Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — Odors in Tea. [ARTICLE]

Odors in Tea.

Good Housekeeping. - . The extraordinary sensitiveness of tea to odors was shown in New York the other Aahipbrought-at-srgo of tea—-and nothing else—from China, and, upcn testing ths tea, it was found to be sweet. The ship had brought a cargo of sugar Yrom~MahnTa _ on the previous voyage, and though not a bit of it was left in the vessel, yet the odcr was sufficient to impregnate the tea. A case somewhat similar to this occured twelve years ago, when tea was packed in the same hold with camphor. Ir is known that bu’ter will absorb odors equally as well. The odcr of kerosene,for instant, and tobacco and vanilla beans, are fully as sensitive as anything that is known to borrow odors. ,