Bubble Tea

Easy Bubble Tea/Sweet Chilled Milk Tea Recipe

I just made an amazing beverage, and because I would like to share this with people, I am putting it online. There are several recipes for bubble tea or milk tea floating around online, but this one can easily be made with stuff most people have in their kitchens. The addition of powdered sugar to the sugar sauce makes a decent substitute for the tapioca pearls that normally go in bubble tea, since powdered sugar has corn starch, a thickening agent similar to that in tapioca. Play around with the proportions of tea, milk, and sugar syrup to find a mix you'll love!

Bubble Tea Ingredients (makes a single serving):
2 teabags black tea
8 ounces water
4 ounces milk
Sugar Syrup to taste*

Directions:
bring 8 ounces of water to a boil
pour over two teabags black tea, steep until very strong
add desired amount of sugar syrup, stirring until dissolved
chill tea and sugar mixture
when chilled, combine tea and sugar mixture with milk in a blender
pulse on lowest setting quickly until bubbly
serve over ice!

*Sugar Syrup (makes about a single serving):
Sugar Syrup Ingredients:
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
2 teaspoon powdered sugar
4 teaspoons water

combine sugar, powdered sugar, and water in a small saucepan
Heat on medium heat until simmering
Either combine the sauce with the tea immediately or chill until needed (keeps about a month), adding to hot tea when ready

Belief

I cannot believe that God would be so cruel to create a world capable of such evil as can be seen and allow such sickness and injustice as has been suffered to permeate so much of the world while some few lucky people who do not deserve it live in health and wealth and happiness. I refuse to believe in that. I do believe that there is the possibility of good in all people, and if circumstances were right and people were good, the world would be a better place. So, my disbelief is actually a different kind of belief. I have a belief in something that I have some evidence for, but more than that, I have a need to believe it. I like to think that logic is the reason I don't believe in the traditional Christian god. But maybe it's because I have chosen to believe in something different. Does that make me better? I still like to think so. To believe in good seems better than to believe in god.