Tea what is it and where does it come from?

Tea the Elixir of Life

Tea the elixir of life.

Tea Making Tips, 6 Golden Rules

1. Always buy a good quality tea (it goes further)
   
2. Fresh water for boiling every time (the water is then oxygenated)
   
3. Bring water to the boil, but do not over boil
   
4. Warm the teapot first, bring the teapot to the kettle
   
5. Put in enough tea for size of pot or quantity of water
6. Steep for 3 to 5 minutes (this video says up to 10 minutes, but that would have to be a very large pot, or they must have liked their tea a lot stronger back then)
   

Elephant Walk

Elephant Walk the name of the movie, is a tea plantation in Ceylon. These two shots I took off the TV movie while playing. Did some tea plantation houses, look like this? Look at all the Tea pickers in the background. Ceylon, now Sri Lanka must have some spectacular tea plantations.

Elephant walk the plantation and the house, built by the arrogant, now dead father was built right on the path of where the elephants walk. How many years can they hold them back before it is reclaimed. the movie is mediocre, but I liked looking at the tea plantation and the house. It made me think of taking a look at different tea plantations.

In the UK we came to know these as Bungalows, which is an anglicised Indian word. We would say as kids, 'bung a low roof on.' But it came to represent in the UK a one storey residence. It derives from the Hindi and Urdi word, Bagla, which means house in the Bengali style. In India they would very often have a porch and be one and a half stories.

1956 Bell Telephone For The Kitchen

1956 Bell System- Once Upon A Honeymoon
Musical made to promote color telephones in the modern home. Thanks to TV Days.

A Helpful Guide To Cooking Terms

A new 1949 wife needs to know cooking terminology, so does a 2009 fifteen year old son. I think I'll let him watch this.

The kitchen in the first house we bought had the same cabinets as you will see and we had that stove.