That video is NOT tea. It was milk and sugar with a splash of tea flavoring. Good lord she added the whole container of sugar! and 3/4 of the cup was milk.
Having a British mum, I was raised on tea also. I received my first "cuppa" when I was 13 months old from my grandad and have been drinking hot tea (with milk and sugar) for my entire life. In my younger years my mum would have elevenses with tea or coffee and biscuits. The coffee was made with boiled milk ,instant coffee and sugar. We would get care packages from our English family consisting of Typhoo tea, biscuits and other British snacks. During my parents later years, my dad used to take a container of hot tea to my mum's work at Ft. Lewis and within a month had her whole office staff enjoying "English tea." Fortunately, stores in the States started carrying Typhoo tea, so we didn't run short.
In my own family, my children were indoctrinated to Typhoo tea a 13 months, as I was, and now we have a ritual for my grandchildren when they turn 13 months that I make Typhoo tea for them. My tea is made the old fashion way : boil water in the kettle, add tea to the pot, add boiling water, cover with cosey, add milk and sugar to the cups and after steeping serve the tea.
And yes, I do use a microwave..... to warm the cups with the milk before pouring the tea.
I do remember trying to make some iced tea in my younger years (strictly verboten) and thought I was going to be excommunicated from the family.
Waste of a teabag to only make one cup. And ma mere from Angleterre always emphasized warming the pot first with a good swirl of boiling water then poured out before the bag and and remaining boiling water went in.
A good strong cup is as much of a jolt as coffee and a lot easier to make. Ultra-strong tea was a "high" enjoyed by the criminal class in the Gulag for example; only they could afford black market tea of course.
Quite a history tea: silver, opium wars, clipper ships etc, and the recycling of used tea leaves and the various adulterations practised by some of the finest "names" in the business.
Last edited by Surpmil; 01-26-2024 at 11:02 PM.
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Interesting fact: In my first year of college chemistry one of our labs was to isolate the caffeine from equal weights of tea and coffee. We brewed up a pot of each and began the process and were surprised to find that for equal weight, tea had twice as much caffeine as coffee. I stumbled into the lab early that morning feeling the effects of a few pints the night before with my Rugby team and figured the pure caffeine would be a good pick me up so I dabbed a finger into the dish and licked the caffeine off. The effects were instantaneous and profound!
Disregard the health & safety aspects of swinging boiling water over one's head & shoulder region !!!!!
I suggest we coin a new term here: "Crockadee" for an Aussie who's living up to the Crocodile Dundee image just a wee bit too much!
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
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