Jun 02, 2025
Building the Best Biscuit Tea ever!
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Protocol Citation: georgia whitton, Emma Ganley 2025. Building the Best Biscuit Tea ever!. protocols.io https://protocols.io/view/building-the-best-biscuit-tea-ever-g2fbbybip
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Created: June 02, 2025
Last Modified: June 02, 2025
Protocol Integer ID: 219331
Keywords: Tea, British, Brew
Disclaimer
I have worked with Yorkshire Tea company on brand deals. There is a patent existing with M&S [#578329743892]
Abstract
Instructions for how to make the the best cup of tea - and it's not just any tea - it's a biscuit FLAVOURED tea paired with the best biscuit ever.
Materials
Water
Water kettle
Your favourite mug
Biscuit Tea teabags
Non-dairy milk with high fat content, ideally the barista versions
Spoon
M&S Dark Chocolate Digestive
Safety warnings
Be careful when pouring boiling hot water, carrying your mug of tea, and ensure it has cooled a bit before you drink it.
Heating the water
Heating the water
Fill kettle with water & switch on to boil (ideally water should reach 100 °C )
Boil water in the kettle
Note
If you do not have a kettle, you can boil water in a pot on a stove (be careful not to leave it to boil dry). Or I have seen people sometimes boil water in a mug in the microwave - not my ideal approach, but it would also work.
Remember to always close the lid as to not steam your kitchen up.
While kettle heats up, place a Biscuit Tea tea-bag in your favourite mug (extra points for using a Starbucks City Mug from their Collections)
Put tea-bag into mug
Brewing your tea
Brewing your tea
5m
5m
Pour boiling water over the tea-bag in your mug until about 2cm from the top of the mug
Make sure you watch the video before trying at home!
Leave the tea-bag to steep in the hot water for 00:05:00
5m
Adding milk & removing the tea-bag
Adding milk & removing the tea-bag
3m
3m
Add some non-dairy milk to your mug (about 0.5 cm).
Note
the best milk to use is oat, but if you have soy or almond on hand this will do. Just nothing too flavourful as to not overwhelm the taste of the biscuit teabag
Use the spoon to remove the tea bag from the mug
Note
if you squeeze the teabag on the side you will make it more bitter. I would advise in order to still taste the subtle biscuit brew you should drip dry the teabag and quickly move to the bin.
Remove tea-bag
Use spoon to stir your tea:
Note
if you want to stir the tea most efficiently you might find the following video on the fluid mechanics of stirirng tea relevant.
Drink and enjoy
Drink and enjoy
3m
3m
Wait for your tea to cool to a temperature that you can safely drink it at
Drink your tea!
Expected result
tea should be a warm golden beige colour, should smell subtly of biscuit.
Drink and enjoy
Acknowledgements
The Yorkshire Tea - Biscuit Tea was originally shared with me via my partner. Thanks to my grandmother for the introduction to M&S dark chocolate digestive biscuits.