At 8:16 PM -0700 4/1/14, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
Sat-too-long-and-is-still-hot is, if I recall, known as "stewed"
and anyone responsible faces possible deportation from the UK. A
very serious matter indeed, almost as serious as refusing to obey
the rules of a queue.
Sitting and steeping are orthogonal, provided the tea preparation
apparatus has a method to arrest steepage (e.g., a Chatsford tea pot
with large-basket mesh infuser that one simply lifts out after the
appropriate interval). However, my understanding was that the
customary way to prepare British-style tea is to leave the leaves in
all day, providing a strongly tannic tea which is better suited to
copious milk and sugar.
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Randall Gellens
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