Boy!... am I old! My mother, from Scotland, used loose tea, a teapot, and a wire strainer. Served with lemon or milk (added last). Her sister would then read your fortune from the tiny residue leaves in your cup!!!!
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
My parents drank British style tea when I was a kid, but for some reason they favored Carnation Condensed Milk with three of the little cubes of sugar. I do not know if that was attributable to time spent in a British administered Displaced Persons camp in Austria right after the war or what. One thing for certain, he had Thermos of that tea in his lunch pail when he went to work every day.
Emil,
Here we go.....................one thing in the good old days was the 24 Hour ration packs and the tube of condensed milk.
On a cold night when you needed something quick to jolt the taste buds and lift your spirits, a good old squeeze of the tube was great in a brew of English tea, not that crap you Yanks tossed into the Boston Harbour ha ha!! I know I'm 3 days late................happy fourth July! When you think, that was in the days when you hadn't even seen coffee!!
Last edited by Gil Boyd; 07-07-2020 at 11:39 AM.
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA