Friday Afternoon
Smut-Tea
Smut-Tea
Lady Dame is a theatrical technician, Twitch and TTRPG content creator. She can usually be found streaming bedtime stories and chill indie video games, and once a month running a TTRPG one-shot to raise money for different charities. Most importantly, she hosts Smutty Saturdays, a weekly show where she is joined by folks around the internet to read smut of varying (mostly cursed) quality.
If any of those things sound like a good time (and oh yes, they are), give her a follow on Twitter and Twitch!
Ingredients: White tea, ginger, lemon peel, goji berry, marshmallow root, blue butterfly peaflower, cardamom, rose, slippery elm bark, gold lustre dust*
Approximately 30mg of caffeine per cup
Steep at 180° F or 82.2°C for 3-5 min
*Gold lustre dust contains: mica-based pearlescent pigments, corn starch, titanium dioxide (color), yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1, red 40, sugar, dextrose, silicon dioxide
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I love the blend of flavors in this one! I added a little raw sugar and it brought out new notes. I’m a fan of ginger and this tea has a great kick of ginger without it overpowering the other flavors.
This is a lovely tea to sip in the afternoon; enough caffeine for a pick me up but not enough to keep me awake all night.
I'd love this tea if it was only kind of flirty, but as it stands I get my smut on AND it soothes my throat when I've been overusing it ;)
(Let's be real, that mostly means after I've been crying in a therapy zoom call but shhh let me have this)
Brewed 3g, ~300ml for 3 minutes. My immediate reaction to the first sip was a big "oof, what is that?". The ginger came out REALLY strongly; subsequent sips really all I could taste was ginger, and ginger skin, like some earthy-woody-strawish notes behind it. Couldn't really detect the cardamom or goji taste-wise, but it was present in the brew aroma. The liquor color is pretty, and it definitely is a "warming" brew, just not in a way I really expected.