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A Nice Cup of Tea
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Contributor | Penguin |
Last Edited | Penguin Jul 06, 2013 03:28pm |
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Category | General |
Author | George Orwell |
News Date | Saturday, January 12, 1946 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points.
This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes.
When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden: |
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