An eternal verity, with variations
Apr. 2nd, 2014 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceBecause it is four in the afternoon and I am an Englishman abroad, of course I am brewing tea.
Because I am also what the people I am writing about would undoubtedly have called an Orientalist (eww, I know - but make allowances for me, I am engaged in an Edwardian imperialist mindset*), this is not your classic Anglo-Indian black tea with milk or lemon. I really only like Chinese teas these days. This is Imperial White, and I wish I had a pot and cup good enough to live up to it.
Because I have a new Thermapen, I note that the water went in at 187°F, rather than the 175° that would be ideal.
Isn't this interesting...?
*It's really interesting, actually. I am kind of pretending to be my grandfather.
Because I am also what the people I am writing about would undoubtedly have called an Orientalist (eww, I know - but make allowances for me, I am engaged in an Edwardian imperialist mindset*), this is not your classic Anglo-Indian black tea with milk or lemon. I really only like Chinese teas these days. This is Imperial White, and I wish I had a pot and cup good enough to live up to it.
Because I have a new Thermapen, I note that the water went in at 187°F, rather than the 175° that would be ideal.
Isn't this interesting...?
*It's really interesting, actually. I am kind of pretending to be my grandfather.