TO MAKE REFRESHING TEA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 3 December 1909, Page 7

TO MAKE REFRESHING TEA.

A FEW DON'TS. Don't infuse tea with water that has been boiling away for hours. All the oxygen has been 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 heat your teapot before putting in the leaves. If the 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 minutes. The delicate flavour and good qualities of the tea-leaf are extracted first, the tannin last, so you should try to dodge the tannin by pouring the liquor off the leaves after five minutes' infusion at most. Don't stand the teapot on the range or near the fire to infuse—the tea might boil, and if it does it will spoil. Don't buy any tea that's offered to you, even if you think you're getting it cheap. Always buy the best you can afford. The best, tea you can get anywhere is "Tiger" Tea, and you can get it in several grades, each the best value obtainable in N.Z. Don't forget that blended tea is the best tea, and the best blended tea is "Tiger" Tea. Don't expect to get real refreshment and healthful satisfaction from drinking tea unless you take a little trouble, first, to get the riglrt tea, and then to make it right. "Tiger" Toa is right when you buy it; the tost depwte on, jjpurwli,