jamesthomas
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So folks is it coffee or hot tea on cold winters morning? I'm a Earl Grey hot tea guy myself.
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Black Hand
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At home, at work or in the woods?armakiller said:
Usually espresso to start the day, then green Hyson tea at work. In the woods, coffee, coffee, more coffee and sometimes chocolate.
jamesthomas
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Lets say at home or in the woods. I'll have my grandads thermos with me this year. Hot chocalate is good every now an then.
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Then coffee is the primary hot beverage at home and in the woods. Though a little tea is a nice civilizing change every so often...
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I'm not picky. Coffee or Tea. I carry Tea in my haversack and usually keep the coffee at the camp site. At home coffee or tea depending how awake I want to be.
Coffee!!!
Tea is for the English.
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(ok I admit that I have a cup of tea occasionaly, spearmint and black tea blended)
Tea is for the English.
:blah:
(ok I admit that I have a cup of tea occasionaly, spearmint and black tea blended)
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Hot chocolate was also a comon drink.
YES WE ARE!
Coffee at home..., gunpowder tea at events or when hunting.
LD
My granny liked that Imperial Gunpowder tea.Loyalist Dave said:
I thought it was horrid!
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yes, tea. I like the strong sweet breakfast tea sweetened some myself.
No, Gunpowder Tea is a form of green tea authentic to the 18th century in the colonies.
Many people make green tea wrong, and thus really make gunpowder tea wrong. Unlike coffee or black tea, one does not pour water straight from the boil onto the tea, or worse one does not drop the tea into boiling water and then remove that water from the heat.
Green tea is supposed to be steeped in water of about 180º-190º temp, so boil the water and allow it to cool for about five minutes before adding the tea.
When making gunpowder tea, use a small amount. For a pint of water you want about enough tea to cover a quater coin if it was held flat in your hand, no more. Some websites say a teaspoon for 6 - 8 ounces, and I'd say more like 16 ounces per teaspoon. For the best tasting tea, you nead to decant the tea from the leaves after about 3 minutes, but I just use a little less tea, and the leaves settle at the bottom of my cup.
Gunpowder tea when made too strong will give you a very smokey aroma and very strong flavor, and when dumped into boiling water the bitterness is highly increased.
I like it as a little goes a long way, so takes up very little room in my pack, but gives caffeine and anti-oxidants.
LD
Many people make green tea wrong, and thus really make gunpowder tea wrong. Unlike coffee or black tea, one does not pour water straight from the boil onto the tea, or worse one does not drop the tea into boiling water and then remove that water from the heat.
Green tea is supposed to be steeped in water of about 180º-190º temp, so boil the water and allow it to cool for about five minutes before adding the tea.
When making gunpowder tea, use a small amount. For a pint of water you want about enough tea to cover a quater coin if it was held flat in your hand, no more. Some websites say a teaspoon for 6 - 8 ounces, and I'd say more like 16 ounces per teaspoon. For the best tasting tea, you nead to decant the tea from the leaves after about 3 minutes, but I just use a little less tea, and the leaves settle at the bottom of my cup.
Gunpowder tea when made too strong will give you a very smokey aroma and very strong flavor, and when dumped into boiling water the bitterness is highly increased.
I like it as a little goes a long way, so takes up very little room in my pack, but gives caffeine and anti-oxidants.
LD
I understand now. I have never heard of gunpowder tea before and the closest I had heard anything along these lines was in Bernard Cornwall's series of SHARPE'S RIFLES in which he tells that the riflemen carry their tea leaves loose in the bottom of their cartridge pouchs and gunpowder ends up mixing with the tea leaves making a very bitter tea....................watch yer top knot.............
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I'll take either... the only thing I don't care for on the tea route though are the English style breakfast teas unless I have some honey.
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Billy Tea, not to be confused with Billy beer. :rotf:
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I'm not picky. I like both, but it does kind of depend on my mood at that time. Sometimes I just want one over the other for some unknown reason. Now the REALLY cold mornings, you could give me warm water with nothing in it and keep me happy. :rotf:
