Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags
Pure is doing real work in that name. With one botanical in the bag and nothing propping it up, you soon learn if you like camomile itself or just the blend somebody built around it. Expect apple and dry hay and not a great deal else. There is no tea leaf in it, so this is caffeine-free by nature rather than decaffeinated. Two things worth knowing: camomile is a daisy-family flower, so take care if you react to ragweed or chrysanthemums; and eighty bags only stops looking excessive once this is the thing you hand round at the end of an evening.
Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, in brief.
Twinings Pure Camomile Tea is camomile and nothing else, in the eighty-bag household box, picked into the teas.co.uk curator selection because an evening habit should be bought in the big box rather than twenty bags at a time.
There is no tea leaf in it, so it is caffeine-free by nature rather than decaffeinated. Brew it the opposite way to a green tea: water at a rolling boil, four to five minutes, covered.
Twinings Pure Camomile Tea in the eighty-bag box is the household size of the most widely drunk herbal infusion in Britain. Pure camomile means exactly that: camomile and nothing else, with no mint, no vanilla, no honey flavouring and no botanical supporting cast. That plainness is the entire point of the product, and it is why people who drink camomile in the evening tend to drink this one rather than a blend.
Camomile is not tea. There is no tea leaf in the bag at all, which is why it is caffeine-free without being decaffeinated, and why it behaves so differently in the mug. It takes boiling water rather than the 80 degrees a green tea wants, it takes four or five minutes rather than two, and it gets better with a longer steep instead of worse. Almost every mistake people make with camomile comes from treating it like tea.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is ours, built from the current pack format and what Twinings publish about their camomile. A box of camomile with eighty bags needs 1 to 2 working days before it leaves us. Below, the Q and A tab answers the usual questions, from water temperature to whether camomile is really tea.
Curator’s notes
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If camomile is an evening habit rather than an occasional cup, the big box is close to half the running cost for exactly the same infusion.
The Story Behind Twinings
Twinings is the family tea house trading from London since 1706, and its herbal range is the one most British households meet first. There is no blending craft on display here and no story about a signature recipe, because there is only one ingredient; what the brand is selling is consistency, which on a single-botanical infusion means flower heads of an even grade rather than a bag of dust and stalk.
For reference, the twenty-bag box of the same infusion on our shelf is 30g, which is 1.5g a bag, but we are not going to present arithmetic from one pack as a measurement of another.
Packaging: Eighty bags come in one box, and the bags and the carton can go different ways at disposal, so read the pack and ask your local authority.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count: eighty bags, four times the standard Twinings herbal box, which is the right size if camomile is something you drink most evenings.
- Caffeine-free by nature: it has no tea leaf in it, which means nothing needed decaffeinating. That is a different thing from a decaf tea and it matters if you are avoiding caffeine entirely.
- Boiling water, four minutes, covered: the opposite of how you treat a green tea, and the single reason most weak camomile is weak.
- What it is not: not a sleep blend. It is one botanical with no valerian, no passionflower and nothing else added. Twinings sells separate blends for that and this is not one of them.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Twinings
Twinings has been blending tea on London's Strand since 1706, the same address, three centuries later. Holders of the royal warrant for tea since 1837, they're the brand most-associated with Earl Grey, English Breakfast, and the polished afternoon-tea aesthetic. Wide flavoured-tea range; ethical sourcing through the Twinings Community Needs Assessment programme.
Packaging: Eighty bags come in one box, and the bags and the carton can go different ways at disposal, so read the pack and ask your local authority.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
Camomile is forgiving in one direction and unforgiving in the other. You can steep it for ten minutes and it will not turn bitter; you cannot brew it in water that has stopped boiling and expect anything but a pale, thin cup. Flower heads need real heat to open.
The Evening Mug
The Two-Bag Nightcap
Made with this tea
The Evening Mug
The Evening Mug is built on Twinings Pure Camomile Tea.
- 1 bag Twinings Pure Camomile Tea
- 250ml water at a rolling boil
- A saucer to cover the mug
- Boil the kettle fresh and pour straight away, while the water is still at a rolling boil.
- Pour 250ml over one bag of Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags.
- Cover the mug using a saucer, and give it four to five minutes.
- Lift the bag out and drink it clear.
What you'll end up with: A clear gold cup with real apple sweetness in it. If it comes out pale and thin, the water had stopped boiling.
The Two-Bag Nightcap
How to make The Two-Bag Nightcap with Twinings Pure Camomile Tea.
- 2 bags Twinings Pure Camomile Tea
- 250ml water at a rolling boil
- 1 teaspoon clear honey
- Steep 2 bags in a single 250ml mug for five minutes, covered. Two bags beats one bag left in longer.
- Press both bags gently against the side of the mug before lifting them out.
- Stir in 1 teaspoon of clear honey while the cup is still hot enough to dissolve it properly.
What you'll end up with: A rounder, fuller camomile with real body to it. Eighty bags is what makes using two at a time reasonable.
Iced Camomile and Apple Jug
How to make an Iced Camomile and Apple Jug with Twinings Pure Camomile Tea.
- 4 bags Twinings Pure Camomile Tea
- 400ml boiling water, plus 500ml cold
- 1 apple, sliced
- Ice
- Brew 4 bags strong in 400ml of boiling water for six minutes, then lift the bags out.
- Cool, then top up with 500ml of cold water in a jug.
- Add the sliced apple, then chill the jug for an hour before pouring it over ice.
What you'll end up with: The apple note in the flower and the apple in the jug reinforcing each other, with no caffeine and no sugar in it at all.
Camomile and Honey Syrup
How to make Camomile and Honey Syrup with Twinings Pure Camomile Tea.
- 5 bags Twinings Pure Camomile Tea
- 200ml boiling water
- 150g caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon clear honey
- Steep 5 bags in 200ml of boiling water for ten minutes to make a strong infusion.
- Dissolve the sugar into the hot liquid over a low heat, then stir in the honey off the heat.
- Bottle and keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.
What you'll end up with: A floral syrup for sparkling water, lemonade or a spoonful over fruit. Camomile takes a very long steep without turning bitter, which is what makes this work.
Camomile Custard
How to make Camomile Custard with Twinings Pure Camomile Tea.
- 4 bags Twinings Pure Camomile Tea
- 500ml whole milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 60g caster sugar
- Heat the milk to just below a simmer, drop in the 4 bags, take it off the heat and leave to infuse for fifteen minutes.
- Squeeze the bags out and reheat the milk gently.
- Whisk the yolks with the sugar, pour the warm milk over whisking constantly, then return to a low heat and stir until it coats the back of a spoon.
- Strain and serve warm over poached fruit or a crumble.
What you'll end up with: A pale, softly floral custard that tastes of apples and hay. Infusing into milk rather than water is where camomile surprises people.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Camomile flowers | The whole of it | Everything in the cup. The soft apple sweetness, the gentle floral note, the clear gold liquor and the light body all come from this single botanical. |
| Anything else | None declared in the product name | This is sold as a pure camomile, so there is no mint, vanilla, honey flavouring or supporting botanical in it. Confirmation comes from the ingredient list on the current pack. |
Pack: Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags; a naturally caffeine-free herbal infusion with no tea leaf in it. Look on the current UK pack for the net weight, and for the best before date.
Camomile flowers are the characterising component shown; the rest of the body is whatever base has no quantity given.
Sourcing & blend. Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706, whose herbal range is the one most British households meet first. There is no blending craft to describe on a single-botanical infusion and no signature recipe behind it; what a brand is selling here is consistency of grade from box to box.
What's in Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags, and what isn't:
- In: camomile flowers in eighty single-serve bags, and on a pure infusion that should be the whole of the ingredient list.
- No caffeine at all: not decaffeinated, but caffeine-free by nature, because there is no tea leaf in the bag for caffeine to come from.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Pure Camomile Tea, 80 Tea Bags, please cite teas.co.uk.
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