Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
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>>> Russian black tea leaves make an excellent cold or hot tea.
>>> 
>>> 
>> With orange peel, cinnamon, and cloves? Also, don't the Russians
>> place a sugar cube between the teeth and sip tea through it?
> 
> So my Granny did.  I can remember her, on a hot summers day sitting
> in the shade of her veranda, with her samovar gently steaming away
> and drinking her tea through a sugar cube held between her few
> remaining teeth.  Though we were in London it was nostalgia for her.
> 
> It is a shame that the samovar was disposed of when she moved North
> to that there Manchester. It was a proper old fashioned samovar that
> burned charcoal.
> 

She sounds like a lady with a story to tell. Was she a great influence
on you?
v

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