Texture: runny, with chunks of lemon rind.
Colour: golden
Taste: yuzu aroma perfume, with a not-unpleasant bitter aftertaste
Sweetness: 3/10
Calories: 50 cal/20g

ゆず茶 or 柚子茶 translates as citron tea or yuzu tea.

The yuzu is a citrus fruit grown in Asia and is well-known for its frost-hardiness.  In Japan, bathers add the whole fruit to their baths in December.  The Japanese use the rinds for flavouring and you can buy salad dressing and other yuzu-flavoured foods in Japan. In North America, it’s become a chef thing and it’s been popping up in fancier salads, desserts and drinks.

Its use as a tea is mostly Korean, where it’s known as yujacha (유자차), which is what I am using here.

However, while the Koreans put about 3-4 teaspoons into hot water to make a common cold-busting beverage, I have been using it for years as a jam.  I am sure it’s good as a tea too but it goes really well on a nice bread intermediary.  I look at it as a fun way to get vitamin C.  This one is the Hanmaru brand, imported in Canada by Coquitlam’s Manna International Trading Ltd.

My photo shows sliced whole wheat bread.  I highly recommend a better bread.  Sliced bread has turned me off jams during the last few months.

(In case you’re interested, the ingredients are: citron fruit, citron extract, fructose, sugar, honey, vitamin C and citric acid.)