Tea

Ingredients

• 1 tsp tea
• 2 c boiling water
• milk
• slice of lemon
• sugar

Method

1. 1

   Boil water and pour it into a teapot.

2. 2

   Add the tea and let it steep.

3. 3

   Serve with milk, sugar, and a slice of lemon.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic science (1914 text-book) (1914) by Bertha J. Hoisington Austin, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

sugar. Note to Teacher: If desired, divide the class, allowing one group to boil coffee and the other to make filtered coffee. But if there is only one French coffee pot in the laboratory, make filtered coffee as a demonstration lesson. Digitized by Google 172 DOMESTIC SCIENCE Lesson LXm Coffee (Reading) Many boys and girls are familiar with the appearance of coffee berries as they come from the store. They had a long and tedious journey before they reached the store, for coflfee berries do not grow in this country. Their home is in far away Africa in the mountainous country just west of the Red Sea. It is said that many, many hundred years ago a certain goat herder in that country noticed that when his goats had eaten of the leaves and berries of a certain tree, they became very active and frisky. So he ate some of the berries himself to see what effect they would have upon him. His neighbors accused him of drinking wine unknown to them. Of course he denied this and told them that he had eaten of the fruit of a certain tree. So they all ate some of the berries and they liked the results so well that they told others of their experience. In this way the knowledge spread farther and farther. Men who had become acquainted with the effects of the coffee berry carried the seeds with them when they went to far away regions to make their homes. It was in this way that the cultivation of the trees spread, at first chiefly in an easterly direction. The coffee tree is a very delicate one. It cannot endure the extreme heat; and a frost is death to it. Its home was near the equator in a mountainous country; whenever there is such a region provided with plenty of rainfall, the coffee tree will thrive. As has been said, the coffee trees were first carried eastward from their home. They were taken to Java, Sumatra, the Philippine Islands, and other eastern lands. In Java the sun is very hot, so the delicate coflfee trees are shaded by the over- arching branches of shade trees which are planted among them. The story of how the first coffee trees were brought to this coimtry is a very interesting one. A certain merchant who had Digitized by Google BEVERAGES I73 settled- in southern Brazil thought that the rich soil and wann climate of that country ought to grow coffee trees. So he set out on a long journey across the Atlantic in search of coffee plants. Ocean travel in those days was not so speedy and comfortable as it is now, so a journey such as he undertook was fraught with many dangers. But he reached Africa safely, and did succeed in obtaining a few plants. On the way back an accident on the ship caused a scarcity of water and no one was allowed more than one quart a day. He divided his quart equally among his plants, but when the ship reached land, only two of them were alive. However, he planted these and from them have been raised the greater number of coffee trees in Brazil, although since then many more trees have been brought from Africa to Brazil. One can realize how much this one man's effort has meant to Brazil when it is known that in Brazil today is raised two-thirds of the world's coffee. The people of the United States are the greatest coffee drinkers in the world. They buy enough coffee each year to give to each woman and child in the coxmtry twelve pounds during the year. For this large amount of coffee is spent each year, ninety million dollars. The entire crop of the world amounts to about twenty-three hundred million pounds and all but two hundred million pounds of that amount comes from this hemisphere; most of the remainder comes from the East Indies and other islands of the East. How wonderful it is when we consider that this large crop had its beginning in two little plants which a man nursed so carefully through a tedious ocean voyage. A coffee plantation, always on the sides of hills, is a very- interesting place. The coffee berries are planted in nurseries, not out in the open fields as are cotton and other plants. They soon sprout and when they are a few inches high, each is trans- planted to a little hole over which sticks and leaves are laid to protect it from the sun. Weeds must be kept down, hence the plants are cultivated until they are four years old. Then Digitized by Google 174 DOMESTIC SCIENCE they are set out ten feet apart each way. They now begin bearing and may continue to do so for thirty years or more. These trees are a species of evergreen with dark green, glossy leaves, among which may be seen the glistening, dark scarlet berries. As the trees are never allowed to grow more than twelve feet in height, they look like shrubs. The trees begin to put forth their fragrant white blossoms in December, just when our snow storms are beginning to fly through the air. The flowering season lasts several weeks, just as it does with the cotton plant. In April and May the berries begin to ripen and the harvesting also lasts for many weeks. They begin their harvesting when in the United States the farmers begin their sowing. The women and children pick the berries by hand, placing them in baskets or sacks. * They must pass through several processes before they are ready for market. When the berries come in from the field, they are soft. If the pulp is removed, a white, quite hard skin will be found under it. If this is cut away, the two beans, pale green in color, will be found lying within it with their flat sides toward each other. Before the beans can be roasted, they must be freed from the surrounding pulp and skin. This is done by machinery. The berries are carried to the factory by cars, by wagon, by mule- back, or by chutes down the mountain side. To get rid of the pulp, the berries are run through machines which crush them without injuring the seeds. The resulting mush is carried away over a cylinder in which there are holes through which the beans surrounded by the skins, drop into large vats. In the vats these are scoured by a large screw operated by machin- ery so that they come out white as snow. Outside the factories, large cement floors have been built. The berries are taken out to these floors and left in the sun for weeks xmtil they are perfectly dry. During the night they must be pro- tected from'the dew, which is harmful to them, and they must also be carefully guarded from theft, for they are valuable property. Digitized by Google BEVERAGES 175 When the berries are thoroughly dried, they are passed through some more machmery which removes the two layers of skin. Before they are shipped they must be graded. This is done by passing the coffee over a series of graduated sieves by means of which the berries of the same size are gathered together and run out through the same pipe and into bags ready for shipping. Before the coffee can be used, it must be roasted. Formerly this was done entirely at home in an iron pot over the fire or in the oven. Now it is done almost entirely in factories in large heated cylinders which are turned by machinery. In this way a more uniform roast can be obtained than by the old method. It takes about one hour and forty-five minutes to roast coffee; if it is left in the roaster too long, it will be spoiled. After roasting, it is ground or left whole and sealed in packages. ;' Lesson LXIV Tea Materials used: 1 tp tea milk 2 c boiling water (water cream freshly boiled) sugar, slice of lemon

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