Potato Pancakes & Applesauce (Holiday Series: Hanukkah)

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Apple, Cinnamon, Bread, Butter, Flowers, Toasty, Potato, Nutmeg
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Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec 5 g 14 oz / 406 ml

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  • “So… 2nd infusion, here, but first a PS to the first infusion… When it got cold it really does taste like applesauce and it’s terrific! Tasting Notes for 2nd infusion… I’m not going to lie…I stole a...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Hanukkah tea for the eighth night of Hanukkah! Actually, I’ve been drinking it all holiday, but I was waiting to reach my 200th note to post about it. This tea was my 100th tasting note, too, so...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I almost didn’t get any of this in our West Coast group order because I thought it would be a little too weird for me, then opted for a bit, then what happened, it made sense to get more to make it...” Read full tasting note
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  • “1oz sipdown! This tea is a creative novelty, which is another way for me to say that I don’t quite grasp the full concept of this cup. It’s probably the potatoes. I understand the spiced apple...” Read full tasting note
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From Butiki Teas

Our Potato Pancakes & Applesauce tea pairs our buttery Organic Huangshan Mao Feng with generous potato pieces and crisp apple chips. Plain, this tea is thick with potato notes up front followed by apple and cinnamon notes with some buttery notes that peak through at the end. As the tea is repeatedly sipped the buttery quality will become more apparent. The weighty body adds to both the potato and applesauce feel. Since this tea is on the lighter side, we recommend drinking this tea at a warmer temperature. For stronger potato notes we recommend adding a very small amount of salt; however, this may diminish the applesauce notes. For a sweeter applesauce, we recommend adding a tiny bit of sugar; however, this may reduce the potato notes.

Ingredients: Organic Huangshan Mao Feng, Freeze-Dried Potatoes, Organic Saigon Cinnamon, Organic Cinnamon Apple Chips (Organic Apple, Organic Cinnamon), Natural Organic Flavoring (vegan)

Recommended Brew Time: 4 minutes
Recommended Amount: 1 tablespoon of tea for 8oz of water
Recommended Temperature: 180 F

For more info, please visit: www.butikiteas.com

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91 Tasting Notes

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4170 tasting notes

A sample that the awesome Butiki sent me a while back. I’m hungry and this tea seemed it would be the most like food. haha. I think I waited for the water to cool too long though. I did steep two teaspoons for four minutes (one teaspoon didn’t seem like enough… the big potato pieces!) I don’t get very much potato flavor, but there is a hint of cinnamon apple. The green tea adds a bit of butteriness to the blend! Definitely need butter for potato pancakes! I feel like I failed this one somehow, since the rating is so high on Steepster! I certainly didn’t expect a very strong potato or apple flavor, since that would mean fake flavoring and Butiki definitely doesn’t do that. I guess I’ll just have to love all of Butiki’s other teas.

Butiki Teas

I think we may recommend 1 tablespoon. I wonder if that would help?

JustJames

i really need to try this at some point.

tea-sipper

Oh, I think I misread it as one teaspoon and not one tablespoon. But I used two teaspoons anyway! I think I let the water cool way too low for both steeps though.

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6444 tasting notes

This is salty and sweet and really hitting the spot today. I keep putting it off because it is a green tea and that means having to wait for the water to cool (I really miss my variable temp kettle sometimes) but when I do make it, I am always impressed. Both the potato pancakes and apple sauce are distinctive and delicious. Thank you Annie for sharing!

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297 tasting notes

I received this in a swap.
this cup was so clear it was quite spectacular.
this is so delicious. I don’t know what potato pancakes are suppose to taste like, but this is so good. you get the buttery vegetal notes & the hint of cinnamon & apples. mmmmmm I could drink this all the time.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 15 sec
Fjellrev

Mmm, good to know. I ordered some of this. :)

CHAroma

Great tasting note! I really enjoyed this one too.

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Big thanks to Stacy from Butiki Teas for providing this sample with my latest order. Yay! I love trying new teas! :D

The aroma of the brewed tea is recognizably potato and apple. Wow. How did she do that? First sip! Hmm, the taste is so interesting. The first part of the sip is buttery green tea. The end of the sip is potato: warm, buttery potato pancake. Mmm! The apple is very quiet in this, but it complements the other flavors well.

This tea is very well blended indeed. I’m really enjoying this! My cup is almost empty, oh no! Time for a second infusion for 6 minutes. Wow! The aroma of this second cup seems better than the first! It smells positively AMAZING! I added a teensy tiny bit of sweetener to this cup in hopes of bringing out more apple.

Mmm, it worked! The aroma is weighted towards potato pancake, but the taste is weighted towards cinnamon apples. This is the first time I’ve identified cinnamon in the tea. The sweetener was just the right amount to bring out the apple flavor without actually making the tea taste sugary sweet. And there’s still plenty of potato pancake flavor! This is perfect!

I’m loving this! It’s so unique and delicious. And I’m sooo impressed that it re-steeps this well! I just can’t believe it. Sooooo good!!!! I never want to run out of this! This is MAGIC!!! Thanks, Stacy!

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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361 tasting notes

This is a fun tea. In the description she suggests adding salt to bring out the potato flavor or sugar to bring out the apple. So I made a pot and poured it into 3 smaller cups. Added a slight bit of rock sugar to one, slight bit of fleur de sel to one, and left one alone. I tasted the plain one and was really intrigued, but wanted it either saltier or sweeter. So I tried the salted one, loved the potato flavor but wanted to still taste the apple, which kind of went away. Tried the sweetened one. Good, but was missing the potato. So… I took all 3 cups mixed them all together. Both sugar and salt in the mix. I like it the best. I’m not sure how often I’ll have this, but I can see craving this every so often.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec
Butiki Teas

Glad you think this is a fun tea! I’ve been kind of drinking it almost as a sweet broth and was thinking about adding some cooked noodles to see how it tastes.

TastyBrew

Funny, the broth thought was in my head during my last few sips, especially with the slight saltiness. I bet some noodles would actually be pretty good. I’m partial to udon noodles, but they’re probably too heavy. What were you thinking?

Butiki Teas

Oooh, I love me some udon noodles. Yum! I was thinking of some thin rice noodles but would definitely be open to suggestions.

K S

It’s not just a tea… It’s a meal! lol

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Sipdown! (187!)
Woo! I’m getting further from 200! Maybe by the time my Butiki/Lupicia teas come in, I’ll still be under 200!

This is an odd tea but I like it. I was happy to try another cup of it when MissB offered to share some of her teas! Thank you!

Also look! You can click ‘Buy Now!’ I’m happy to see that functionality only because it was misleading before those buttons worked.

Also, sorry I’ve been absent more and more. Life is getting in the way. Work. Trying not to be on my computer all night. Blah. Things are good though! HI GUYS! Just busy

VariaTEA

I might have added a bunch to your package. However, it is all small sample sizes so hopefully it is not too overwhelming

TeaLady441

Ahahahah. I can live with whatever you send me. :) Your samples are very reasonable. (2 big cups, at most!)

Shmiracles

hey!! your absence makes me feel better about my absence! and i’m sure that you have been NOWHERE near as absent as me. i’m MEGA MIA.
but i’m still sipin!
and reading fic.
and yes super busy too.
we we’ll synchronize our return as well.

Sil

not likely… it almost didn’t all fit in the grocery bag… and there’s more incoming

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121 tasting notes

I made a pot of the most disgusting black tea I have ever had. I won’t name it because it’s a favorite for others but it solidified that I cannot drink black teas. I think they’re too strong for my stomach because this one was quite strong and almost made me spit it back out.

I needed a tea that makes me happy so I brewed this immediately after I dumped the vile tea I brewed previously. Now I’m happy and in love with my cinnamon and apples. I’m sad that I am now out of this tea, but I’ll probably place an order for more soon.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec
keychange

Do tell us what the beloved hated tea is! we won’t judge!

Ana

It was Harney’s Golden Monkey. I wanted to give plain blacks another shot but they’re way too strong for my tummy to handle.

keychange

Oh, I haven’t tried that yet, but I intend on it. and for every beloved tea on steepster, there’s at least a small cohort of people who can’t get on the bandwagon. I felt the same way about Harney’s Vanilla Comoro: it seems the whole world loves it, and I just find it very thin and lackluster. The good news is that there’s enough tea in this world for everyone to find something they love.

Ana

Most of Harney’s teas I can’t get behind but I love their Earl Grey so I always order that. It’s the only black tea I think I can drink. Everything else upsets my stomach and then I O.D’d on Santa’s Helper by Davids and I don’t think I can ever drink that again.

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612 tasting notes

I’ve been slacking on getting to this tea because from the very first time I even perused Butiki’s website I had huge hopes for it—holiday latkes and applesauce are one of my all-time favorite comfort foods and the mere existence of such a tea blew my mind! Didn’t want to be disappointed, and wanted to try it at just the right moment when I could really pay attention to it.

The tea is visually stunning—all those pieces of yummy goodness and gorgeous green leaves! And as with every Butiki offering I’ve tried the smell is dead on, transporting me straight to my parents’ kitchen in the evening, snow outside, grating mountains of potatoes, the smell of them frying along with the sweet warmth of applesauce on the stove. So lovely. I love how evocative her teas can be, downright Proustian at times.

The flavor is wonderful too, and Stacy’s directions are spot on: with a bit of sugar you get lots of the applesauce at the front with hints of the potato gently wafting overhead and eventually joining the party full-on; with salt, more potato initially with sweetness subtly entering the picture. You might think the savory with sweet wouldn’t work, would clash perhaps, but they pair beautifully here as in the supper menu of its namesake. And somehow the whole thing manages to be satisfying without being heavy (probably thanks to the mao feng green tea base). Not at all too salty either. Yum.

This is also kind of a wonder to me because the past couple months I’ve remembered something I knew back in high school tea drinking days and forgot in my hiatus from the habit, namely that I almost always despise apple pieces in tea (which is a headscratcher in itself because apples are one of my favorite fruits; I’m from the empire state after all :b). Yet none of that fruit-tarty astringency I loathe is on display here; it’s the difference between spiced, rich applesauce with its full mouthfeel and the standard fruit tea puckeriness. So yay.

EDIT: Someone mentioned eating the leftover chunks of apple and potato, and ‘cause I’m a curious sheep I followed suit and immediately thought of my maternal grandfather—he was an Irish house painter who loved potato so much he’d even eat it raw! In the summer when we’d go over to his house to visit we’d go in the garden in the backyard and eat fresh peas in their pods too. So that was a nice bonus unexpected sense memory.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec
Fuzzy_Peachkin

This tea is one of my absolute favorites! :-)

ifjuly

I was a bit scared to try it also because I started off with Cantaloupe and Cream which is a wonder in how accurate it is, and Pistachio Ice Cream (a flavor which is my total undoing as pistachio is my favorite nut!). Was sure it’d somehow let me down after those. But yeah, it’s wonderful! (:

Chelle

I love eating raw potato with a light sprinkle of salt.
Might have to be brave and try this tea.

Fuzzy_Peachkin

Chelle- You will love it if you love potatoes!

All this potato tea talk today and I’m wondering what it would taste like to add matcha to mashed potatoes…

Chelle

Very interesting idea!

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One of my favorite memories was eating potato pancakes during the special winter celebrations day in elementary school. I remember loving the balance of potato and apple. Plus, it being something I didn’t eat on a regular basis made it even more special. I thought that this was a brilliant idea for a tea. I’m a little nervous to see just what it will taste like, but it smells promising: sweet cinnamon, apple and the strong note of potato.

Sipping… I taste apple with cinnamon first. It’s almost like a very, very light cider.. as if the apple went for a quick dip in the water. The sip quickly changes to a potato finish. It’s not so much a mashed potato kind of flavor, but more like very raw potato slices. As I sip, I realize that this tea is a bit more savory and salty than sweet. The aftertaste is almost a little bit like an apple pastry — dough, butter, cinnamon, apples — only without the sweetness.

I think that could make for a very nice and light apple tea if there were no potatoes… but removing them would take away all of the fun that this tea has. Although I am not sure I would love to drink this each day, I cannot think of a more perfect potato pancake & applesauce tea. It’s so creative, interesting and actually quite tasty!

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806 tasting notes

A very good tea, mine tasted like a good apple cider or at least that’s what I would compare it to as I’ve never had potato pancakes and dislike applesauce. Very tasty cup!

Preparation
1 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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