Posted by Jenny Berki on June 13, 2006 at 12:40:52 from 217.205.198.23 user JennyB.
In Reply to: Re: Milk In Tea posted by PeterH on June 13, 2006 at 12:27:26:
You're right Peter, trivia matters! And I think you're also right that no teapot is ever mentioned. Neither is a milk-jug, they had a milk can. It's pretty awkward to pour from a milk can into a mug. And I can't recall any mention of Susan adding milk to anything other than cornflakes - she adds sugar to tea, but not milk. No teapot means no tea-strainer, and teabags weren't invented, they were using the loose-leaf stuff. So did she boil up a kettle of water, add tea-leaves AND MILK, pour it out and then add sugar?
Also, did she even have a teaspoon? Somewhere there is a reference to wet sugar dripping out of a mug, implying no stirring beforehand. (As usual, this has occurred to me while I'm at work, miles away from my AR's. Was it PP?).
I'm a milk-in-second advocate.