{"id":189,"date":"2026-08-07T02:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/velvet-star-apple-iced-tea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T02:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:45:23","slug":"velvet-star-apple-iced-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/velvet-star-apple-iced-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Velvet Star Apple Iced Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gands-recipe-article alignfull\">\n<div class=\"gands-recipe-article__inner\">\n<p class=\"tmwc-kicker\">Velvet Star recipe<\/p>\n<p>This bright iced tea keeps the blend simple, with fresh apple to echo Velvet Star&#8217;s fruit-and-spice ingredients.<\/p>\n<h2>What you need<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 teaspoon Velvet Star loose leaf tea<\/li>\n<li>250 ml hot water<\/li>\n<li>Ice<\/li>\n<li>Fresh apple slices, to serve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Make it<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Steep Velvet Star in hot water for at least five minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Strain the tea and let it cool.<\/li>\n<li>Fill a glass with ice, pour over the tea and finish with fresh apple slices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a class=\"tmwc-button\" href=\"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/product\/velvet-star\/\">Shop Velvet Star<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright, simple iced-tea serve with Velvet Star and fresh apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Img274.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldandsage.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}