Tea (To Make Good)
Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891
Instructions
- Be very careful to rinse the teapot with boiling water.
- Allow a teaspoon of tea for each person and one for the teapot.
- Pour boiling water into the pot, and let it stand for five or six minutes.
- Then pour it off into your silver teapot, and keep it hot with a cosy by the fire for late-comers.
- On no account keep tea standing on the leaves for more than ten minutes.
- The Dutch people often improve their tea by collecting the orange-blossoms in the season, and keeping them with their tea in the caddy.