TO MAKE REFRESHING TEA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 52, 10 December 1909, Page 3

TO MAKE REFRESHING TEA.

A I'EW DON'TS. Don't infuse tea with water that lias been boiling' away for hours. All the oxygen has been boiled out of it. It will be Hat 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 [loured on the leaves. Don't neglect to heat your teapot before pulling 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 ilavour and good qualities of the tea-leaf arc extracted lirst, the tannin last, so you should try to dodge the tannin by pouring the liquor off the leaves after live minutes' infusion at most.

Don't stand tho teapot on tho 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 ii you think you're getting it cheap. Always buy tho best you can afford. The best tea you can get anywhere is "Tiger" Ten, and you can get it in several grades, each tho 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 drinkinir tea unless you take a little trouble, first, to get _ the tea, and then to make it right. "Tiger' Tea is right when you buy it; the rest depends on yourself.