Recipes

Diced strawberries suspended in a trembling jelly, served in small glasses after dinner: Dammann Frères’ Merveilles Herbal Tea N°480, caffeine-free verbena and lime blossom scented with strawberry, raspberry and rose, sets into a light, floral dessert.

Clementine segments, a ripe banana and cool yogurt whirl together in the blender for a bright start to brunch; Dammann Frères’ Maté Clémentine N°588, green maté with apple and clementine essential oil, adds lively citrus and a natural lift of caffeine.

Butter browning to a nutty gold, then a small green stick tipped into the almond batter: Dammann Frères’ Matcha Tradition, harvested and packed in Japan in pre-measured sticks, colors these financiers with its vivid, vegetal note.

Puffed from the oven and dusted with powdered sugar, a clafoutis that smells like a Parisian macaron: Dammann Frères’ Macaron Cassis Violette Tea Bags N°313 infuse the milk with blackcurrant, bitter almond and violet over a fresh green tea.

Instead of coffee, the ladyfingers soak up a cool, fragrant tea before disappearing under mascarpone, strawberries and passion fruit; Dammann Frères’ L’Ôriental Tea N°2, green tea with passion fruit, bush peach and wild strawberry, gives the dessert its gently exotic air.

The spoon taps, the caramel shatters, and beneath it the cream carries apricot, bergamot and vanilla: Joli Coeur Tea N°656 from Dammann Frères, a Chinese Sencha with a lovely gourmet sweetness, has steeped in it before baking.

Lift the lid after ten minutes of rest and a floral steam escapes from the pot; cooked in Dammann Frères’ Jasmin Tea Bags, a full-bodied Chinese green tea softened by white jasmine, the rice becomes a fragrant bed for steamed fish.

Little spheres of frozen honeydew clink in the glass in place of ice cubes, then the chilled tea pours in with its scent of white flowers: Dammann Frères’ Jasmin Chung Hao Iced Tea N°13, made for a summer lunch in the garden.

Straight from the oven, the fruit still bubbles beneath a golden crumble; the Chinese green tea in Dammann Frères’ Jardin du Trocadéro Candy Box, flavored with rhubarb, strawberry and wild strawberry, has slipped into the filling and waits in the cup beside it.

Tall glasses of golden liquor, pale slices of white peach, ice chiming against the rim: Dammann Frères’ Jardin du Luxembourg Tea N°215, a green oolong scented with rose, jasmine and plum blossom, brings a Paris garden to a summer table.

When rhubarb softens into ribbons and strawberries blush in the pan, the fruity perfume of Dammann Frères’ Jardin Bleu Tea N°3, a black tea with rhubarb, strawberry and wild strawberry, is already there to meet them.

Cocoa dust on the fingertips and the scent of cinnamon and cloves filling the kitchen: steeped in warm cream, Dammann Frères’ Infusion de Noël N°467, rich with cocoa beans, cardamom and ginger, gives these truffles the taste of a winter evening.