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In 'A Nice Cup of Tea', George Orwell outlines his personal guidelines for making the perfect cup of tea, emphasizing the importance of using Indian or Ceylonese tea and specific preparation techniques. He provides eleven golden rules, including using a proper teapot, ensuring the tea is strong, and avoiding sugar to preserve the tea's flavor. The essay concludes with a reminder that the quality of tea preparation contributes to overall enjoyment and happiness.

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In 'A Nice Cup of Tea', George Orwell outlines his personal guidelines for making the perfect cup of tea, emphasizing the importance of using Indian or Ceylonese tea and specific preparation techniques. He provides eleven golden rules, including using a proper teapot, ensuring the tea is strong, and avoiding sugar to preserve the tea's flavor. The essay concludes with a reminder that the quality of tea preparation contributes to overall enjoyment and happiness.

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UNIT-2 (PROSE -1)

A NICE CUP OF TEA


- George Orwell
General Paragraph for the Prose “A NICE CUP OF TEA”.
Synopsis:
• Introduction
• The recipe
• Author’s recipe
• The eleven golden rules
• Author’s advice
• Conclusion

Introduction:
George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, novelist and
critic. In this essay, Orwell highlights the distinctive features of
preparing a nice cup of tea.

The recipe:
Preparation of tea is not mentioned in any of the cookery book.
Though tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in Britain, Eire,
Australia and New Zealand its manner of making is the subject of
controversy.

Author’s recipe:
Author found his own guidelines for preparing tea. He drafted
eleven points for preparing tea.
The eleven golden rules:
First rule:
One should use Indian tea or Ceylonese tea. China tea is not
preferable because it does not give much stimulation. One does not
feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after having it. So Indian tea is
‘A nice cup of Tea’.
Second rule:
Tea should be made in small quantities and in a tea pot. The
tea pot should be made of China or earthenware. Silver of Britannia
ware teapots produce inferior tea and Pewter teapots will make a
better one.

Third rule:
The pot should be warmed beforehand. This can be done by
placing the pot on the hob than the usual method of swilling it out
with hot water.

Fourth rule:
The tea should be strong. He feels that one strong is better than
twenty weak ones. All true tea lovers will not only love to take their
tea strong but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

Fifth rule:
The tea should be put straight into the pot. No strainers, muslin
bags or other devices to imprison the tea. In some countries, people
use dangling baskets to catch the stray leaves. If the tea is
imprisoned in the pot it never infuses properly.
Sixth Rule:
The teapot should be taken to the kettle and not the other way
about. The water should be actually boiling at the moment of
impact, which means one should keep it on the flame while one
pours.

Seventh rule:
After making the tea one should stir it or better give the pot a
good shake, afterwards allowing the leaves to settle.

Eighth rule:
One should drink out of a good breakfast cup- that is the
cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup
holds more but is always half cold before we have it.

Ninth rule:
One should pour only the milk without the cream. Milk that is too
creamy always gives tea a sickly taste

Tenth rule:
First the tea should be poured into the cup first. This is the most
controversial points of all. By putting the tea in first and stirring as
one pours, one can regulate the amount of milk according to each
one’s taste.

Eleventh rule:
Lastly, one should drink tea without sugar. This is the Russian
style. If we add sugar to tea, we destroy the flavour of the tea. If we
sweeten it, we are merely tasting the sugar which is dissolved in
plain hot water.

Author’s advice:
To the people who add sugar to their tea, the author asks them to
try drinking it without sugar for a fortnight (14 days) and they will
never drink tea by sweetening it again.

Conclusion:
We should not only focus in these eleven points. Also, we should
warm the pot properly, use the right quantity of water and a good
quality tea pot

Moral:
YOU CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS BUT YOU CAN TEA INSTEAD OF THAT.

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