How to Make Tea

How to Make Tea

Ingredients:
3 teaspoons tea
2 cups boiling water

Directions:
Scald an earthern or china teapot.
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Put in tea, and pour on boiling water. Let stand on back of range or in a warm place five
minutes. Strain and serve immediately, with or without sugar and milk. Avoid second
steeping of
leaves with addition of a few fresh ones. If this is done, so large an amount of tannin is
extracted
that various ills are apt to follow.
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Chapter III − BEVERAGES 38
The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
Five o’Clock Tea
When tea is made in dining or drawing room, a “Five o’Clock Tea−kettle” (Samovar), and
tea−ball or teapot are used.
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Russian Tea
Follow recipe for making tea. Russian Tea may be served hot or cold, but always without
milk.
A thin slice of lemon, from which seeds have been removed, or a few drops of lemon−juice,
is
allowed for each cup. Sugar is added according to taste. In Russia a preserved strawberry to
each cup is considered an improvement. We imitate our Russian friends by garnishing with a
candied cherry.
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De John’s Tea
Follow recipe for making tea and serve hot, allowing three whole cloves to each cup. Sugar is
added according to taste.
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Iced Tea