Tea – One Scoop or Two?
The basic rules that most people follow today includes using freshly drawn and boiled water and allowing one scoopful of loose tea or a one tea bag per person.
Brewing time is, it is agreed , all-important and depends on the type of tea you are brewing, Darjeeling requires from 3 to 5 minutes, Kenya form 2 to 4 minute and China Oolong 5 to 7 minute. At what point you add milk, however, has been a contentious subject for decades, Victorian etiquette was definite on the matter; the milk or cream had to be put in last, so that its addition could be rejected or limited. The British novelist and essayist, George Orwell, who also published his own eleven golden rules for a “nice cup of tea’ in 1945, had equally firm views. Last was best, he wrote, for “by putting the tea in first and then stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk.” The last word goes t Nancy Mitford, the English aristocrat novelist and biographer, who claimed that “milk in first,” know as the “MIF” debate, was without doubt, not the “thing” to do.
Excerpt form Where to Take Tea: Susan Cohen
From T 2 Tea…
There are four key types of this beverage which are white tea, green tea, oolong tea, and black tea. One study out of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggests that drinking green tea can help abate esophageal cancer, while another from Pace University reveal that drinking black tea can help destroy oral viruses such as herpes, as well as prevent diarrhea, pneumonia, cystitis, and skin infections.
Many folks drink tea simply because it taste great, and not just for benefits. There are two main methods of brewing tea, loose leaf style, and by tea bag. But only one method will give you the ultimate tea flavor and benefits!
Most people brew their tea form a tea bag and remain unaware of the true way tea is meant to be enjoyed. Even drinking white and green teas that are in iced tea form in bottles sold in stores does not provide the same taste and benefits. The reason is because tea bags consist of fanning (or tea dust) which happens to be the lowest grading of tea. Loose leaf tea is the way to go; it offers more varieties and drinking pleasure over any tea bag! So brew it, sip it and enjoy it!