For the selection of tea set, Lomonosov Daisy Collection teacups set with design pattern in intersecting lines of 22 karat gold accents, inverted African daisies carrying the hues of royal purple and cobalt blue. Spotted the teacup pair with extra two tea saucers at price of 14 euros, later completed the set with a sugar kettle by revisiting Helsinki Secondhand on the first of May 2020. This great hunt confirms my appreciation of Lomonosov ceramics from the era of USSR period 1922-1991, with the backstamps of each masterpiece is either in cobalt blue or orange crimson LFZ monogram, stamped “Made in USSR” in red.
Lomonosov is a producer of hand-painted ceramics based in Saint Petersburg. Also known as The Imperial Porcelain Factory, established by Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov in 1744 and supported by the Russian tsars since Empress Elizabeth. In 1925, in the occasion of the 200th jubilee of the Russian Academy of Science, IPF was given the name of the academy’s founder, Mikhail Lomonosov, which became recognized as Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.
For the history of Spanish Tea CARMENCITA, the founder couple Jesús Navarro Jover and his wife Carmen Valero were inspired their native Novelda, the saffron, were exported to Asia and Africa. In the 1935’s, Jesús Navarro Jover ventured to the Canary Islands and forged the family brand into the international provider of tea leaves and Spanish spices, CARMENCITA.
Frutos Rojos from CARMENCITA contains hibiscus sabdariffa 77%, pieces of strawberry, raspberry, cherry and elder flower 20% plus natural flavour 3%, the taste is soft and fruity, ideal for the rather sweet POCKY biscuits snacks, yellow butter waffles and chocolate caramel tartelettes.
Spring teatime is always for the bites of strawberry POCKY biscuits! Invented by Yoshiaki Koma and first sold in 1966, named after the Japanese onomatopoetic word POKKINポッキン, POCKY is chocolate-coated biscuit sticks produced by Ezaki Glico. During the cherry blossom season among April and May, POCKY Japan promotes the limited edition ‘SAKURA HANAMI’: Pretzel with browned butter scent, coated with cheery milk chocolate, garnished with Japanese sea salt and granulated white sugar; its fresh sweetness is balancing the herbal base of red fruit tea from CARMENCITA.
With quartz liquor glasses from Czechoslovakia transparently display the strawberry pink POCKY biscuits sticks, also clearly crystallise the crimson red and bleak black colours of SUNNY MAID raisins, enhance the hues of fruit tea and Lomonosov porcelain collection.
BONNE MAMAN chocolate caramel tartelettes with a velvety-smooth caramel and crunchy milk chocolate, each petite is carefully wrapped in its own little sachet to conserve all its flavour and retain its crunchy texture. Belgian JULES DESTROPPER Butter Waffles with wheat flour, sugar, 26% butter, barn eggs, corn starch, vanilla extract and sea salt. They are especially delight the taste buds pairing with Strawberry Rose black tea from THÉHUONE. Boiling the water up to 90-97’c, adding a teaspoonful of French honey, after 3-5 minutes the tea is ready to serve.
Mix and match the tea and snack selection worldwide, is the most alluring experiment for the spring tea game of tastes.
