English Breakfast Blend

£6.49

A perfect breakfast tea with good body and full tea flavour notes. Coppery bright especially enticing with milk.

Loose Leaf Tea Ingredients

 Black Tea

About This Loose Leaf Tea

Today the habit of tea drinking is inexorably linked to England despite the fact that the British were fairly late on the tea scene, in historical terms. Ironically the first mention of tea in English literature is a translation of a Dutchman‟s travels to the East. Tea was first brought to England via Holland on Dutch ships. As tea grew to become an „in‟ beverage, the British government became quite incensed that a nation as tiny as the Netherlands could control the shipment of tea to the UK. In 1651 the British government passed the Navigation Acts, which forbade the importation of any products on non-British ships. Traders and Dutchmen, being resourceful, continued the trade in the usual manner but for one little wrinkle - the tea was transshipped in Holland onto British ships!


Early in British life tea was known as a health beverage and claimed all sorts of curative powers. In the 1650‟s, Garway‟s
Coffee House proclaimed that:
“Tea makes the body active and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome; preserving perfect health until extreme Old Age”


Afternoon tea was the invention of Anna, wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford. At the time custom dictated only two planned meals per day: a hearty breakfast and a late evening dinner. Anna in an effort to ease the mid-day “sinking feeling”, began instructing her servants to prepare tea and cakes in the late afternoon. Thus began a fashionable habit, which still exists today. 

Britain is steeped in tea history. Think of: High Tea, the Brown Betty, American War of Independence, Opium Wars, The Boxer Rebellion, Clipper Ship races from Fuzhou, China to Portsmouth UK, the Earl of Grey, English Breakfast etc.

 

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Best English breakfast!

Delicious - Lovely flavour and taste! Best English breakfast for my tea time so far!
I will definitely get more again!!

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Claire L.
Lovely full bodied tea.

I love this tea. If you like a proper strong cup of tea it''s for you. Ordering again. Just leave to brew for 5 minutes and you get a lovely strong cups.👍👍👍👍👍

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Angela j.A.

English Breakfast Blend

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Judith W.
English Breakfast Brand

Ten Teas met my order quickly, tea was supplied in recyclable packaging.
It is paler in colour than I expected but we found the tea has a subtle and delicate taste.

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karen
English breakfast blend

Very nice tea! Best English Breakfast blend I have had.

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Based on 7 reviews
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Anonymous
Best English breakfast!

Delicious - Lovely flavour and taste! Best English breakfast for my tea time so far!
I will definitely get more again!!

C
Claire L.
Lovely full bodied tea.

I love this tea. If you like a proper strong cup of tea it''s for you. Ordering again. Just leave to brew for 5 minutes and you get a lovely strong cups.👍👍👍👍👍

A
Angela j.A.

English Breakfast Blend

J
Judith W.
English Breakfast Brand

Ten Teas met my order quickly, tea was supplied in recyclable packaging.
It is paler in colour than I expected but we found the tea has a subtle and delicate taste.

k
karen
English breakfast blend

Very nice tea! Best English Breakfast blend I have had.