In Illinois, I belonged to a British group and we used a coffee urn kept
especially for tea  We could make 40 cups if necessary.
The DBE (Daughters of the British Empire) that meet in my new area of southern
California, use 3 tea pots for about 24 people with the 3 electric kettles
permanently on the go at our monthly meeting. Â In October, we are holding a
proper Afternoon Tea for 100 people and will have 2 teapots to each table of
10. Â I get to make all the shortbread for the occasion (my speciality).
 Thank goodness I was not assigned the scones or sausage rolls.
Last week I attended an Afternoon Tea at Huntington Library in Pasadena and
for a table of 6 ladies we were provided with 3 huge pot teapots holding 8
cups each and the waitress kept topping up the water in all of them. Â These
teas were all various flower/fruit flavors. Â I was with Americans so nobody
wanted a good old cuppa of black tea.  This was the best Afternoon Tea I
have been to in the US. Â Had so much to eat, I did not need dinner, although
the scones were little and hard. All of these teas are made with teabags in
the pots.
Personally, I use our Kuerig machine for hot water and brew my Rooibus tea
from a teabag in the mug. Â I am not a tea snob.
Janice Blair
Murrieta, CA, 60 miles north of San Diego
www.jblace.com
www.lacemakersofillinois.org
On Thursday, June 4, 2015 3:51 PM, Lyn Bailey <lynrbai...@supernet.com>
wrote:
I hope this is the right place to go for this help. I live in America,
where
they don�� know how to make a cup of English tea. (Heat the pot, boil
the
water, all that.) Warm water and a tea bag next to it. I belong to a Jane
Austen group that serves tea this way. We also have a fund raiser every
year,
an English tea as close as we can get it, but they will persist in a teapot
of
hot water and your choice of teabags in your cup. I figure since so many of
Arachne members are Brits, I might be able to get good advice. Online they
say use a tea concentrate, brewed with loose tea, meticulously measured with
the boiling water in the pot. I figure Brits must have socials and church
meetings and the like with large numbers of people, like 60. Is this a good
way to do it, or is there another way to do this?
I appreciate any suggestions.
Lyn Bailey, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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