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INTRODUCTION
• Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia Sinesis
plant to hot water.
• The term also refers to the plant itself.
• After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling,
slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many enjoy.
ORIGIN & HISTORY
Before we proceed lets learn some thing interesting about the history
and origin of this wonderful herb called tea.
Story of tea began in ancient China over 5,000 years ago. According to
legend, the Shen Nong, an early emperor was a skilled ruler, creative
scientist, and patron of the arts.
His far-sighted edicts required, among other things, that all drinking
water be boiled as a hygienic precaution.
One summer day while visiting a distant region of his realm, he
and the court stopped to rest. In accordance with his ruling, the
servants began to boil water for the court to drink.
Dried leaves from the near by bush fell into the boiling water,
and a brown liquid was infused into the water.
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3. Use good quality tea.
4. Use fresh water. Stale water makes stale tea.
5. Make sure you warm your tea pot before adding
hot water and tea leaves.
6. Steep the tea in water that is neither under boiled
nor over boiled.
7. Use one teaspoon \ teabag of tea per person and one
extra for the pot.
8. Let the tea infuse for the right amount of
time.
9. Use teapots made of Earthenware, Stainless Steel
and China. Avoid ones made of Tin.
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Stainless Steel
10. Don’t add milk to the tea too soon. Wait for the
last possible minute.
THE GOLDEN RULES OF MAKING TEA
BY GEORGE ORWELL
• First of all, one should use Indian or Ceylonese tea
• Secondly, tea should be made in small quantities
• Thirdly, the pot should be warmed beforehand.
• Fourthly, the tea should be strong.
• Fifthly, the tea should be put straight into the pot
• Sixthly, one should take the teapot to the kettle and not the other way
about
• Seventhly, after making the tea, one should stir it, or better, give the pot a
good shake
• Eighthly, one should drink out of a good breakfast cup
• Ninthly, one should pour the cream off the milk before using it for tea.
• Tenthly, one should pour tea into the cup first
• Lastly, tea — unless one is drinking it in the Russian style — should be
drunk without sugar