Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — How to Make Tea. [ARTICLE]

How to Make Tea.

There is a great waste among consumers in the use of tea. They put in too much of the leaf and boil instead of steeping it. The fine qualities of a tea are brought out by the simple process of putting boiling water on just enough tea for one cup. In all tea-sets there is a hot-water urn, after the English method. A pinch of the leaf which weighs about one and half scru-. pies, or what a silver 5-cent piece weighs, is sufficient for one cup. On this boiling hot water should be poured anfi little covets put over the cups for a few moments to allow for steeping. This saves the pungent flavor which the water absorbs. A little sugar and a trifle of milk being added the beauty of the tea is soon perceived. Europeans drink tea in this fashion. The Chinaman never puts milk and sugar in his tea. The Russian follows this latter fashion, but adds lemon. There is more tea used in America than in any other country in the world, and for this reason the consunfer should be all the more careful in purchasing the herb. There is no drink tliat is finer than “the cup that cheers but does no inebriate* when the material used is honest.— lnter Ocean. Young women clerks in New York shoe-shops are complained of by fastidious mothers for kissing the children whom they fit witfi shoes.