Milk Tea

Milk tea is a very sweet tea that is often used in Boba. Boba is a drink consisting of tea and balls of tapioca and honey. This instructable, however, will only tell you how to make the tea. I will hopefully update it as soon as I can procure adequate tapioca balls to make the boba.

You can find some supplies such as flavor powders and tapioca balls at the Bubble Tea Supply website.

Step 1 Gather Materials

For this instructable you will need the following:
-3/4 Black Tea
-5 Tablespoons of Sugar Syrup (More or less to taste)
-A Little Less than 2 Cups of Ice Cubes
-1/2 Cup of Milk (More or less to taste)
-A blender
-Various Measuring Utensils

For the sugar syrup you will need 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup of white and 1/2 cup of brown sugar.

Do not worry, I will tell you how to make the sugar syrup.

Comments

[FlatLinerMEDIC]

Oo magic bullet=)

[PotatoCoffee]

It's called ''Milky Brew''.

[halberdear]

Mmm...This is good!


Hey, where'd it all go? 

[Whaleman]

Oh no! Did the Easter bunny steal it?

 

[halberdear]

 Black tea is just the plain, regular kind of tea, right?

[Whaleman]

Yes, similar to English Breakfast Tea.

 

[Darren.]

MAGIC BULLET FTW!

[JohnJY]

This is a very good Instructable, and is something I plan on making. (And can...)

[Whaleman]

Thanks. Poe is one of the best poets, isn't he?

 

[fake_faux]

I LOVE drinking taro bubble tea at Jen Cafe on Newport place, China Town , London. I make a mango version at home and the brand of tapioca pearls I use is manufactured by WuFuYuan (www.wufuyuan.net). Hope this is of some help.

[SageMinto]

That sounds delicious! I've tried a mango boba slush at the Lollicup in my town. I've been having difficulty finding a recipe for the regular tea. Would you mind posting the recipe for your mango boba tea?

[Whaleman]

I like taro, too! I found a place, bubble tea supply, that sells powder and tapioca. The tapioca is about $4 per pound.

[emergencydpt.com]

How much milk?!

[Whaleman]

'For this instructable you will need the following:
-3/4 Black Tea
-5 Tablespoons of Sugar Syrup (More or less to taste)
-A Little Less than 2 Cups of Ice Cubes
-1/2 Cup of Milk (More or less to taste)
-A blender
-Various Measuring Utensils'

[ILIKEPIE333]

looks good, I'll have to make it sometime

[ILIKEPIE333]

you have a magic bullet too?

[Whaleman]

Sorta. It's starting to wear out. We use it a lot.

[ILIKEPIE333]

We havent used ours very much, at all... it seemed like a good idea to get it at the time...

[porcupinemamma]

I found this link for supplies <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bubbleteasupply.com/store/store.php3">http://www.bubbleteasupply.com/store/store.php3</a><br/>

[Whaleman]

I found that site almost exactly a year ago, though it'd probably be a good idea to put a link in there somewhere.

[Pandatracks]

Mmmm this recipe is delicious, I just made some! Thanks!

[cowscankill]

hmm... nice and the syrup might be useful in other drinks too. is there a way to flavor the syrup?

[Whaleman]

Maybe by boiling something else with the sugar and more sugar, but it has a pretty strong flavor, being a 1 to 1 ratio of sugar to water.

[cowscankill]

boiling something... like boil 1/3 grapes, 1/3 sugar, 1/3 water? the grapes might make it watery, and i was thinking that it would be SOOOOOO easy if i just put flavor in corn syrup. after all, corn syrup is mostly sugar water (i think) one sec, lemme go check... well, i just checked trhe label. it is very NOT helpful. it said light cornsyrup is made with light cornsyrup,highfructose cornsyrup, sugar, and real vanilla. well i guess i could use it to get the syrup consistancy...

[Whaleman]

I wouldn't do a third, and boiling stuff doesn't usually give flavor. I was thinking just adding a packet of a kind of tea or something, but I don't know how well that would work. Like I said, the flavor of sugar is pretty strong, especially in such quantities as to make the water a syrupy consistency.

[cowscankill]

Kool-Aid powder and corn syrup! Or my Mango Iced Tea powder and corn syrup!

[cowscankill]

hmmm........ well i dont know what to say. try again later (brain fried)

[popomaster]

my aunt works in a place that sells bubble tea only! It taste so awesome! :D Also, I have tried this before, it tastes really good

[kaerius]

is sugar syrup the same thing as maple syrup?

[Whaleman]

No. It has no maple flavouring. It consists of, as the instructable says, 1/4 white sugar, 1/4 brown sugar, and 1/2 water that has been cooked in a pan for awhile.

[apples!!!!!]

i like boba :)

[you know me]

NICE FIND i love this drink! thanks

[bobo_the_clown]

Mmmmm.... Kirkland Signature milk. I love Costco.

[Whaleman]

The best kind there is!

[Sergeant Crayon]

It's Bubble Tea!!! (Without the bubbles, of course) Man, I've only ever bought the stuff, but it's nectar of the gods.

[Whaleman]

Indeed it is nectar of the gods! I need to find some of the 1/4" tapioca balls for the boba; I have recipes for lots of weird stuff, but I don't have the ingredients : (

[ikoda]

Magic Bullet rocks! ;P

[Whaleman]

Yes, especially ones that are on sale for 1/3 the original price! +P

[conankun]

Nice! How/Where did you got it on sale for 1/3 of the original price?

[Whaleman]

My mum had a 20% off coupon, and it was already on sale (I don't know why they let us use the coupon...).