Tea Blends: Witch's Brew

In addition to a pantheon of themed deities, Crossover has a few different types of magic users: Witches, Wizards, and Wonder Workers. I'm unlikely to try to make tea blends for every different theme and header in the game, but I had fun playing around with Witch and Wizard, and will likely give Wonder a try as well. For this week, enjoy Witch's Brew! One of my favorites. (I'm partial to pu-erh and cinnamon, as a general rule.)

Witch's Brew (a pu-erh blend)

The blend:
For every teaspoon of pu-erh, 

 - 1/4 teaspoon basil
 - 1/4 teaspoon rose petals

 - 1/4 teaspoon whole peppercorns

 - 1/4 teaspoon of orange rind

 - 1/4 stick of cinnamon
Of all these blends, this is the least finicky about ratios. Mix and match and throw things in willy-nilly as you prefer. It matches the spirit of the blend better anyway.

Steep at boiling for ~5 minutes. You can't really oversteep.

Notes on ingredients:

 - The pu-erh I used here is from MEM Tea Imports. It's far from my favorite. It's weaker and has less depth than most I'm used to, but I can buy it in bulk, which is useful..

 - Rose petals from Spices and Tease.

Notes on design:
This was actually one of the first blends I ever tried, shortly after the Life tea and before finalizing Death. It's a number of my favorite flavors thrown into a pot to see what happens, (the answer is deliciousness), but it's also very nearly Death's base (pu-erh) paired with Life's flavorings (basil, orange, pepper, rose). Cinnamon is the only additional ingredient, added both to make the initial brew look even more like a haphazard mix of sticks and leaves and because I adore cinnamon and would add it to everything if not stopped (this will be a common theme in my blends). 

The final mix is smooth and malty and comforting while maintaining the bright tangy spice of the Life blend, and rumors that this is the blend that had me start buying pu-erh in bulk are entirely true.

Enjoy! Next week, far more finicky Wizards and their troubling obsession with fire.