As a part of growing up the biggest
challenge I faced was making tea. I mean every mother ushers her daughter
forcing her to make tea at some point or the other. In simpler words making tea
is the first step to knowing how to start cooking. Obviously you are a girl you
need to know how to cook.
Coming back to tea which is a very essential
drink in every household, some start their day with it, some at the evening,
some a few times in a day and some every hour. Tea is nothing but a concoction
of water, milk, sugar (sugarless for those who are dieting) and tea leaves
boiled continuously for around five to ten minutes and then strained and put
into beautiful cups. But that is where the beauty lies. Even with such few
ingredients and some added ones like ginger, cinnamon and other masalas, every
cup of tea tastes different.
As if every other person puts a little
magic into their tea. It surprises me how each one of us can make tea and using
the same set of things and even then it will have different tastes. Maybe its
about temperature or the order in which you put the things. I don’t know.
Tea is most of the times the first thing
every person makes. For girls it is also the only thing that she serves her
soon to be groom with. So they judge her with the kind of tea she makes.
Tea marks the beginning of our day and also
its end. It is everywhere, on the desk of a working lady, on the bedside of an
old woman, in the hands of a doctor who just finished her night duty, in the
thermos flask of the patients family and even in your kitchen.
I still do not know how to make a perfect
cup of tea though I can make any delicacy.
Maybe I am not perfect at all....
Going and getting my own tea...
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