Do you know how to prepare a A Nice Cup of Tea? On this essay George Orwell explains the 11 rules for make it:
1. Use tea from India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka), not China
2. Use a teapot, preferably ceramic
3. Warm the pot over direct heat
4. Tea should be strong – six spoons of leaves per 1 litre
5. Let the leaves move around the pot – no bags or strainers
6. Take the pot to the boiling kettle
7. Stir or shake the pot
8. Drink out of a tall, mug-shaped tea cup
9. Don’t add creamy milk
10. Add milk to the tea, not vice versa
11. No sugar!
If you want more information about it I suggest to you read the BBC article How to make a perfect cuppa (with pictures of the steps), the text Tea maybe from
the Douglas Adam ‘s book The Salmon of Doubt (don’t forget to see the flash animation), the PDF of How to make a Perfect Cup of Tea from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Wikipedia entry about Tea.