Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — Bottled Tea. [ARTICLE]

Bottled Tea.

To bottle tea and set it aside for use as a cold beverage is one way, and perhaps the best, to use and enjoy this wholesome stimulant. It adds a “mellowness” to the fragrant infusion that smacks of old wine. Or Is it the delusion of the “bottle” that suggests the insiduous thought? If you have never tried bottled tea do so on the next picnic that you undertake, and . follow these directions: Make the tea in the usual way, and after it has drawn sufficiently— say twenty minutes strain the liquor from the leaves and pour into a clean hottie. It is best to have the bottle as warm as the tea, so as to avoid the possibility of cracking the bottle with the hot tea; sweeten to taste, bearing in mind that if you make it quite sweet when it is warm it will not appear so when it becomes cold. You will find Appolinaris or champagne bottles the best and cheapest to use. Cork it tightly and set aside in the refrigerator to cool. Then, when you are on your picnic, all you have to do is to fill a tutobler with cracked ice and pour in the tea, and you will realize for the first time what a fine thing this bottled tea is. Do not think that because the tea is in a bottle tightly corked it will keep a long time. After it is once sweetened it should be useil within at least twenty-four hours. If you are a workingman’s wife, and your husband cotoes home after work fired, just have ~a bottle of cold tea ready fat him. He , may get to like it so well that he will

prefer it to the glass of beer he sometimes takes on the way home.