Question for the UK posters

[tennisfan]

You forgot one important thing though, the Rich Tea biscuits:
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One dunks are a rubbish biscuit choice

 

[NotUrsula]

4. After stirring, tap the teaspoon on the lip of the mug a few times in a nice jaunty fashion to signal ‘it’s ready’.

Oh and for you Americans, please never, ever make tea in a microwave, this is madness

To be fair, Americans don't actually *make* tea in a microwave; they just use it to heat the water, then pretty much follow the same procedure BPT2 described. The particular also add a porcelain spoon to the water to allow it to bubble and prevent superheating. The tea itself doesn't normally get microwaved.

The tea is very seldom Barry's in the US, and that is a drawback.

My mother used to split the difference when making single servings of tea with a teabag. She used 2 empty cups/mugs; steeped the tea in one, put milk in the bottom of the other one, poured the tea from one to the other and drank from the one with the milk in, so that it was made "milk first" as you do when pouring from a teapot.

True confession time: I don't drink tea, at all -- I despise the aroma and taste of tea. However, it was my childhood chore to make it, both hot and iced, and I also made it for years in restaurants, so I've still got technique.