Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on June 13, 2006 at 16:24:29 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Milk In Tea posted by Owen Roberts on June 13, 2006 at 13:15:39:
It is SD Chapter XXXI - Roger withg a sprained foot spending a night with Young Billy.
Billy put two duck eggs into the kettle. "Roger knew that Susan said you ought not to boil eggs in the kettle if you could help it...."
"He (Billy) took the eggs out of the kettle and put in some tea and put the kettle back on the fire with the tea in it, a thing Susan never did" One hopes that the eggs were clean!
Just shows how you can learn from TARBOARD. I had always assumed that the second quotation meant that Susan never made tea in the kettle, but obviously it was the boiling it with the tea leaves in which Susan found objectionable.
As a matter of interest the tradition in Lowestoft herring drifters (and I suspect in many other ships of the time) was to leave the kettle permanently simmering on the stove, adding more water, tea leaves, sugar and condensed milk from time to time as the fishermen saw fit until no more tea leaves could be put in. Only then was it emptied over the side and a fresh start made. By all accounts the resulting beverage was memorable.