Mmmm, tea. The water *has* to be boiling when it goes onto the leaves, and it's best if the pot has been warmed first so that the tea draws properly while it's still hot. I say "leaves", incidentally, but mine come in bags - my mother would never use bags, only loose tea, but the bags have come a long way in thirty years.
Then the milk has to go into the cup first. Seriously, you can taste the difference when the milk has been scalded by being added to the tea instead of the other way round. I always roll my eyes when I see actors in "British" roles pouring the tea first and then adding the milk - even Anthony Hopkins did it playing C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands. :rolleyes:
And it has to be full cream (whole) milk. Skimmed or semi-skimmed tastes thin.
(We probably shouldn't get into whether the cream or the jam goes onto the scones first...)
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