Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, vickiebee 
> <[email protected]>  on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 04:58:26 awoke 
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>> Nicholas D. Richards wrote: [..]
>>>>> 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
>> 
> Born in Yalta although her travel ID documents said Kharkov (as
> was), a 'former person'.  We always thought she was Russian, at least
> that was the common language between her and my mother.  However when
> they were still alive I taped my Latvian Jewish Grandfather and her 
> talking  which my mother would not/could not translate.
> 
> Recently my brother asked his Ukrainian sister in law if she could 
> translate the tape. A look of surprise came across her face when she
>  told us that my grandparents were not talking in Russian but 
> Ukrainian. Her surprise was nothing to our surprise.
> 
> We had always realized that we knew very little about Granny's 
> background, including her real family name, but we now realize that 
> we know even less.
> 
> Influence?  I cannot say; my mother would not let us learn Russian 
> and banned Granny from talking to us in Russian, even though they 
> always spoke to each other in Russian. ("If you were speaking in 
> Russian, to me, Daddy would think we were talking about him"
> Probably true on both counts.) From when I was aged 11 we lived
> around the corner from Granny and saw and spoke to her in broken
> English practically every day.
> 
> My mother did not learn to read and write in Russian until both her 
> parents were dead and she was retired.  Must have been a strange 
> class, the other students were learning to speak Russian as well as 
> to learn to read and write Russian.
> 
Very interesting. It's good that you taped conversations between your
grandfather and your mother. We all should do that, and with today's
technology everyone can.

How brave of your mother to take up learning Russian in her later years.

I have to say that my heart goes out to today's Ukrainian people. We in
the US have trained more than 7000 Ukrainian troops here, dozens at Ft.
Sill, a nearby Army base, teaching how to use the Patriot missile
system. I wish we could do more.
v

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