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A Nice Cup of Tea

By: Chris Jensen

As a child tea was tea, nobody claimed any medical properties for the stuff. Although my Wife who is from East Asia tells me they only drink black tea when they are sick. Today in the West we are told that tea has some amazing medical properties. It is said to be good for the heart, cancer, weight loss, arthritis, as an antibiotic and to lower cholesterol. Is this the same stuff I drank with lots of milk and four sugars as a boy?.

Tea has an interesting history in the West, and probably an equally fascinating one in the East which we shall look at in a later article. In England tea appeared around the mid 1600s. It was the marriage of King Charles II to a Portuguese princess that started the tea drinking fashion. She was tea addict and it became a popular drink in the royal court and gradually spread to the rest of the population. It replaced gin and ale as the most popular drink for the masses, which must have had great health benefits in itself.

There is always the big tea debate as to whether you put the milk in last or first. I guess that is always solved by using lemon, but then again is it better to put the lemon at the bottom of the cup and pour the tea over it, or simply drop the lemon into the cup after the tea is poured?. I was given tea by some Indian friends and I noticed they put all the ingredients including the milk and sugar into a pan of cold water and boiled it on the stove before serving. This is not so different to the "billy tea" I had in Australia where a handful of tea was thrown into a pan full of water and brought to the boil over an open fire. This was then served with what looked like a whole can of condensed milk in it.

Then there is the other controversy of tea bags versus loose tea. I did some kitchen research on this myself. I used the exactly the same blend of tea, the only difference was one was in bags. The result well, the loose certainly had more flavour. It may have been that two teaspoons of tea was greater than the contents of two tea bags but it looked roughly the same. As far as taste goes that would be a matter of opinion, if you prefer a stronger, fuller taste the loose tea was the winner.

In conclusion the subject of tea is much more interesting that you might first imagine. Writing this article has certainly made me promise myself to learn more about the story of tea and maybe that will be an excuse for me to write some more on this fascinating herb.

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