TO MAKE REFRESHING TEA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 30 November 1909, Page 6

TO MAKE REFRESHING TEA.

A FEW DON'TS. Don't infuse tea with water that has been boiling away for hours. All the oxygon has boon boiled out of it. It will be flat and insipid, arid will not make a nice, refreshing cup of tea.

Don't try to infuse tea with water that is not thoroughly boiling. It should be freshly drawn from the tap for each infusion, brought to the boil —furiously boiling,—and immediately poured on the leaves.

Don't neglect to lie-it. vour teapot before putting in the leaves. If tho teapot is cold when the boiling water is poured in, the temperature of the boiling water is reduced accordingly, and a proper infusion is not made.

Don't infuse tea more than fiVe minuLes. The delicate llavour and good qualities of the tea-leaf are extracted first, the tannin last, so you should try to dodge the tannin by pouring tho liquor oil' the leaves after live minutes' infusion at most.

Don't stand tho teapot on the range or near the lire to infuse—the tea 1 might boil, and if it docs it will spoil.

Don't buy any tea that's offered to you, even if you think you'ro gutting it cheap. Always buy the best you can afford. The best tea you can get) anywhere is "Tiger" Tea, and you cangut it in several grades, each the best value obtainable in N.Z.

Don't forget that blended tea is tho best tea, and the best blended tea is ''Tiger" Tea. Don't expect to get real refreshment and healthful satisfaction fromi drinkimr tea unless you take a little trouble, lirst, to get the right tea, and then to make it right. "Tiger" Tea is right when you buy it; tho rest depends on yourself.