Tea Making Tips (1941)

Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of 'off'. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There's an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself.

Slightly grotesque methods for producing tea en masse are demonstrated - it was wartime, after all - and tea had to be produced by the oceanful. As such, there are some top tips for cleaning that hard-to-reach tap in your tea urn. Remember: "a dirty tap means dirty tea". (Robin Baker)

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[andrewshere]

I say, it's a crying shame one hasn't been able to purchase "Empire Tea" since we gave all those bally countries back to the natives. And I always wear a white coat when I make a cup. It tastes frightfully good that way, what?

Keep calm and carry on.

[slmnkh]

this is perhaps the most important piece of information a man may ever encounter

[Southland27]

H&S wan't much better when I was at school in the UK during the 1970s. In chemistry lessons we played with some fairly dangerous chemicals and had no gloves or eye protection. You were told not to get acid on your clothes or skin...So you avoided doing just that. But sometimes the odd splash caught you on the hand, and it was up to you to wash your hand in cold water...The teachers just let you get on with it. Then there was lithium..The fun we had with that and some water...Those were the days.

[Cosmoline]

It's a scientific fact--OVERBOILED water turns HEAVY. And the next thing you know, Kirk Douglas will be blowing up your kitchen.

[GrammarNazi46]

Good vocabulary is not only reserved for the upper echelons of society, you know.

[izaneerz]

Fallacy? Really! We're with the upper classes now.

[Ana Elisa Fuentes]

This is hilarious

[WaveOne11]

get your tea from iHerb(dot)com! Use code BIM072 to get $10 OFF from your first order :)

[Zephyr López Cervilla]

What about "thet's"?

[dogfacade]

Hmmm. Pouring boiling water from a heavy kettle into a narrow, fragile glass container that you're holding rather awkwardly at the bottom with your bare hands.

Either this guy didn't spend much time in a lab, or health and safety standards were very different back then. :P

[History Online]

I love this. The fact that Britain still had tea in 1941, despite the German u-boats, shows how important it was considered for morale.

[History Online]

I'll be setting a test later, so I hope you are all paying attention!