The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-20
WHAT REAL TEA Is LIKE
THIS MAN SAYS FEW PEOPLE KNOW
THE TASTE or GOOD TEA.

INC Ac4 We - oC-
xond the Reach of Ordinary MortaIs.
When l left the United States l thought
I was fair Judge of tea had imbibed
both it and the knowledge Of it in large
quantities from George c. Boldt. John
Chamberlain and Delmonico Now, after
having visited Ceylon, Formosa and the
Annoy district, found that knew moth.
ing, and the three worthy gentlemen
named knew even less.
We Americans don't know the first prin
ciples of making tea. The delicate Leaf
should never touch metal. 1t should be
kept in paper, wood, glass or porcelain.
To make it, put small quantity in q
porcelain cup, fill the latter with boiling
water, cover it with a porcelain saucer and
let it stand three minutes. Then If You
desire TO be an epicure, drink only the
upper layer of the golden liquid, throw the
rest away, rinse the cup and begin draw
ing de nova
Don't use sugar any more than you
would sweeten chambertin or pour mo-
lasses into extra dry.
Don't use milk IL ruins the flavor OF
the tea and Injuries the stomach. The
cloudiness produced by adding milk to tea
arises from the action of the tannin upon
the casein, aud is, chemically speaking,
pure leather.
Above all things, don't boil tea. The
heat drives off the perfume, spoils the
flavor and extracts the tannin, the astrIn-
gent principle. II the boiling be done in a
tin or iron pot, the tannin attacks the
metal and makes the liquid black. This
fluid is simply Diluted ink. Never let the
tea stand except in tightly closed porce
lain pot.
Standing changes il from a delicious,
wholesome beverage into an i'll tasting and
bitter liquor. Rather make it in small
quantities and make it often. Methinks
hear many good housewives say, 1T needs
no ghost TO tell us this" and yet there art
thousands who do need advice on this sim
pie subject.
ABOUT GREEN TEA.
In summer when You want to cool oil
quickly. sip the tea boiling hot with slice
of previously peeled lemon, or nicer STILL
of orange. without the rind floating in IT,
In winter, especially when you have cold
and require sudorific. add wineglassful
of arrack TO it and drink it. down as hot as
you can stand it. 1t will bring out pro
fuse and healthful perspiration.
Beware of green teal 1t is an abomina
ton and n fraud. A Chinese coolis
wouldn't give it to his pig. He will give
that patient porker dead rats, old boots
and other Offal and such unconsidered
trifles. but he draws the line at green tea.
In the first place it is simply the unripe
leaf and bears the same relation TO the real
article that the little peach Ct Emerald
hue does to Delaware's delicious fruit in
Its richest ripeness.
1t has the same effect upon the stomach
and abdominal nerves as in the case Of poor
Johnny Jones and his sister Sue" The
green tea OF commerce derives its rare color
from being cured, or rather killed, on dirty
copper pans, from being mixed with weeds
and shrubs, from being stained with indigo
and chrome yellow, from being colored
with verdigris, grass juice or chlorophyl.
Every green dye known 10 commerce mas
been used TO produce the much admired
but death dealing color, excepting it may
be Paris green. As soon rs the use Of that
poisonous substance will give profit OF q
cent pound, you can wager 1t will be lib
orally used by the mercenary Mongolian
merchant and the much more nercenary
cultured European tea trader.
la fAESlS Or CHINA
The tea plant is "a sensitive and delicate
as a Fifth avenue belle. IL fOurishes best
on a mountain side, where 10 is neither
very warm nor cool. where the soil i dry,
but the rains and dews are frequent, where
the force of the wind IS broken by ada
cent woods or hills, where there - a maxi.
mum Of sunlight, and. according 70 the
CeIestials, Of moonlight, and where the
surrounding ground IS kept free from
weeds or other vegetable growths.
There are farms in Formosa, Fo-kien
and other tea districts where these condi-
tons exist unchanglngly, whose tea crop
Is as famous and distinctly known in the
eastern world as the various cbateauI Of
France are 10 the wine experts Of Europe.
Just as the millionsires Of Europe control
certain vineyards, so DO the miiliouaires
Of the Flowery Kingdom control tea plan
tstions whose annual output Is worth a
kings ransom
Their point u the many we nave q
from the Chinese is the proper mode
Of packing the leaf That which goes 20
America is dumped as soon a. II IS fired.
burning hot, into a lead lined box, the lead
S soIde-ed and the alright coffin f. seut
around the globe ia the bot hold q
steamer. The tea sweats and underzoes
many changes, which alter its favor alto
gsfher and yitste is quality.
The MoBZoiian packs the poorest kind
in strong paper packages. and these 80
turn IL moTtuary lead. the better KIDD 10
soft tin paper covered boEes, still better
cues 10 silver foil inside q one pound
cases made Of splil sun dried bamboo. AID
the best 10 porcelain sars and vases.
KEEPISG TZAs SEPARATE
He packs 10 e.srtbs and quarters of a
pound. 50 that u few leaves srs iuprop
erly treated or pot cured they vii! 10;
coutsn.asts much EurrUg udlng tea IEs
Russians csmprsss tee Tea into bricks. CT
cover Is with silver foil and May paper
wrapp!ugs. or ere pat il 10 glazed jar
The principle = the same-:hs 81 odivl
sion q The tea AID the prevention q risss
attending larger packages o. ia bigger
bulk. such a. beating, sweating and nod
l8E
This principle vre have -. % learn ard
apply But az the exquisite pleasure &c
b found ia cop q truly fns tea Ths
color = a delicate gold. each leaf uufolls
into perfect oiiTs oval Is fragrance al,
tie barq Getiog hall. delicate and -. pere
fratinZ. dainty but 4is.inzglshas.s Ab0Fs
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