drink.