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    "excerpt": "Flaky Sicilian-style shaved ice built on strong lemon tea, sweetened and sharpened with juice and zest.",
    "content_text": "Granita is Sicily's answer to a sweltering afternoon: a bowl of coarse, flaky ice you rake up with a fork rather than churn like ice cream. Lemon tea makes a lovely base for it, because the brew already carries the citrus and just enough tannin to stop the whole thing tasting like flavoured water.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the Lemon Tea Granita recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/frozen-pops-for-kids/lemon-tea-granita/The method is forgiving. Brew strong, sweeten while warm, sharpen with juice and zest, then freeze and drag a fork through it every twenty minutes. You finish with around 600ml, enough for six small scoops, and the only real skill is remembering to go back and stir.",
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            "prep": "2 hr 15 min",
            "serves": "Makes 6 scoops",
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                "3 tea bags of Cotterley Lemon Tea",
                "400ml freshly drawn water at 100C, just off the boil",
                "70g caster sugar",
                "60ml fresh lemon juice",
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                "Stir through the lemon juice and the grated zest.",
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                "Freeze for an hour, then drag a fork right through to break up the first ice crystals.",
                "Keep forking every 20 minutes for two more rounds, roughly two hours in all, until the ice is loose and flaky.",
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