Yaupon Preparation
Yaupon can be steeped like tea, brewed like coffee or even prepared in the same style as yerba mate.
Apple pie in a cup! Smooth, delicious yaupon tea with tart apple juice and warm spices (cinnamon, cloves, and allspice). Lightly sweetened with brown sugar. All real ingredients—no flavorings! Just add water (hot or iced), or try it with sparkling water. Makes a great cocktail mixer--try rum or whiskey, or mix one bottle of concentrate to one bottle of red wine and heat gently for the easiest mulled wine ever!
Instructions: Shake well. Mix 2 tbsp per 8oz of water. Or entire jar with 7 cups of water. Refrigerate after opening and use within two weeks.
Ingredients: yaupon tea (filtered water, yaupon), brown sugar, concentrated apple juice, concentrated orange juice, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
Also try our Dark Roast Yaupon Tea and Light Roast Yaupon Tea and Yoco (Yaupon+Cacao)
Yaupon can be steeped like tea, brewed like coffee or even prepared in the same style as yerba mate.
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The drinking of yaupon goes back into the time of the ancients, before the cataloging of history and the arrival of Europeans in the New World. Yaupon, the only caffeinated plant native to North America and a relative of yerba mate and guayusa, is an inconspicuous little evergreen that grows along the coastal regions of the Southern United States and the Atlantic coast.