Sunday, December 1, 2013

Tea Ceremony in Western Europe

Germany
While Germany is a country mainly of coffee, the Ostfriesland region known for its consumption of tea and tea culture. Strong Assam tea is served when there are visitors on a house in East Frisian or other meeting, but also breakfast, mid-afternoon and evening in the middle. The traditional preparation is as follows: A kluntjes, a rock candy that melts slowly added to the cup is empty (allowing multiple cups to be sweetened), the tea is poured on Kluntje. A heavy cream is added to the flavor of tea. It is without a spoon and drinking indifferent, i. and. in three layers: a beginning mainly cream flavor of tea and finally the Kluntje on the bottom of the cup. Stir the tea would interfere with all three levels in a traditional tea and spoil you like. Tea is usually served with small cookies and pastries during the week during special occasions or on weekends, as a special treat. The tea is rumored to headaches, stomach problems and stress to treat, among many other disorders.


Portugal
Tea grows in Portugal takes the Azores, an archipelago located 800 miles west of mainland Portugal. Portugal is the first practice of tea drinking in Europe and the first European country to introduce the tea products.
In 1750, fields, ranging from the field of Capelas those of Porto Formoso, on the island of São Miguel for the first test crop of tea. They delivered 10 kg and 8 kg of black tea, green tea. A century later, with the introduction of skilled workers from the region of Macao of China in 1883, production has been greatly expanded and culture. Following the instructions of these workers were the species Jasminum grandiflorum and vacciones Malva know 'nobility' to give the flavor of tea, but only Jasminum was used.
This tea is currently marketed under the name of the connection Gorreana processed and independent family. No herbicides or pesticides are allowed in the growth process, and modern consumers associate the most recent production of organic tea. However, no rules on the production plant and its culture changed over the last 250 years.

Republic of Ireland
The Republic of Ireland, for a long time, was one of the largest per capita consumer of tea in the world. The national average is four cups per day per person, with many people drinking six or more cups.

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