How to make tea
First, fill your kettle with freshly drawn cold water from the faucet (water with lots of oxygen in it is best). Then, when the kettle is nearly boiled, pour a little of the water into a glazed china teapot. Now swirl the water around to warm the pot.
Continue to boil the kettle - meanwhile empty the teapot. Next put a half to one teaspoonful of tea for each person to be served into the teapot, plus one ‘for the pot’; then fill the teapot with the boiling water.
Now leave the tea to brew for about three minutes or so (no more than about 5 minutes, or the tea will be ‘stewed’). Then with a teaspoon agitate the tea but don’t stir the tea in the pot (there is an old English proverb that says ‘If you stir the pot then you stir your troubles’).
After this, using a tea strainer, pour the tea into teacups. Then, if you or your guests take milk in your tea add a little or to taste – however if your tea cups are made of bone china some people advise adding the milk to the teacups before pouring the tea. You may also take sugar in your tea.
Adapted from here
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