Constant Comment® Spice Cake

Ingredients:
½ cup milk
5 Bigelow “Constant Comment”® Tea Bags
½ cup unsalted butter (1 stick)
1 cup sugar
3 eggs, room temperature
1-2/3 cups flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Confectioners sugar

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a 9″ round cake pan.
Combine milk and tea bags in a small saucepan. Heat over medium/low heat until bubbles form around [...]

Market research publisher, Packaged Facts, reported this month that tea sales are expected to nearly double over the next five years.  More specifically, by 2012, the market is projected to grow from its current $7.4 billion to $15 billion.  Total tea sales are comprised of instant, leaf, liquid concentrate and ready-to-drink.
Why such a marked increase [...]

Are you ready for the wave of the future for teapots?  Looking for an exceptional holiday gift?  Look no further.  Gizmodo blog has shown us the next wave of teapots.  You can pre-order this teapot on Joey Roth’s website .  Enjoy!

Fairfield, CT, November 26, 2007 – Bigelow Tea, one of the nation’s leading producers of specialty teas, believes in satisfying their consumers while creating long lasting relationships and can accomplish both of those goals by connecting with emerging tea drinkers and established tea enthusiasts on Facebook.
Facebook.com is a social network that unites people with friends [...]

Tea has long been associated with the arts. Performance art, architecture and pottery all play a part in the history of the beverage. Today, that history comes alive as museums around the country offer opportunities for us to experience this art for ourselves.
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It was a long and storied crossing that brought the princess. Catherine of Braganza, to her new home in England. When she arrived, the first thing she asked for was a cup a tea. None was available. The English offered her a glass of ale in its place. It didn’t do the trick, and she [...]

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This is from one of our creative Bigelow Tea supporters…what’s your story?
I have been a big fan of Bigelow for some time.  I put together a Tea Party Baby Shower for a friend, and the obvious choice for the favors was Bigelow!!  I love that the bags are indivudually wrapped, and you can find one [...]

How exciting, we just won an award from the Bridgeport Regional Business Council for all our efforts to support the environment.  Upon winning this prestigious honor, the BRBC came into our facility last week to see some of our good work and they created a 90 second video for the award dinner coming up on [...]

It starts with a romantic story which explains how tea first got to England.  A foreign princess, Catherine of Braganza, who had grown up in the royal Portuguese court where tea was quite popular, was a major force how in how it became fashionable even though the queen-consort of Charles II of England wasn’t actually [...]