Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-18
Expert Gives Housewives a Few
Pointers on This Most lmpOr.
tant Home Function.
WAR IS AFFECTING PRICES.
Coffee Also Advancing Due to a
Shortage Of Central Amer.
eau Crop.

"The tea market promises to make a
marked advance" said the local repre-
sentative Of prominent San Francis
co house this morning, This is due
20 the scarcity Of tea pckers, SO many
of the japanese who would otherwise be
in the fields being In the armies on the
continent lighting the Russians This
has sent wages up correspondlngly.
However, for the immediate future the
advance is rather prospective because
picking does not come until May, and
continues through July only IN the face
OF certainty OF a future rise IN cost
OF production, shippers may take the
opportunity to advance prices on stocks
now being disposed Of
THE tea consumed I'm Utah at large
Is 30 per cent japanese while I'm the
mining camps the tea consumed is
mostly Chinese, This last fact Is said
TO be due to the presence there of 80
many foreigners, who prefer the Chi
nese article. or the farmers. II is said
that so per cent use the Japan teas.
Utah Is one Of the largest tea cOusum-
Ing states In the Union per capita; and
the article WHOLESALERS here az ij cents
to $40 per pound, ana retails at 90
cents to So per pound
HOW TO COOK TEA.
There is everything 30 knowing how
10 cook tea. Most people le, their tea
steep I'm the leaves, sometimes for
considerable length Of time. This is
wrong and the following method should
be observed II we want TO get the best
out OF the article: Scald out the tea
pot, first thing, Then put iu one tea
spoonful Of the leaves for each cup de-
sired, ana next pour boiling hot fresh
water into the pot. Seven minutes Is
ample time In which 20 let the tea
cook as after that time, the strength
is gone from the leaves and develop
ment Of fannie acid sets In. People
may notice the puckery, Rripy taste to
teas that have stood for some time This
Is the fannie acid, and 1t is not COM
ducive TO good digestion IN fact It is
detrimental, ana It's presence I'm the
stomach is to be avoided Strain the
tea off between five and seven minutes
of cooking, and throw the leaves away,
After this, the tea proper may be kept
any length Of time"
COFFEE CROP SHORT.
When asked as to coffees, the sales
man replied that prices are also steadily
odyancingdue to "A shortage of The Cen
tral American crop, most of which finds
It's way west OF the Mississippi river
East Of that river the South American
coifees are mostly used, and the short
age I'm the Central American article is
stimulating the northern shipments
generally Of the South American ber-
ny. The best favored and milder cof-
fee IS from Central America, The
Turkish berry ~ oily and rank, and is
naturally not as much I'm favor as the
American article Most Of the so-called
Java and Mocha coffee on the market
never saw Arabia or the island Of Java.
Some years ago coffee shrubs from both
those countries were transplanted TO
Central America, where the two classes
Of shrubs We're extensively grown ana
the products shipped out as the genuine
Mocha and Java article Whether
these win porpetuato themselves and re-
tain the characteristics Of the Asiatic
plants, the same as though In the orig
inal soils is question that botanists
VIII have TO answer Prices, whole
sale, al present, range from 1872 to 80
cents, and retail fro 20 to so cents