Before Teapots

My grandma would bring water to a boil in a pan on the stove, put in the tea, turn off the heat, let sit till warm, strain into a ice tea pitcher, dilute with tap water, place in frig about 2 hours before serving, placed on table, served with glasses full of ice. Sugar was added to the glasses and not pitcher.

Jim

Eric3 wrote:

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Back when I was but a wee child, we had no pots, cups, or indeed any concave items at all. We had to boil water for tea in our little hands by sticking them in the furnace. Then we'd go outside, pluck leaves and hold them in our hands with the boiling water until it was ready to drink.

Luxury. We didn't even have hands. We had to sniff the steam as it meandered past our faces. But you try and tell young people that, and they don't believe you.

Ian

Sniff the steam? Ooo, weren't you posh. We only had one nose between the eight of us and we had to share it in turns. These children nowadays, each with their own nose, they don't know what hard times are!

Jennifer

"Had one nose"? Your family actually owned one? You were the lucky ones. We rented body parts. Dry, scabby pieces of flesh, abused by countless others before us. A wretched life it was. But what would you know about that, Miss prissy nose owner, you.

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I had no tea when I was little (sob)!