Please suggest a cookie and flavored tea combination--?

Sable cookies and earl grey are one of my favorite combinations. I make a small batch of cookies every week cause they're my favorite. :)

Go to a real tea shop (somewhere that they don't sell tea in a bag). An ounce is a good amount of tea but you can buy a small decorative can that will hold about 4 ounces. Expect to pay between $3 and $10 per ounce. I think the greatest flavor ranges are in the oolongs. Get a good quality Formosa oolong. Green teas are unfermented. Black teas are totally fermented. Oolongs are semi fermented. This does not give them a taste between black and green, but a unique taste of there own. I like greens too but a green (or a white) will not stand up to cookies. (Obviously, this is a matter of opinion.) A pu-erh will stand up, but is an acquired taste, and I would not recommend it as a gift except as a small amount. If you want to make a real impression, get a presentation tea (these are often in green only). A presentation tea is a little ball that when put in a pot of hot water, will open into a flower. They will start at around $1 a ball. You contemplate the flower while drinking its tea. Anyway, I like butter cookies with tea. Something that is smooth in your mouth without being overly sweet. (The tea shop will probably have a label to put on the tea with directions. Green teas and oolongs should not be made with boiling water. The water is to hot and destroys some of the flavor. The tea shop will know what temperature each tea needs.)

As a suggestion, your green teas should come from China (the best are the imperial teas), your oolongs should come from Formosa, and your blacks from India. Japanese teas are an acquired taste (they taste grassy). Kenyan teas can be good in some cases. The tea shop should be able to help you.