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Show HOW TO POUR TEA. B THERE IS MORE to be learned about pouring tea and coffee then most ladies are willing to believe. If these decoctions are made at the table, which is by far the best way, they require experience, judgement and exactness; if they are brought on the table ready made, it still requires judgement so to apportion them that they shall prove sufficient in quantity for the family party, and the elder members have the stronger cups. Often persons pour out tea, who, not being at all aware that the first is the weakest, and that the tea grows stronger as you proceed, bestow the poorest cup upon the greatest stranger and give the strongest to the very youngest member of the family, who would have been better without any. Where several cups of equal strength are wanted, you should pour a little into each, and then go back, inverting the order as you fill them up, and then the strength will be apportioned properly. This is so well understood in England, that an experience pourer of tea waits till all the cups of the company are returned to her before she fills any a second time, that all may share alike. B House and Home. |