Colonial Tea Collection

This Colonial Tea Collection sampler includes 5 corked glass tubes of historical American teas in a handcrafted cherry wood display. The teas and display come packaged in a box with an info card, ready for gifting. Colonial Bohea: by far the largest tea import during colonial times. Sometimes called Bohea Souchong or Lapsang Bohea, the blend originated in China with trade to the British and Dutch East India Companies. It was so popular that the word bohea became the slang term for tea. The blend varied wildly, consisting of broken orange pekoe, pekoe, and souchong dumped in a pile and then sifted, typically the scrap tea of lower quality leaves, but was considered high quality by the colonists. Cacao Shell: Martha Washington enjoyed drinking cacao shell tea, which she made from roasted shells and sipped at breakfast. George Washington wrote to his agent, “She will, … thank you to get 20 Lbs of the shells of Cocoa nuts, if they can be had of the Chocolate makers." NOTE: During initial p