• Always warm your teapot with hot
    water before brewing.
  • Use one heaped teaspoon of tea
    leaves for each person.
  • Do not over-boil water or the water will
    lose oxygen and result in a bitter,
    muddy brew.
  • Allow the tea to stand and brew for
    three to six minutes according to the
    leaf size.
  • Strain your leaves as you pour tea into
    your cup.
  • If you take your tea with milk, add the milk to your cup before pouring the tea. Milk,
    never cream, is served with tea. Cream is too heavy for tea and belongs with
    coffee. The milk is always served at room temperature, never cold, as it cools the
    tea too quickly.  Also, do not add milk to an herbal or green tea.
  • Avoid tea bags. They produce a lower quality of tea and usually consist of tea dust.
  • Try not to add sugar to tea as it spoils the taste. However, if you do serve sugar,
    loose sugar is for the Irish, and sugar cubes are an English matter.
  • Never serve lemon with milk. Lemon curdles the milk.
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About Camille's Tea:
Camille's Tea, based in the San Antonio, Texas area, offers a wide variety of gourmet teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green teas,
herbal teas, decaffeinated teas, decaf teas, caffeine free teas, and iced teas, and lavender, Shea butter, Chantal teapots, Lomonosov teapots, tea
infusers, tea accessories, Bearington Bears, tea linens, neck warmers, Herbal Concepts slippers and eye pacs, and Pre de Provence bath and
body products.  We also feature multiple tea of the month clubs.  Read more >>
To pay by check or money order,  email camille@camillestea.com.