Transcript Russian And English Tea Traditions CONTENTS History of Russian tea  History of English tea  Russian tea  English tea  For fun and.

Russian And English Tea Traditions
CONTENTS
History of Russian tea
 History of English tea
 Russian tea
 English tea
 For fun and profit
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Russian tea history.
In 1567 Cossack atamans Petrov and Yalyshev visited China
where they tried a local drink – tea. In 1638 an ambassador
Vasiliy Starkov brought a present to the Russian Tsar from
one of Mongol Khans – 64 kg of tea. In 1665 when the Tsar
Aleksey Mikhaylovich had got stomach aches the court doctor,
Samoylo Kallins treated him with tea. So Russian tea history
began.
Tea was brought to Russia from Northern China where it was
called “cha-i” or “cha-e” that is why in Russia the drink got the
name “chay” (tea). In Russia tea was often called “the Chinese
herb” or “the Chinese dry herb”.
By 1820 the set of rules and customs, called Russian tea
traditions, generally had formed – though tea was still too
expensive to become a mass drink. In 1833 first tea
plantations appeared in Georgia which was a part of Russian
Empire. In 1882 in St. Petersburg the first official tea-room
was opened.
The last point of the Russian tea history is 1900. That year
the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was finished.
The transportation of tea by this road made the drink rather
cheap and mass in Russia.
English tea history.
Many stories end with a marriage, but this story starts with
a marriage… This is the story of English tea. In 1662 Prince
Charles II married the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of
Braganza. The princess was very fond of tea and since that
time the English tea tradition began.
Tea was brought from China and until the middle of the 19th
century there was no other tea. But this tea was very
expensive and the English were trying to find ways to grow
tea in their own colonies. In 1835 in Assam, an Indian state,
first tea was grown
In 1840 the most beautiful part of English tea history
started. Anna Maria Stanhope, the Duchess of Bedford
completely formed English tea traditions. She invented
afternoon tea – tea between lunch and dinner with fine
conversation.
In 1870 R. Twining & Co. Ltd. first began to blend teas to
improve the taste of final drink and to provide the stability of
quality. In 1875 Thomas Lipton who made Ceylon a tea island
opened his first shop. By the end of the 19th century the
forming of Tea Britain was for the most part over.
Tea became an element of English mass culture. The most
popular tea sorts in Great Britain are Brooke Bond, Lipton,
Twinning, The Earl Grey, Jacksons of Piccadilly and The
Darjeeling Garden.
Russian tea.
There are small and pleasant tea things which were
invented in Russia: tea with lemon, drinking tea from the
saucer and tea “vprikusku” (drinking tea holding a lump of
sugar in the mouth)
Tea with lemon.
Tea with this “yellow sour thing” was popular among the
travellers at the Russian roads and post station. At that time
already, the drink was known to help all jolted and sick. The
way from posts to metropolitan salons tea with lemon made
rather fast. In Western Europe black tea with a slice of lemon
was called “Russian tea”.
Drinking tea from a saucer.
The custom to drink tea from a saucer is connected with the
samovar. In samovar water boiled quite long. The tea pot
was kept on top of the samovar, so the brew was also very
hot. It was simply impossible to drink such tea. So people
started pouring it into saucers. First, it faster got cooler
there. Second, one could sip tea from the saucer and mix it
with air when inhaling.
Tea “vprikusku”.
As for tea “vprikusku” this custom appeared because of high
prices both for tea and for sugar. At rich houses it was
customary to under fill the cup with tea. Guests could easily
add sugar or jam into the cup – and such under filled cups
were the symbol of wealth of the house and respect for the
guest. At poor houses hosts filled cups full, so that nothing
else could be put into cup. The lumps of sugar guests put
into the mouth and drank tea through them.
English tea.
Tea-drinking is quite a tradition with English. They have it
a lot of times during the day. The main signs of English tea
are tea with milk, laying the table for 5 o’clock tea, hot
water adding.
Tea with milk.
English tea is tea with milk. Drinking tea with milk is an old
English tradition. The rule says that first you should pour
milk into a cup and then tea. This custom appeared because
the earliest porcelain cups manufactured in England were
likely to crack it very hot tea was poured directly into them.
Placing the milk in the cup before adding the tea helped to
protect the cup.
Five-o-clock tea.
To lay the table for English 5 o’clock tea ceremony you need
one-color (white or blue) table cloth, a small vase with
flowers, a fork and a knife for every tea-drinking person,
serviettes, tea cups and saucers, the tea pot with tea, a jug
with boiled water, a jug milk or cream, sugar –bowl with
lump sugar, tea spoons. Small plates with bread and butter
or bread and jam, biscuits, small sandwiches are also on
the table.
Hot water adding.
The main secret of the English tea ceremony is the very hot
water adding. Tea is brewed for 3 – 5 minutes in the tea pot
and then poured out into cups. Right after it hot water from a
water-jug is added to the tea pot. This water-adding dilutes
tea, which will have drawn by the moment when the first cup
will be over and will keep tea relatively hot and still rather
tasty for the repeated drinking.
When do English drink tea?
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At eight o'clock in the morning
For our breakfast we'll see
Cornflakes and buttered toast
And let's have a cup of tea!
At four o'clock in the afternoon
There'll be food for you and me!
Cream cakes and sandwiches
And let's have a cup of tea!
At seven o'clock in the evening
A lovely supper we'll see
Chips, peas and fish-fingers
And let's have a cup of tea!
At ten o'clock at night
We'll have a piece of bread
And I'll make a cup of tea
And then we'll go to bed.
If you want to enjoy drinking black tea, you should
follow nine very important rules.
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You should have several teas on your kitchen shelf and you can choose one according
to your mood.
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Water must be water. Use filters, buy bottled water, find clean springs with soft
water, and do not use kettles with a lot of far.
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Water should not be over boiled. Let the kettle boil, but not too long. Do not boil
water repeatedly.
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The tea pot should be porcelain, clay or glass. It should be add any strange taste to
tea.
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Better drink tea from a cup and not a mug. The cup possibly should have thin walls.
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If you want to add anything to tea (sugar, milk, lemon, liquor) better make tea
stronger. If you are interested in the taste of tea itself than do not make it too
strong.
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Wait till tea gets a bit cooler. Not to burn your mouth.
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No “secondary” tea! Do not be lazy to make every time new tea for yourself and your
guests.
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Do not concentrate exclusively on tea when you drink it. Talks, read, listen to music
– then tea will be the most delicious.
Put the pictures into the correct order
and match them with sentences.
a) Boil the water
b) Warm the pot
c) Put one teaspoon of tea in
the pot for each person and
one extra for the pot
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d) Pour hot water into the pot
e) Fill the kettle with cold
water
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3
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