How to Make a British Cup of Tea
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- By popular demand, I show you how to make a proper cup of tea the BRITISH way! Apologies to all of you in the UK as this will be stating the obvious - but I'd love to hear if you do it differently!
It's just a short 5 minute video tonight!
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I’ve read some of the comments where people are dissatisfied with the length of this video. Makes me sad. Stephanie has been very clear about her Sunday schedule. She has always been consistent, and announces when changes will occur. Things are nuts around the world right now, if she had a normal Sunday video, she would have been raked through the coals for one thin or another. Maybe, if everyone just took the time to have a comforting cup of tea, the day would be brighter. Peace and love. 💃🌻❤️👍🏻🥰
Amen!!
And can we also remember, someone just arrived from A horrible situation, and I’m sure it impacts the whole household. Can you imagine your homeland being ripped apart, and you show up to a party? Let’s all remember she shows us glimpses of her life, and HOME. I apologize for the rant.
@@siamgirl31 No need to apologise. More's the pity, it needed to be said.
Exactly, she clearly stated in Venice that the Sunday videos were only coming back for a short time, they were NOT going to be a regular thing, so I invite those complaining to be happy that you were able to view ANY new content on on Sunday. SMH!!!
Well said!! 😊👍🏻
I'll change this to Well said, agreeing with all the above comments.
Stephanie's vlogs are a pleasant vignette in my life every few days watched in between what I am doing, goodness, I don't need constantly entertained, we all certainly have a life and so does she. 😄
I am British and this is true but I recommend putting sugar in at the start with the tea bag because the sugar will disolve propely.
As a British I can confirm that this is how British makes tea, great tutorial!
Yeah, I was like oh, you don’t boil the water to boil. The water brings out the tea. It says to boil the water maybe not a hard boil, but I just get it once it starts boiling I poured over the teabag and no one ever taught me the British way I just knew that I preferred to have the teabag in there and then pour the hot water over it.
Is it whole milk?
You put milk in tea 🤮
@@MakerInMotion Ever had Boba?
@@Noname-u2b No. Tea should be tea leaves and hot water. No milk. No sugar. No balls of tapioca.
Seriously?
Feels a bit wierd being shown how to make a british cup of tea by someone who hasn't lived in England for over 15 years. The proper way is in a tea pot! What you've done there is a Builders brew! At least show people the correct way and then the cheats way 😒😭
Your vlogs used to be so good. What happened to the renovation?
She said that she would show how to make tea using loose-leaf tea another time. Do you really think that someone who lived in Britain until her 20's and drinks tea regularly doesn't remember how to make a cup of tea? Obviously, many Brits use teabags, or Yorkshire wouldn't make them. So judgemental. If you don't like the vlogs, stop watching them. There are plenty of other chateau renovation channels on TH-cam, like Chateau Life, Bordeaux Life, How to Renovate a Chateau, Doing it Ourselves, and The Pethericks. Please note, you used "then" when you should have used "than".
The video starts at 3:30. You are welcome to
Sorry to say this Stephanie, but not you to! A five minute Vlog? I guess you don’t have much time for us anymore? Too much thumbs up for very little and less quality content to all the five minute or three minutes Vogs. I’m very disappointed. I was looking forward to this Sunday Vlog. Too much on one’s plate and the stress of it makes a persons lose heart in what they do.
I am not doing regular Sunday vlogs at the moment, but wanted to make this one as I’ve been asked for it 😊 My main video is on Thursdays. I will increase the amount of videos per week again later in the year.
Next week tying shoe laces 😂
Steady on, I don’t want to run before I can walk!
I’ve been making my tea the British way my whole life and I had no idea 🤷🏼♀️🫖☕️🥛
Thank you this was a fun video! 😃 Can’t wait to see the next proper tea video! 👌
Thank you Stephanie! As a mostly-coffee-drinking, but-sometimes-tea-drinking American, I enjoy a good cup of tea but have always wondered if I was getting the most out of it. I so appreciate this video and looking forward to your afternoon tea vlog! ❤
I live in TN but raised in Western New York, South of Buffalo. We also made our tea that way as you Brits do. Boiling water over the tea bag. We also preheated the teapot if more than a cup was wanted.
We don't add milk in tea in Mississippi.
Where is TN?
Tennessee in US
I grew up in New England with a lot of tea drinkers (I am both coffee and tea drinker equally) and we always made tea this same way. I hate when ordering tea and thry give yiu hot water and a tea bag, awful lol
@@grace7701 and you are lucky if the water is even warm. Went to Olive Garden for lunch and it was not only hot water it was enough for almost another cup of tea. Meal was pretty good also.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this with us. I love Yorkshire tea! Was in Yorkshire for a couple of years ago and after that I used to by this massive amount of teabags so I never run out of tea ☕️ Just before Brexit I bought 1100 teabags!
Also the bubbling boiling water introduces oxygen into the brew which tea needs. Though, unless in the office at work, I make my one cup tea in a one cup teapot. If you have the extra couple of minutes, let the tea brew rather than squish the bag, which can make it bitter. As Stephanie says, you’re going to have to wait for the tea to cool anyway. A cardinal “sin”, in my view, is to try to put milk in with the water and the tea bag. Nooooooooo! It won’t brew properly. I must be suggestible as I really fancy a cuppa. Off to put the kettle on.
Sorry Stephanie am Marmite . And Yorkshire Gold loose tea in my China mug . No milk or sugar 🥰
Agreed. No milk with the tea bag. Never comes out quite right.
My Welsh grandfather loved his Earl Grey with milk. His wife, my Polish grandmother, adopted tea drinking because of him. She drank pipping hot tea. She boiled the water for 5 minutes to ensure it was hot enough... I kid you not. The time it took to pour the boiling water into her tea cup - these few seconds - made the tea cold. Never seen anything like it. If there was a way to prevent her lips from being burned when sipping from the rim of the pot, she would have happily engaged. R.I.P. grandma and grandpa Davey. You brought up some great memories Stephanie. Thank you so very much.
I’m fascinated! My family roots go back to England and I’m American. I’ve been making my tea the British way without knowledge of how it’s done! Guess it’s in the blood! 😆
Same! Must be instinct. But it’s nice to KNOW I’ve been doing it correctly😁 I feel like my electric kettle helps too.
Same here...
Love this little video so much. They don’t always have to be 30 minutes long. I love the short ones too. Look at Dan’s 5 minute videos so full of content. 😄You could do Tuesday videos again with shorts or 5 minute videos. I’m TN born and raised (southern) and this is how I make hot tea also minus the milk. I’m a coffee girl myself but occasionally drink hot tea. Yes in the south we differentiate between hot and cold tea. Ice cold sweet tea is a southern staple for most. The argument here is 1 cup of sugar vs 2 cups of sugar per gallon 🤣🤣for me one cup per gallon is perfect. ( I don’t drink it anymore. No one needs to be drinking that much sugar🤭). Black coffee and water are my drinks of choice……and wine……and beer😃😃
We do 1/2 cup of sugar to 3 family sized tea bags, but the rest of my family and friends all use a full cup. I agree that 2 cups is just too much.
@@hahna77 yes I imagine the 1/2 cup of sugar tastes really good.
@@deesa3500 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
NO! sacrilege! you squished the tea bag- no! it makes the tea bitter! (a 1000+ cup of tea drinker a year here);)
It definitely does make it bitter, agreed. But I’m a very impatient woman 😂
I think tea influenced on British pronunciation, made it arrogant
Whats happening Steph...you used to have lots of videos of what was going on in the chateau but they seem to have dried up!!...you on the wind down to retirement??...lol...Looking forward to the work starting again....keep up the good work....Arthur and Angela , WA Oz..
Who knew. I must be English, I have been doing my tea exactly as you described for the correct English method. Thank you for sharing.
This video was tea-rrific, Stephanie! 🤩💞😅
I’m an American and this is exactly how I make my tea. I guess you could say it’s in my blood or something.
Working in the bush, in Australia, you boil the water in the billy,( a pot over the campfire) chuck in however much loose tea you want and you have it. Best stirred with a peeled gum stick with a leaf off a eucalyptus tree ( also called a gum tree). Then you pour into a battered tin mug and attempt to hold said mug. Sitting on either a log or near by rock. If you have a folding chair or /and a tea bag you're a ring- in- just visiting for the day . My personal love is Russian Caravan tea from Twinning. Smoky and delicious but that's here in my office watching you.
I love this 😊
I'm making it this way from now on 😄
I think it’s great that Stephanie dispelled the myth that the Brit’s are tea connoisseurs. We are not! We are just addicted to caffeine, willing to make tea as strong as we can from the dregs of the tea factory floor (tea bags) and then we are willing to cut it with as much milk / and or sugar to disguise the taste. Really we (most of us) are just caffeine junkies! 😂
And in the US, our caffeine addiction is satisfied with either coffee or soda (carbonated sweet beverages).
😁
As an American I make it the ‘British way’ but sometimes it’s just not strong enough, so if at home I tend to leave the bag in …So is it “wrong” to leave the tea bag in the cup?
If you squeeze the bag you can release additional bitter tannins into the drink which can make it unpleasant-- leaving the bag to steep on its own is preferable as you say. But if you do want to speed up the process somewhat, consider jostling the bag around in the water without putting pressure on it in order to release more tea flavour instead.
Hi, I live in Canada & we make tea like this as well. I, however, like tea leaves, which I put in a strainer that sits in my cup & then pour boiling water over. I also drink herbal tea, which I prepare the same way. I recently bought a kettle with different temperatures because some teas require a lower temperature & some require less steeping time. Apparently, white tea & green tea become bitter if left too long to steep. I have become quite a tea snob. We have Canadian tea companies that have excellent loose tea. I don't put milk in my tea, just a little sweetener like Stevia. However, when I am in a restaurant we will be served a tea bag & water separately. I always ask for the bag to go into the pot & put the boiling water over the tea.
Love the video Stephanie. I’m more of a coffee drinker because I’ve always thought tea was just too weak and tasted like flavored water especially when adding milk. Now I know why. I will be making it this way going forward. 🥰
Me too, I thought I needed coffee, but strong Yorkshire tea will wake me up. And a little cream " london fog"
Milk and sugar with tea... gross. Tea and coffee...both water only. No cream, no sugar.
I'm Canadian and love my black tea! One of the things I love about visiting the UK is that you can always be assured of a good cuppa, just about anywhere. ☺️
Make that black tea with milk, of course
i love your tea cup earrings! if you were wondering if anyone noticed I did!!!
Well spotted!
Oh I hadn't noticed! I'm going back to have a look 👍
Great video! In restaurants here in US all was sadly as you reported, but instead of milk they provide a plastic serving of cream. Horrors! It smothers the little bit of tea flavor. I grew up drinking tea properly made. Tea was with meals, also for good news, bad news, comfort, celebration. The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but you can count on a good cup of tea.
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch: "Red Alert, put the kettle on!"
@@lenoracooper7729 Good motto!
"Ah, half a cup of tea, thank you", hahahaha. Who would do that? I do like it 3/4 full so then I can add the oat milk and pretty much drink it straight away.
I do not let the water get to 100 C, it is mostly 80. Is that ok? Am I in trouble? But I am not British so I guess it is all right. I still enjoy it a lot. I guess the temperature depends on the type of tea.
My Scouser father who moved to Canada when he was 30 was very particular about his tea, which we as the kids prepared and served at supper time. It was always purchased in bulk, no strings or tags or superfluous packaging. He used the same tea pot my whole life, a little white corningware number with blue flowers that was stove-top safe. Mugs (his and mom’s) would be prepared with a little milk, giving it time to come to room temperature while the water boiled so as not to spoil the tea with cold milk. Two tea bags would be placed in the tea pot, boiled water poured over top and the tea pot left to steep on the lowest burner setting. Dinner would be served and the tea was poured before we began to eat. Dad always insisted that mom’s be served first, because it was the weakest and the second pour contained the best brew 🙄. Let’s just say my dad was not too posh for corned beef hash 😉.
The tea pot was never washed (why would it be? the tea was drank, the bags removed & the pot left to dry) but his mug was cleaned after every use. I mention this because in high school I had a boyfriend who nearly broke up with me for washing his tea cup. It was completely stained and looked like it had never seen soap or a scrub brush. He walked in as I was set to pump dishwashing liquid into his cup and that’s when I learned about his seasoned tea cup. He only drank it black. He only rinsed it with boiled water. Preserved the flavor of his sacred tea. 5th generation Canadian and yet his English tea roots are strong.
I also have an ex-MIL who would only drink loose leaf served as you noted, like it’s a full afternoon tea, and only from a porcelain cup with a saucer. She even gifted me a set so as I could serve her properly when she came to visit.
Ahhh, thank you Stephanie. As a non tea drinker I tuned in just to see what’s up and you’ve invoked memories I have not thought about in 30 years. ❤️🇨🇦
I’m laughing out loud at the thought of her gifting you a cup just so that you could serve her properly! 😂 I’m like your family - I don’t mind not cleaning the pot, but the cup can’t be stained!
I love the British way. This is how we grew up making our tea. I use orange pepper, Tetley, and I love it. I will have to try Yorkshire tea sometime.
Great segment! Still love the content. People need to realize that inflation and energy prices are sky high. If we’re watching costs so are you. You also deserve time for you and loved ones. It’s all good 🇨🇦❤️
as a british guy making tea as i watched this i aggree with everything but the only thing i do diffrent is add the sugar and boiling water together then milk last
When making tea before china porcelain was introduced milk was poured first as not to crack the cup. With the introduction of porcelain the tea could be poured before as the cup would not crack & the milk added after.
Just a little bit of info in making tea !!!
I quite literally was just looking in my cupboard to see which tea was calling for me. Looks like I’m about to find out!
I bought the Yorkshire Gold after watching this and I love it! Amazon sells it, at least in the US where I am. Make sure you get the tea bags that don't have strings or tags, they are smaller. Get the bags without strings, they are larger and perfect for one cup. American and Asian tea bags with strings are so small I'll have to use 2 or 3 per cup to get any sort of flavor. I'm so happy you posted this because I love this tea, thank you!
I’m so happy you’re enjoying it!
As an indian I can confirm it tastes very nice and very different from indian tea. Indian tea is over boiled and tastes horrible but somehow most of us are proud of that overboilef version
I didnt know you guys used tea bags. I thought since yall were tea slobs you would use fresh looseleaf tea. 😂i guess im more of a tea snob than british people 😂im obsessed with looseleaf tea and can drink up to 3 cups a day hahaha
In my home, a video of me making tea would have been about 30 seconds. Fill mug with arrowhead water, 10 secs. Pour water from mug into water reservoir of Keurig, 5 secs. Place k cup into Keurig and push lid down, 5 secs. Push button, 5 secs. Cut frame, millisecond. Pick up steaming mug and pour coconut milk creamer into mug, 5 secs. Oh and another 30 secs to show me herding my Pekingese upstairs, trying not to spill the tea as I climb stairs with darting animals at my feet and go log into my computer for my 9 hour a day job.
So how do British make the tea lighter then the cup you made ? The string is for you to dip inside the water the longer you let the bag sit the darker the tea ,
British : On the other hand you cannot remove the bag from the tea once the boiling water is added to the cup 😂
And who makes tea in warm water?
And we don’t add milk to tea
I think British and Nigerian add milk : Milk tea
And that’s a really big Cup
It doesn't matter how you make the tea, they just represent different cultures.
The channel is really helpful for foreigner like me to learn Briitsh English. I'd like to see more British culture.
Im an American who just bought his first Electric tea Kettle!🤣🤣 So Im watching this to know exactly how to brew my tea the correct English way. Thank you so much and much love from the across the pond!
These are the videos I love in between the diaries! 🫖🤍 Thank you Stephanie for clarifying this! Thanks Dan for filming 😍
I'm canadian, that's exactly how we do it here.
Thank you. Sipped the hot nectar while in the Nevada desert. Actually lowers body temperature.
I've always made tea the British way. People can never figure out why it tastes so different, I just smile. Born and raised and still in the USA, I have to thank my Grandmother for that valuable and delicious tip. It IS the only way I ever made tea, thanks Stephanie 😊
It baffles me that people don’t know how to brew tea. I get that lots of people maybe didn’t grow up with it in the house, so their parents never showed them, but often the proper instructions are on the box? People don’t read the instructions, I know! 😂
I love tea time…..My guys (husband and sons) used to pooh pooh teatime, but when I put out the spread of fruit, savories, jams and scones, did they change their minds! 😊💕
Did you preheat the glass?
I don't like milk in my tea, why do British do that? It spoils the flavor. Apart from that, good video.
Funny I've always made it this way. I thought that was pretty normal. Much like coffee, the whole idea is to steep so why adding the bag to to water alone isn't logical. Interesting.
Looks delicious... now I need to make a cup of tea. Just one tiny thing:
DON'T TOUCH THAT BAG! Squishing it about doesn't extract flavour in the same way that a proper brew does.
Leave it alone for as long as you can stand it, 3-5 mins, or until the bag has sunk.
Fish it out, quick gentle squeeze to eliminate risk of drips on the way to the bin, dash of semi-skimmed milk (we don't want that heavy full- cream milk interfering with those layered tannins) and enjoy while still hot (a lid on the cup while brewing helps with that).
For a complete experience, blend Darjeeling, Ceylon, Kenyan and just a touch of Assam in that order, using diminishing quantities / to taste.
Cheers!
I've never had tea before . I'm 22 and I did it completely wrong 😂. I got the hot water and put it in the cup and I OPENED the tea bag and the tea went to the bottom. Making it so black that it tasted awful. 🤦
Note to none sugar takers - add the sugar to your friend's tea BEFORE the milk or the sugar doesn't dissolve. How many more times?! This infuriates me.
Thank you for sharing. What ratio of tea bags to water do you recommend, and what's brand of the tea do you recommend.
A 6 minute video about how to prepare something as simple as tea? I'm out. Talking about stretching content....
I'm a tea drinker but I don't drink tea in US restaurants. Restaurants mostly don't know how to make a cuppa. I once asked a waiter to make sure the water was boiling and they looked indignant. And then there is a group who think boiled water will damage the tea leaves.
The tags and strings are a nuisance to me also. But, what I really hate are the individually wrapped tea bags. Some in foil,(nails on chalkboard) Just stop.
I buy Red Rose and would buy Tetleys but it gives me acid stomach for some reason.
Exactly what mom does, and she's Méxican. She even does the squishing of the bag.
I use a porcelain teapot every day, warm it with boiling water that I then dump out, add the loose leaf tea, and pour over the still boiling water from my kettle on the stove. I add milk, but no sugar. I read up on how to properly make English tea as a young adult and in my middle years have taken it up again as a replacement for coffee which is rough on my stomach. I own too many teapots. I do drink my tea from a mug most days as pretty teacups have to be refilled so quickly! 😂
Well Stephanie, i am happy to tell you that this method has made it's way to us french Canadians! My mom drank her tea exactly the way you made it! Actually lots of english traditions have made their way to us like the little triangular sandwiches wich are still very popular here! We dont serve them for tea but we have them whenever there is a big family gathering.
Renee-Claude Morin- I'm of French ancestry and my Gram-mere loved her tea. I remember the first time I made her a cup of tea in a cup. I didn't understand the importance of allowing it to steep. Or bruising the bag by swishing it with a teaspoon to speed up the process. So I made a rather weak cup of tea, when I proudly presented it to her with love and pride she remarked with disdain. " What is this? Dishwater? Take it away and make it properly. lol.
Tea is an english thing, not french, i think they are more coffee people like Americans! In Quebec, we are a melting pot of diffrent cultures so it's hard to find where our customs come from! Now i know where my mother picked up the habit of making her tea like this, we live in the eastern townships (cantons de l'est) where there is a lot of english folks and lots of scottish heritage too, i live near to a small village called 'Scottstown'!
@@mnizourin I own a guesthouse in the south of France and my French guests love tea. I offer them a choice of strong Yorkshire tea, Earl Grey, Green and mint teas and a few others and often they will choose Green tea, mint tea or Earl Grey. They usually prefer the weaker teas without milk, unlike the British who tend to prefer it strong with milk. Most coffee drinkers seem to prefer it stronger, again without milk for the French. My younger French guests often ask for hot chocolate and then proceed to dunk their pastries in it.
Hear! Hear! That’s the same way we make tea in Ireland. Water has to be fully boiling and then you want minimal delay before it’s poured on the bag. The only difference is that our breakfast blends tend to be a bit stronger and more tannic than yours thanks to a higher percentage of Assam.
This is the same thing except you all use the tea kettle to pour over the tea bag. In the US we just use boiling water and add the tea bags to the water and smash the tea bags to the sides to get the tea taste. It's the same thing, just the opposite. Neither is wrong.
... Don't ever show this to a japanese. This is straight up buchering the tea.
But i can see the appeal tho
Ah this was a emergency fill in video That means there is a lot going on. More fodder for us. Btw the stats were wrong. Knock two off the list both my husband and i are allergic. Makes us feel sick. I can drink it as medication for a shock. Weirdly i craved it when i was pregnant with my only daughter (that should have been a hint after 3 boys and no tea craving lol). Looking forward to the next one. Now for the other channels i follow.
I tried, it is good and uhm weird at the same time, I mean We're drinking without milk and without cup just a glass, that was a different experience for me but tbh that was like a coffee, I dont know. :D
In between Stephanie’s delightful videos there is another vlog called Journey to the Chateau, starring two fun guys who have just found their Chateau and are just starting their journey. I’ve been supplementing my days when Stephanie doesn’t upload with these guys and they are quite enjoyable. I hope Stephanie, Patrick and Stuart know how much pleasure they bring to us during these stressful times. And the Pethericks too, of course. And Carol and Adrian of Chateau de la Ferte!
1) get box of PG Tips available in most US grocery stores; 2) extract the heck out of it until you could use it to clean metal; 3) pour in mug or cup;
4) add enough milk that most of tea flavor is gone
I love this! I need to switch up my usual black cup of coffee in the morning. I have decided to try your method but with decaf Yorkshire tea bags. Have you tried them? I hear the flavour is nice but needs more steeping time because it’s a bit less intense.
Thank you!
Oh and what is that teacup? It looks just like Martha Washington’s that my late mother bought for me at Mount Vernon. I broke it and would love to find a replacement.
This was perfect. I just gotta get my milk pour right and I will be set. Currently I always end up with too much milk or not enough milk. I’ve noticed that our British friends pour it fast in one shot and it’s always the right amount. I have no idea how they do it.
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I wish we had a big bag of teabags like we have little boxes of it, but you have a big bag, and you have to cut the bag and grab it, then split it in two in case you have two people who wants tea
I have never had tea or coffee my entire life so far, and I am 59. Maybe someday when I visit Lalande, I will sit and have my first official tea...
Wow
This is so funny. It makes me think back with fond memories to my mother complaining to me when I made tea in the microwave and a ceramic mug. To her, it must be made with water boiled on the stove and drunk from a porcelain cup. I miss her.
Went in here to learn something new.. I'm dissapointed cus I guess we did it right all along here in Sweden.
It's nice to know that I, an American, is preparing tea mostly the British way. 😅
My Dad used to say the "I see the tide's out" when presented with a less than full cup.🐨🇦🇺
All this to make a simple cup of tea? The video could’ve been a couple of minutes shorter.
I remember seeing a documentary about the British in India/ China that the military added milk and sugar to tea to give the soldiers more energy!
But I think it’s a nice pause of the day to take tea ! Adding whatever your culture calls for!
that's exactly how I make mine except I use the cardboard and string teabags 😆
It turns out that I am almost British in the way I prepare tea. Except for milk. Next time I will try to add it. What about the tea bag, does it stay in the cup until you drink it all, or do you take it out before or after adding the milk?
*would*
Yes... I am in France at the moment and I asked for cold milk for my tea, what I got was hot milk into my hot water ready for me to dunk my tea bag in...... I left it on the table. Thanks Steph.
WoW! I didn't know, I'm apparently secretly British. That's the way I do except you kept saying brewed & I say steeped. Dad's family is from Germany further back than his parents. My mom's parents & oldest brother & sister came from Russia just before WW1. But idk how any of them made their tea.
Oh yay the proper cup of tea WITH Yorkshire tea. Watched "It's a Wonderful Life" (which I love) and Anna showed how to make a proper cup of tea yesterday. I need to rush out to the store and get a box of Yorkshire tea which I just noticed and wondered if that was a real British tea. Well now that I know it is, got to try it. AND make it the way Anna and you have made it. Thanks for the tea tutorial. Love your vlogs, whether they are long or short, you and your friends are a lovely escape from the turmoil of this world!!!
I thought exactly the same about the Yorkshire tea, wonder if Stephanie watches Anna and Peter? 🤔😊
Maybe you could replace milk by Job’s tears’ powder ... Highly good for the kidney energy that decreases with time. I am having one just now ;) No sugar, but miel de France.
Stephanie, I hope that you are able to read this comment. While this may not be the right video, I don’t know how else to reach you. Unfortunately ( sarcasm) you are beautiful, well educated and charming. Those are qualities that make some women rage with envy. Franz Josef Karl is one of those ugly women. Look out for her because she is out to destroy you and the world that you have worked so hard to obtain. She is quite vicious, not just critical and seems to be on a mission . Just watch out for her.
Very close to how I was taught by my mother. I guess it would be tempering, but we would pour the milk over our hot teaspoon into the tea.
The Chateau Diaries is a perfect model for the indisputable saying that "Nothing succeeds like success." You've followed your dreams, Stephanie, worked incredibly hard and consistently made smart decisions. Keep up the good work, piece by piece, room by room, bringing the Chateau de Lalande back to its long-lost regal opulence in the spirit of grand chateaux such as Chenonceau, Champ de Bataille, Valencay, Villandry, Vaux-le-Vicomte and a host of other distinguished French chateaux and English castles that dazzle us still. How lucky we are to have them, and occasionally to even enjoy sipping a proper cup of tea on one of the chateau's terraces while overlooking the most impeccably designed and impressively tailored garden landscapes. If we're not able to join you, Philip and all the wonderful Lalanders for that spot of tea, I'm more than happy to be invited along to enjoy another Chateau Diaries video. They are always such a joy. Thank you for all you do.
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Marmite. Hate it! I will admit that the first and only time I tasted it, I didn't realize how very, very thinly It should be spread. Since then, I have been extremely averse to trying it again. I admit it was a wonderful, nutritious invention during a time of need during WWII. I'm sure that growing up with it, most develop a taste for it. Fortunately or unfortunately, we in the US did not have Marmite during WWII.
Thank you very much! What is sacred for the Brit is criminal for the Chinese... But maybe overtime, health benefits of the English tea were discovered?
Our family loves PG Tips. We let the bag five (!) minutes in the boiled water.
I do it almost the same way. As I can’t wait for my first cup of tea in the morning, I put the water on to boil, put the sugar in the cup with the tea bag, when the water boils, I put my hand over the kettle to make sure it’s really boiling. I have to feel hot steam before I pour the water in. Because I like strong tea I set a timer for a little over 4 minutes. Then I clean up anything on the counter so I don’t push drinking it too soon.
Im from Sweden so more people drink coffee and we don't have as much of a tea tradition, but a lot of tea drinkers here do it completely wrong in my opinion, they have that full cup of water then they just dunk the teabag a few times and toss it away, basically just drinking hot water, milk and sugar is not so commonly served unless you ask for it.
I 100% agree that water should be poured over the teabag it gets a better taste, and black tea definitely needs boiling water. However I prefer loose tea, my method when drinking at home is to use a normal saucepan, heat the water to whatever degree that is best for the type of tea, then I add tea just loosely and let it sit for a little bit then i stir it a bit and then just strain the tea when filling the cup. I just moved all my teas from just a box in the kitchen to a bookshelf in a hallway and its a lot more convenient seeing what I have.
I was raised that the British way is the only way to make tea...I find tea service in France an abomination and utter blasphemy. Then there is American iced team.....
You have gotta heat the mug first to keep the tea at max temperature.
In France it's not boiling water but hot water. I even know people who make tea from hot tap water, disgusting ! When someone pours boiling water on tea in front of me I KNOW by the sound that it's not boiling, is that weird! I'm told that tea made from fresh leaves in boiling water is also great but for me it has to be plain black strong tea where the spoon can almost stand up in the cup. My mum uses really strong tea bags ( Scotland) and she just adds more hot water and another tea bag and when I was home she had THREE tea bags of really strong tea in her cup ! In France people say " oh I can't have tea so late I won't sleep' but in the UK you have breakfast tea, eleven o'clock tea, in Scotland we have tea with our meals, then afternoon tea, tea with dinner, then an after dinner cuppa, then an evening cuppa then maybe one more before bed. My mother gets up twice in the night to have tea ! One word WHOLESALE ! Probably the word 'addiction' is being imagined by some?
I live in the US but my grandmother was British, She had a teakettle of brewed tea on the back of her stove at all times. It was black and thick and I don't think that was the proper way to brew tea. It gets very tannic tasting when the tea is in the water all day. I like to put my teabag into the cup and add the boiling water also, but I do not take any milk because I am lactose intolerant, nor do I want sugar. I am happy with just a cup of darkly brewed proper tea, thank you.
Thank you for the tea tutorial! Here in 🇨🇦 I get tired of ordering a cuppa only to be served gnats piddle.☺️😂
Ah, or as Phillip would say, a "Teatorial." 😂
Haha 'gnats pee' is what we always call it too!!😃
Wait I'm Guyanese born so I was doing it correctly😅.