How to Make a Cup of Tea - 1

First, fill your kettle with freshly drawn cold water from the faucet. Then, when the kettle is nearly boiled, pour a little of the water into a glazed china teapot. Now swirl the water around to warm the pot.

Continue to boil the kettle - meanwhile empty the teapot. Next put a half to one teaspoonful of English breakfast tea for each person to be served into the teapot, plus one 'for the pot'; then fill the teapot with the boiling water.

Now leave the tea to brew for about three minutes or so. Then with a teaspoon agitate the tea but don’t stir the tea in the pot as there is an old English proverb that says 'If you stir the pot then you stir your troubles’.

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