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McIntyre family at tea in the grounds of Enville, Toowoomba, in 1913

Afternoon Tea

A collection of tea ephemera

Tea Punch - History and Recipes

  Back in the 1700s, sailors who would spend months at sea needed a drink to liven things up. Grog, the watered-down rum ration, could only do so much. So...

Tea Preparation Through The Dynasties

Entirely unrecognizable as the beverage we think of as “tea”, descriptions of early tea preparations include one in which “The (tea) leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into...

An Old Joke

Oft attributed to Abraham Lincoln, though probably an old joke even in the 1850s. Here, it's used as a comment on culinary acumen at sea, in a 1902 publication of Punch....

A Gift From The South

The first tea from China to arrive in Moscow was a present of 65 kilograms to Tsar Michael I from a Mongolian khan during the first half of the 17th...

On Jasmine Tea

In China, one of the customary greetings is still “sit down, have some tea,” and in Northern China this tea is most often jasmine.

Consider the Cup

A gaiwan is the simple bowl, lid and saucer that is often used to brew loose-leaf tea. The name says it all: gaiwan translates literally into "lid-bowl." Many tea historians...

A Tea By Any Other Name

The Road to Tea Time begins 3,500 years ago, in the extremely rugged mountains of southern China, not terribly far from either Burma or India. It is there that a...

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