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I'm a little teapot, hear me shout
here's my handle, here's my spout.
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dadi and idahoswede, here's my addition to the wonderful tea-meme.
I live in a country of mostly-coffee-drinkers, it seems. At least, I get the feeling when I check the local china shops and find mostly coffee pots and only the occasional teapot, which is then more often than not white with blue flowers. There's one shop here which specializes in high-quality high-priced things for the discerning customer - I mean, houseware, kitchenware, things used to decorate your house with, expensive toys, and the sort of knick-knacks you buy when you either collect them or have more money than you know what to do with or both. A sort of German nano-Harrods. Now there were teapots I could imagine buying! Such as a very nice Meissen set or two, and the Wedgewood they had wasn't bad either. One day, when I am rich and maybe famous, I shall go there and shop.
Luckily, there is eBay, and also shops here which specialize in tea and tea-making utensils, and I found nice things. Though I will hold off on buying them for the moment.
Meanwhile, I have appropriated my mum's old two-cup teapot, which was a present from me years ago when she complained that her colleagues at work were only ever drinking very strong coffee. She took it to work and was happy, so it was a good present. Since she's not working any more, the pot has been relaxing in a cupboard, but no longer!
First of all, here's my hoard of tea. I was not surprised to find that 95% of the tea was fruit or herbal tea, which I drink a lot, and the only three packs truly to be called tea were a Chinese Jasmine tea, a slightly elderly Earl Grey and a little packet of Ceylon. I guess that before I find myself a teapot, I should find myself some good real tea to really appreciate it.
My usual way of preparing tea: Take mug, sling in teabag, pour water, let steep.
It is interesting to note how something that was initially thought of to act as a sample packet has become such a widely used method of tea-making. I don't think there's any other product that has the same history. Except maybe for the little complimentary soap packets in hotel rooms, because hey, haven't we all taken them home?
One of the two mugs I use for loose herbal and fruit teas. It comes with it's own filter and lid, and holds about 300ml.
This is my mum's teapot, about to be used by me, together with a china cup which belongs to a tea set (pot, cups and saucers, milk, sugar, and a thing my dictionary hasn't got a translation for, it's the thing you put a little candle into and put the teapot onto to keep it warm; I'm sure you know what I mean, but I honestly don't know the word for it. I'm not using the tea set because the pot is too big for one person (and I don't much fancy the decor).
I don't take sugar, honey or milk in my tea, so I don't need these implements. At least here, I'm a purist. ;-)
here's my handle, here's my spout.
It is a meme if we all do it, isn't it? Inspired by
dadi and idahoswede, here's my addition to the wonderful tea-meme.I live in a country of mostly-coffee-drinkers, it seems. At least, I get the feeling when I check the local china shops and find mostly coffee pots and only the occasional teapot, which is then more often than not white with blue flowers. There's one shop here which specializes in high-quality high-priced things for the discerning customer - I mean, houseware, kitchenware, things used to decorate your house with, expensive toys, and the sort of knick-knacks you buy when you either collect them or have more money than you know what to do with or both. A sort of German nano-Harrods. Now there were teapots I could imagine buying! Such as a very nice Meissen set or two, and the Wedgewood they had wasn't bad either. One day, when I am rich and maybe famous, I shall go there and shop.
Luckily, there is eBay, and also shops here which specialize in tea and tea-making utensils, and I found nice things. Though I will hold off on buying them for the moment.
Meanwhile, I have appropriated my mum's old two-cup teapot, which was a present from me years ago when she complained that her colleagues at work were only ever drinking very strong coffee. She took it to work and was happy, so it was a good present. Since she's not working any more, the pot has been relaxing in a cupboard, but no longer!
First of all, here's my hoard of tea. I was not surprised to find that 95% of the tea was fruit or herbal tea, which I drink a lot, and the only three packs truly to be called tea were a Chinese Jasmine tea, a slightly elderly Earl Grey and a little packet of Ceylon. I guess that before I find myself a teapot, I should find myself some good real tea to really appreciate it.
My usual way of preparing tea: Take mug, sling in teabag, pour water, let steep.
It is interesting to note how something that was initially thought of to act as a sample packet has become such a widely used method of tea-making. I don't think there's any other product that has the same history. Except maybe for the little complimentary soap packets in hotel rooms, because hey, haven't we all taken them home?
One of the two mugs I use for loose herbal and fruit teas. It comes with it's own filter and lid, and holds about 300ml.
This is my mum's teapot, about to be used by me, together with a china cup which belongs to a tea set (pot, cups and saucers, milk, sugar, and a thing my dictionary hasn't got a translation for, it's the thing you put a little candle into and put the teapot onto to keep it warm; I'm sure you know what I mean, but I honestly don't know the word for it. I'm not using the tea set because the pot is too big for one person (and I don't much fancy the decor).
I don't take sugar, honey or milk in my tea, so I don't need these implements. At least here, I'm a purist. ;-)
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I love love love the green mug with the filter and top! It is just perfect!
Now I'm going to make myself a portion of Hagebutten-Ingwer-Mandarinen tea. Yeah.
And we should keep trace somewhere of the tea-picture-posts!
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The green mug's a present from my maternal grandma; I have only ever seen those in the Czech Republic.
Hagebutten-Ingwer-Mandarine? Where do you get that yummy stuff? :D