Show U S drinks billions of cups of tea each year but brewing Is s a fine art there are very few house household hoid concoctions concoct ions which are more familiar to the american housewife than tea and a great standing joke is that the female newlywed at least knows how to make a cup of tea but that particular newlywed joke simply does not apply today asserts a writer in the detroit news the fact remains or has just been undeniably established that too few of even the kitchens old timers let alone the lace youngsters have ever permitted either swain husband or guest guest to savor the insides of a rich honest to goodness cup of tea the inhabitants of the united states drink some 19 billion cups of tea each year in norderto order orde rOto to determine how that vast sea of vintage beverage is consumed a cross sec tion survey involving personal interviews ter views with housewives in five representative states has been conducted by a new york firm in essence the survey found that eight out of ten people were tea drinkers but that four out of five tea drinkers were literally throwing the tea away drinking instead a mere shadow of what they started to make or might have had or wanted to drink the proper recipe for a good balanced cup of tea according i to american tea experts is on one e measured teaspoon for each cup with a full five minute brew of the infusion the survey revealed that housewives were either using far too little tea lea or they were brewing it tor for so short a time that not the tea drink er but the sink was being granted the benefits of the essential oils and vitalizing factors in the teacup |