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Thursday, June 16, 2005

[nilesfunnies] tea


...now, to make my tea, I need two good-sized mugs. I boil the kettle.
The hot water goes into one mug first, stays for a few seconds so the
mug is heated, then goes into the second mug. The tea bag goes into the
first, hot, mug, boiling water is poured in, to within a couple of
millimetres of the top, and the two mugs, one containing brewing tea,
and the other containing hot water, are left to stand. After about five
minutes, the mug of brewed tea is placed in the sink, where some new hot
water (freshly re-boiled) from the kettle, is sloshed into it, so it
overflows by about half a mug. This is to stop the well-brewed tea being
too strong. The full-to-overflowing mug is now tilted a little bit, so
it spills out enough tea to allow room for some milk.
Remember the second mug, full of the hot (now not so hot, but still
quite hot) water that was used to warm the first mug? That is now
emptied. The tea bag is fished out from the first ‘brewing’ mug and
placed in the bottom of the empty ‘warm’ mug, where a small splash of
warm milk is poured over it. The effect of the hot tea bag, and
still-warm milk, is to take the chill off the milk... [continues for
quite some while]

HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL makes a cup of tea

Observer Food Magazine

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