#bitter lemons make

[diddlesanddoodles]

Its come to my attention that not everyone has read this old ass story of mine. So I am reblogging for visibility.

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This story takes place in the same universe as Bitter Lemons Make. 

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[carouselcometh]

The Glass Coffin Mocktail! In honor of my most beloved and favorite Saw trap 5ever :)

[smokeys-house]

I changed the smokey special drinky drink a bit 🤏 but instead of actually altering anything I just went from the juice of a lemon wedge to half a large lemon 🍋

[lilacthebooklover]

kill yourself

i want to have a passionate gay affair with you in which our lives become incorrigibly and irreparably intertwined and then marry your mother to leave you desolate bitter and alone forever xx

[ev-stazzah]

fizzy fruity cocktail butch and her pint of lager femme gf

[sherlokiness]

I am expecting Jon to betray/kill? a tyrant like Dany but also get the girl Sansa. That means the author will let him have the moral high ground for his actions and still be rewarded with a marriage. The hero gets to marry a beautiful princess. Essentially, he gets to have his cake and eat it too. A bittersweet cake. The bitter part comes from Dany while the sweet part Sansa.

[omgitsbeewave]

it's almost 2am, i made tea for my mum and for myself, so it's best time to ask

what tea you guys like?

[compacflt]

Thank you so much for sharing your Tom Kazansky and related playlists because I’m obsessed with them and how perfectly the songs fit. Yesterday I cried on a plane to When All is Said and Done

uncritical support for abba and mamma mia! for providing me the perfect song with which to end my top gun fanfic series called “easier done than said”

[xumoonhao]

everyone hi hello if the weather has gotten hot where you live please do yourself a favour and make yourself an iced tea for tomorrow <3 put a teabag or two (i use one teabag for milk tea, two for sweet tea) in two cups of cold water and put it in the fridge overnight :3 you will have iced tea ready for you in the morning 💖

[romanscool]

six thousand words strong on a chapter that's taken me months to even consider starting writing.

[the-smeck-group]

This soup was almost a disaster: in the broth, i used too many herbs, so it came out bitter. Thankfully, the chicken breasts I roasted saved it. I added a can of fire roasted tomatoes to help take the edge off a little more. Only needed a 1/3 cup of pre-made stuff.

[coffentyme]

Hey google is it weird to be 21 with no relationship experience in an age where it seems like if you’re not experienced by your late teens/early twenties you’ll never ever get to experience it?

Google??

Hello???

[kavehayati]

Tea is so good I wish kaveh was real

[oversizedclothesdemon]

Protip: if you make vanilla tea with (oat in my case but I reckon it works with other types) milk it tastes really good. It tastes good with water too ofc but for some reason making it with milk tastes better.

[captaindibbzy]

There is easy low hanging fruit here, especially about the US and salty tea. And I'm so SO tempted.

But also I'm super in to tea and I'm bored.

The perfect cup of tea is how you want to drink it, and if you do not LIKE tea then drinking it a different way, or a different kind of tea, vastly changes it.

A pinch of salt makes things less bitter, this trick also works with coffee. But other things that affect taste are tempriture, length of time it brews, where the tea was grown, the climate, the soil, and how big the leaves are. Some of the cheapest tea has little more than dust in the tea bag while more expensive teas you will notice have more structure to the leaves.

Tea brewed in colder tempeitures needs longer and creates a different taste. It may require more tea to get the specific flavour you want, and generally it is less bitter for it. Similar thing to spices where if you cook them, use them hot, toast them first, etc, you get a different set of flavours to using them cold.

Like wine, tea can have lots of flavour profiles and colours. Assam for example is very dark, malty, and strong, it can get quite bitter. Ceylon is much lighter. Darjeeling is good with lemon, but Assam is better with milk, in my humble opinion. Lapsang Sushong is very smokey. Earl Grey

Most people will drink a mix. English breakfast is usually a mix of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan. Earl Grey is flavoured with bergamot.

White, green, and black tea all come from the same plant, just different parts of it, treated differently. Black tea can take a higher tempriture, but boiling water on green and white tea will scorch the leaves and make it very bitter. Agitating the tea can also have this effect as it releases more tannin.

As a general rule there is a tea for everyone, and a way to drink it that you will enjoy, whether that's hot, cold, mixing it with spices, flavourings, fruit, milk, sugar, lemon, and yes, even a pinch of salt.

I would not, however, recommend tea that has been in the Boston harbour.