Ingredients · Other
Yogurt
What it’s like, and how to use it
How to use it
It melts into the cup rather than steeping, and sweetens as it goes. Stir it. Best in a blend drunk hot.
With food
Nutmeg and cinnamon. Vanilla. Rum. Almond. Shortbread.
With spices
Nutmeg above all. Cinnamon. Vanilla. Cloves. Cardamom.
With tea
Black tea and rooibos, in a dessert blend.
Its story
Where it comes from
Our lot does not name a manufacturer or give a composition; yogurt pieces of this kind are typically a sugar and vegetable-fat coating with yogurt powder in them, rather than dried yogurt alone.
What happened
Yogurt in a dessert tea is a modern blending trick and not a very old one. The interesting part is what it is standing in for: eggnog, the drink this blend is named after, is a spiced dairy punch whose ancestors run back through posset — hot milk curdled with wine or ale and spiced — which was being drunk in Britain from the medieval period. George Washington served visitors a version made with rye whiskey, rum and sherry. A tea that tastes of eggnog without any dairy being poured is, in that light, a fairly inventive piece of shorthand.
On the shelf with it
Every product it goes into.
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Vienna Eggnog
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