[Sca-cooks] tea..was raised crusts

[Hrolf Douglasson]

Good Tea is made with boiling water in a warm pot
good coffee is made with just off boiling water.
which is why you rarely get good coffee in the UK as it is hard to persuade
people NOT to use boiling water.
And why my Grandmother (from Ariz) can NEVER make a good cup of tea.
The look on her face when we teach the children to boil the kettle for tea.
regards
vara
----- Original Message -----
From: "A F Murphy" <afmmurphy at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] raised crusts


> Well... I have accepted that, if I order tea in a restaurant, I will get
> a cup of sort of hot water with a tea bag nestled coyly beside it. The
> only way you can make real actual tea, as opposed to colored water, is
> to pour boiling water over the tea... So, I simply refuse to drink tea
> in restaurants. (Except the Indian place in my neighborhood. They make
> good tea.) 185 isn't hot enough, but I don't think 195 is that great an
> improvement.
>
> I also can no longer drink regular coffee at night, and find that decaf
> is usually stale, even in good places. So, I now finish my main course
> and go... I usually eat late enough that no one is waiting for my table,
> but  not so late that they are waiting to close.
>
> I don't usually complain, because no one seems to know what I am talking
> about, when I do.
>
> Anne
>
> Edouard de Bruyerecourt wrote:
>
> >  Apparently because 185F isn't hot enough like it has been for
> >years, and this way we will stop the complaints we haven't been getting
> >either.
> >
>
>
>
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