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Show U. S. Drinks Billions of Cups of Tea Each Year, but Brewing Is a Fine Art There are very few household concoctions which are more familiar fa-miliar 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 kitchen's old-timers, old-timers, let alone the lace-aproned youngsters, have ever permitted either swain, husband or 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 order to determine deter-mine how that vast sea of vintage beverage is consumed, a cross-section survey involving personal interviews in-terviews with 5.000 housewives in five representative states has recently re-cently been conducted by a New York firm. In essence, the survey found that eight out of ten people were tea-drinkers tea-drinkers but that four out of five tea-drinkers were literally throwing toe 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 bal-anced cup of tea, according to American tea experts, is one measured meas-ured teaspoon for each cup, wi;h a full five-minute brew. The survey revealed that house wives were either using far too little tea, or they were brewing it for so short a time that not the tea-drinker, but the sink, was being granted the benefits of the essential oils and vitalizing factors in the teacup. |