Tea in a pot with a teacosy anyone? (lighthearted thread)

We were given a 1 pint Old Hall stainless steel teapot as a wedding present in 1962 and it has been in daily use since. It does perfectly for two (bone China) mugs. We have over the years acquired 1.5 and 2 pint versions of this wonderful design classic and they are in regular use. We also have two inherited silver pots which rarely see the light of day unless we are trying to look civilised - which we have rather given up.

These days tea bags of various flavours mean that family members’ disparate tastes can be catered for. It was much easier in the distant past when it was Typhoo or nothing!

MamaCaz Well, we're a couple of old fogeys then, aren't we!

" Well, I couldn't have done it in a month of Sundays. "

I love that expression, giulia - I still use it sometimes, but don't think I have ever heard the next generation using it

MamaCaz Well, I couldn't have done it in a month of Sundays.

That’s beautiful Mama! ???

I really wish I could take credit for the design, giulia, but I'm not that clever. It was someone else's pattern, with just a few twists of my own added here and there in the trimmings.

MamaCaz FANTASTIC! Well done and what creativity! I bet your grandchildren love it and want tea from the fairy pot.

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My fairy house tea cosy. I made it to fit the bone China teapot that was part of a prize I won here on Gransnet

Regarding getting rid of tea leaves. I'm lucky enough to now have a garden, albeit a tiny one, so leaves go on the garden as a mulch or in the food waste bin if it's bucketting down outside. Before I had a garden they went down the loo, never the sink.

Tea bag in a mug here Mr P doesn't drink tea, and I only have I cup/mug a day, first thing in the morning.

But putting the milk in before the water that is wrong, wrong, wrong!

I use the teapot when there`s more than one person for tea, otherwise it`s a teabag in the mug. I always used loose leaf tea until we moved into a touring caravan temporarily (it lasted 15 months!), so then teabags were more practical, but just never went back to loose tea. I used to use Hornimans and save the stamps off the packet.
When I got married, my grandma gave me a sort of double spoon thingy with a spring action, it had little holes in it and was for putting tea in and brewing in the cup, she used it a lot, but I never have, it`s still in my kitchen drawer though.

Love the George Orwell link Londongranny.

Londongranny

I agree, it’s something my husband and I have done since our very first days together, we always eat breakfast at the table with a pot of tea, we’re early risers, so never in a rush, and he certainly does make a very good cup of tea.

I've been pondering this teapot vs bag & mug. I think it's more than the tea being properly brewed. It's about making the space for a calming ritual rather than tea-on-the-go-don't-stop-and-make- time-for-a-breather.

Tea bags- Kericho Gold bought on line. China teapot and a bone china cup AND saucer. Visitors all say tea tastes better if made in a teapot.

Urmstongran

We had one of those as well, ours was cream and red, and a very tinny teapot.

I’d forgotten that I have an Ingenuitea. I’ve just got it out and made a really good mug of tea!

My padded tea cosy was bought for me years ago by my mother from the Sandringham Castle Gift Shop.

I remember her saying to me, tongue in cheek, that the Queen hadn't actually made it herself!

The inside is covered with teastains that don't wash out but I will never change it as the design on the material is so pretty and because it reminds me still of my mother.

teabags here in a teapot on a t-pot stand that was my husbands Gran's and covered with a cosy.I buy a new one at a local market every couple of years from a very small company called Tempest in a teacup.

‘Caddy-Matic’. !!

Does anybody remember those (plastic) wall mounted loose tea dispensers from the early 70’s? Mum had one. They came in a range of colours! Can’t recollect what they were called.

mangalam loose leaf tea in the morning, adams peake ceylon in the afternoon. Using ingenui tea maker, keeps it very hot. Two of the best china mugs of tea I ever drank, worth every penny and only for me, all mine

Wildswan my father used to make his morning tea by putting tea leaves into a “pint pot” and pouring boiling water over them, then adding sugar and milk. Never strained them. He also used to take “mashings” (leaf tea and sugar) to work in a paper bag. It was common practice among blue collar workers around here back in the day.
We had an American friend whose wife would pour any excess tea out of the tea pot into a large jar they kept in the fridge. When it was full, her husband would add honey and slices of lemon and drink it! I had some. It was delicious.

I always make a pot of tea in a tea pot and use a tea cosy even when it is just for me. I always warm the tea pot too before putting measuring out 2 teaspoons of Breakfast tea. I have a fine tea strainer I use to pour through. I love being able to have a second and a third cup of tea. In afternoons I use bone china tea pot and tea set too. If I go anywhere and people offer me a mug and a tea bag I am really not impressed and end up having coffee. My kids laugh and say I am like the Queen. If anyone comes to tea I bring out my silver sugar tongs too. I don't have sugar.

wildswan.....ah, a fellow Yorkshirewoman.