And you thought nothing could make the British ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ tremble 👍😃😄
Tea.
It is quite possibly the most British solution to any problem faced. Stressed? Have a cup of tea. Ruthlessly dumped? Tea will make it better. What is the first thing people do when they get in to work – often even if they were late? Make a cup of tea. What’s the best kind of procrastination? Making a pot of tea.
I am a tea lover. Unfortunately, I have been told many a time, that perhaps tea ‘brewing’ is not my forte. Something that should be a relatively simple task – bag + water + milk is enough to cause high levels of distress. But somehow, tea brewing often becomes a most stressful task. For example, when you ask someone how they take their tea and they proceed to give you an intense description of they like it.
What does someone mean when they say a dash of milk?…
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You only have to look at how tea was made prior to the introduction of the tea bag to make a proper cuppa. Would you have put milk in the cup and then added loose tea? no. There is also a subtle difference in flavour as to whether you put the milk in first or last. Also by adding the milk to the tea you can control the amount of milk that goes in according to how long the tea has brewed (in Britain we also call it letting the tea ‘draw’). Tea stops brewing properly once it meets the milk so what does that tell you about putting the tea bag in the milk before adding hot water? And the water should be coming to or going off the boil – not boiling. I love tea, I drink around eight mugs a day but I’m afraid nothing could induce me to drink it without sugar or cold, ugh,ugh, ugh. 🙂
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Cold Tea? 😜😜😜 Thanks for the additional brewing info Lindsey 👍😃
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Making tea for North Americans was always easy. Making tea for the British – not so easy!
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Indeed Darlene and don’t forget that each area in UK has its own preference 😄😄😄
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Yes it is stressful, nothing worse than a bad tea.
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Though an American, I enjoy brewing loose tea. I don’t drink coffee. I picked up brewing loose tea for the two and a half years I spent doing my masters in Ireland.
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Ah well, we’ve all got our weaknesses Kurt 😄😄😄
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