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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Earl Grey tea bag, freshly boiled water, just off the boil (via the filter jug), splash of semi skimmed milk in current favourite mug.  Keep the used tea bag in a saucer and after another one has joined it, make a third cup of tea using those tea bags.  Repeat at very regular intervals throughout the day.  Evening - the same, but with rooibos tea.

    With company - tea bags in a pot.  (Generally builders as that's what most of our company likes).

    After a visit to the nice tea and coffee shop - jasmine or darjeeling loose leaves in a pot until cleaning the pot becomes too much of a faff. Leave the bags of loose tea leaves in the cupboard for a couple of years.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Any old bag thrown in a cup with hot water. That's it no, milk no sugar and the plus is I can use the bag a second time or maybe even a third   :D

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited September 2023
    I heat the water in stainless steel kettle
    I use filtered water 
    type tea morning blend from tea shop. 
    i infuse with a tea ball
    milk is added
    biscuits cucumber sandwiches

    fidgetbones i thought brits knew how to make tea at birth. 

    i thought using a tea bag in uk was a criminal offence 
    with £1000  fine and 7 days in jail. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Nope, lots of people use tea bags, the right sorts taste fine as long as the water is properly hot.
    I don't think I ever met anyone who has cucumber sandwiches with their cuppa though! Maybe I'm not posh enough :D.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • I heat the water in stainless steel kettle
    I use filtered water 
    type tea morning blend from tea shop. 
    i infuse with a tea ball
    milk is added
    biscuits cucumber sandwiches

    fidgetbones i thought brits knew how to make tea at birth. 

    i thought using a tea bag in uk was a criminal offence 
    with £1000  fine and 7 days in jail. 

    What on earth are you talking about???
  • To be fair filtered water is the way to go especially with bog standard tea bags.
  • Not only cutting the crusts off @pansyface but I'm sure the sandwiches have to be triangular in shape too ? 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have a feeling the yank is going to tell us how we should be making tea. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    We can then put it in a vacuum flask and take it to our war garden for elevenses.
  • Every time I look at this thread I have to put on the kettle and make a pot of tea.
    I wonder what prompted @war garden 572 to ask about how we Brits make our tea?
    Maybe there's a set of wartime diagrams in uninspiring black and white showing how it was done, correctly of course, that he'd like to show us.
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