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If you are looking for a more original party idea for your daughter's upcoming birthday, then why not go for a wonderful tea party? A children's tea party is usually an inexpensive but fun way to spend children's birthday. As long as you have several ideas to be included in the party, your daughter will surely approve of that.
Pick the themes that are according to your child's liking of course. The foods you serve should also be in accordance to the children's taste. Usually, peanut butter, jelly cutouts, cakes, cookies and chips are a sure hit among the children so make sure to serve those. As for the drinks, why not try a really cool sparkling punch and pink lemonade, perhaps served in a small and elegant cast iron kettle which you can call a magic teapot? The kids will love this too.
The tableware you use is one important element in the party. It would be really nice to have been personable looking teapots and cups that would capture the little girls' imagination. Consider the designs of a typical Asian cast iron kettle as well as teapots made with Russian porcelain. They are lovely, aren't they?
Part of a children's tea party is the objective of teaching them proper table manners and having an attractive set of kettles, cups and other tea ware will surely add to the success of carrying out that objective. The perfect set of tableware for your children tea party can be easily found in any kitchenware specialty store.
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Go Three Days Without Food But Never a Day Without Green Tea
Green tea became well known in China during the period of the Tang dynasty (AD 618907) and was quickly prized as a promoter of health and vitality. There's good evidence, however, that its many benefits had already been known to the elite for thousands of years by then. In fact legend tells of a stray camellia blossom, drifting on the breeze one day in 2737 BC, which found its way into the Emperor Shen Nung's steaming drinking water and quickly infused it with all the characteristic refreshment and invigoration we associate with green tea.
So renowned did the benefits of green tea become that detailed rules of etiquette for its correct consumption emerged, culminating in the publication of Lu Yu's "The Classic Art of Tea". This famous poet and Buddhist priest laid down strict procedures for the preparation and serving of the perfect cup of tea. The water had to come from a gently flowing stream and be combined with leaves in a fine porcelain cup. And the resulting brew of green tea was ideally to be drunk next to a lily pond in the company of a beautiful woman.
Not surprisingly, given this kind of marketing, the popularity of green tea spread rapidly throughout China in the centuries following the publication of Lu Yu's work. "Rather three days without food than a day without tea" became the saying, as news reached the remotest corners of the vast empire. Books and poems were composed in green tea's honour; Emperors gave particularly prized samples as gifts, and the teahouse became a familiar feature of countless cities, towns and villages.
So just what are the health benefits of drinking green tea? The Chinese knew it from earliest times as an aid to good digestion when consumed after a meal, stimulating the absorption of nutrients from food; and it's since also become known as a powerful anti-oxidant and detoxifying agent which can speed the flushing of toxins from the body. But there's far more to green tea than this.
Most importantly, leaves for green tea are steamed rather than fermented, preserving the vital Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) compound. EGCG is just one of a number of catechin polyphenols found in tea, but research suggests that it's a particularly powerful anti-oxidant, the presence of which makes green tea anything up to ten times more powerful than the more common fermented (black) teas.
In fact, today's Western science is increasingly confirming the health benefits long claimed for the consumption of green tea. And as amazing as it may seem, EGCG and related compounds in green tea appear directly to target the most common killer diseases often attributed to western affluence and diet. Some research, for example, has credited EGCG with the ability to reduce total levels of cholesterol whilst at the same time improving the ratio of "good" (HDL) cholesterol to "bad" (LDL) cholesterol; thereby helping to protect against both heart attacks and strokes - still two of the most frequent premature killers in the Western world.
Some exciting Swiss research published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in November 1999 also suggests that green tea may help with the increasing problem of obesity by prompting the body to burn fat at a significantly increased rate.
But perhaps most excitingly, there's now evidence that green tea may even help in tackling cancer. For example, in 1994 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published the results of a study indicating that drinking green tea reduced the risk of oesophageal cancer in Chinese people by almost sixty percent. And University of Purdue researchers recently concluded that as few as four or five cups of green tea a day may provide enough EGCG to help retard the growth of tumours and this without apparent damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
Now if after reading all of the above you're just raring to add green tea to your daily dietary regime I wouldn't blame you at all. In fact I'd actively encourage you. But it's only fair to give you the whole picture. And that means pointing out that the consumption of large amounts of green tea could risk adding some caffeine to your normal intake.
Let me put this in perspective though. A standard six to eight ounce cup of green tea will contain between 30 and 60 milligrams of caffeine. A similar size cup of coffee will likely contain more than 100 milligrams. So just replace a couple of cups of your normal coffee intake with your recommended four to five cups of green tea and your caffeine intake's going to stay level. But if you want to eliminate caffeine entirely then caffeine-free green teas are now becoming readily available.
So you can enjoy all the benefits cited above without any of the possible side-effects of caffeine, and with ever increasing interest in the health promoting properties of green tea, new benefits are coming to light all the time. Already for example, the anti-oxidant (ie antiageing) qualities of the tea are being applied to the manufacture of skin care products.
These applications may still seem a little far-fetched to you right now, but in terms of your internal organism there's no longer any doubt that green tea is truly one of nature's great gifts - a very inexpensive but extremely valuable health booster.
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Question about tea pots...?
I have read that it is not good to brew more than one type of tea in ceramic and porcelain tea pots because it retains the flavor of the tea. Does that mean you shouldn't brew black and green teas using the same pot, or does it mean you shouldn't brew two different flavors of black tea in one pot?
You can use different black teas or different green teas, but not both types in the same pot as the flavors will affect each other. Over time the flavors will enhance each other with use as long as they are complimentary.
Update: Draculessa, the teapot usually isn't washed with detergent (like the tea cup is), just rinsed with water & wiped or brushed out. The flavors can build and actually get better over time. If you wash the teapot thoroughly with detergent each time, you can use different teas, but the flavors will never reach peak. I use my teapot for darker teas, but my green & white teas are done in a french press to prevent the flavors crossing over. I don't have room for 3 different pots.
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