YOUR CUP OF TEA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 15

YOUR CUP OF TEA

ITS FLAVOUR. If your tea appears to be losing its flavour and you are Bure your palate is not at fault, try the effect of spreading the tea on a sheet of paper and placing it in a warm oven for ten minutes. This will bring out the full flavour of the leaf. On no account must the tea be placed in a hot oven, otherwise the leaf will become brittle and crumble to dust. Then, if your tea is not fully matured, you will not obtain the full flavour and aroma of the leaf. Tea brewed from the leaf that has been maturing two to three months in the cupboqrd always gives a richer and fuller flavour than when newly bought tea is used at once. This is because new tea contains an essential oil which partially or wholly destroys the full flavour. Tea also loses its flavour when made stale by being exposed too long to the atmosphere. In this case, a fine flavour may be imparted by placing a drop of it tar of roses on a piece of soft paper and lying it in the bottom of the tea-caddy. Dried orange peel or lemon peel used in the same way also imparts a pleasing flavour to tea that has became stale.