09-13-2011, 04:40 PM
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I forgot my claim to fame.
My uncle (now retired) was an Editor for Oxford Press in New York. During his few years there he edited some good factual books. There is or was a lady in the States who gave lectures on tea and wrote a book, he edited.
Having lived in the States since '63 he noticed his tea drinking has changed and took on board this lady's 'tips'.
We (Mark and I) stayed with my Aunt and Uncle after a trip to visit friends in Bermuda. We were sat in the kitchen eating breakfast while my Aunt was making a pot with the tea I brought. She left to finish getting dressed, but put the egg timer on as she went. We watch the timer, puzzled.
Off goes the timer, my uncle rushes in and begins pouring the tea out into bone china cups at high speed. My uncle explained the importance of correctly timed brewed tea. We couldn't stop laughing.
We made the next pot and all the ones after that to prove we just wait-pour. None of this messing about, so long as the pot has been warmed and left to stand long enough to find the milk, mugs and sugar (No1 son) its ready. Sod the china mugs, makes the tea go cold too quick.
When we visited in 2009, my Aunt left us the pot, 'you make it'. I notice they still had the timer.
My uncle (now retired) was an Editor for Oxford Press in New York. During his few years there he edited some good factual books. There is or was a lady in the States who gave lectures on tea and wrote a book, he edited.
Having lived in the States since '63 he noticed his tea drinking has changed and took on board this lady's 'tips'.
We (Mark and I) stayed with my Aunt and Uncle after a trip to visit friends in Bermuda. We were sat in the kitchen eating breakfast while my Aunt was making a pot with the tea I brought. She left to finish getting dressed, but put the egg timer on as she went. We watch the timer, puzzled.
Off goes the timer, my uncle rushes in and begins pouring the tea out into bone china cups at high speed. My uncle explained the importance of correctly timed brewed tea. We couldn't stop laughing.
We made the next pot and all the ones after that to prove we just wait-pour. None of this messing about, so long as the pot has been warmed and left to stand long enough to find the milk, mugs and sugar (No1 son) its ready. Sod the china mugs, makes the tea go cold too quick.
When we visited in 2009, my Aunt left us the pot, 'you make it'. I notice they still had the timer.
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