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From: B Vaughan on 28 Sep 2006 15:36 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:28:40 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote: >I'm not sure exactly, but it seems to remove some, um, bitterness >you get from boiling water. Note, though, that sun tea is usually >drunk as iced tea. We always have a gallon jar of sun tea in the >frig here. Of course we have an awful lot of sunshine for making >it. Tea gets bitter from using water that's not boiling, using an inferior grade of tea, or from steeping it too long (which is usually to compensate for not using boiling water). -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: B Vaughan on 28 Sep 2006 15:36 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:26:24 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews(a)houston.rr.com> wrote: >In an Arizona summer any alternative to additional heating of the >kitchen is viewed as valuable. Here's how I make a quart of iced tea in the summer: I boil about 2 cups of water in the microwave in a glass measuring cup. I put the tea to steep in the boiling water, along with a leaf of fresh mint. Then I strain it, add cold water, a very small amount of fresh-squeezed lemon and a small amount of sugar. I don't add ice; I just put it in the fridge for a few hours. (I like my iced tea to taste of tea, not lemon.) Doesn't heat up the kitchen. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: B Vaughan on 28 Sep 2006 15:36 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:25:39 +0200, Giovanni Drogo <drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote: >On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, B Vaughan wrote: > >> That's odd; we have a neighbor named Ilario. I didn't know it was an >> unusual name. I don't know of any Sant'Ilario connections around here. I think our neighbor has always lived in this town, as his mother lives here also. >I have a cousin called Defendente Vladimiro. Now S.Defendente (*) is the >patron saint of the place where he was born (50 km from here), and the >name is used there. But I can still remember the blank stare of a nurse >at a hospital here in Milan when his daughter gave her father's name ! I was amused a while ago to see a funeral mass announcement for a woman named Atea (Atheist). I imagine her father was a fervent Marxist. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: Hatunen on 28 Sep 2006 16:21 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:36:01 +0200, B Vaughan<me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:26:24 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews" ><frankfmatthews(a)houston.rr.com> wrote: > >>In an Arizona summer any alternative to additional heating of the >>kitchen is viewed as valuable. > >Here's how I make a quart of iced tea in the summer: > >I boil about 2 cups of water in the microwave in a glass measuring >cup. I put the tea to steep in the boiling water, along with a leaf of >fresh mint. Then I strain it, add cold water, a very small amount of >fresh-squeezed lemon and a small amount of sugar. I don't add ice; I >just put it in the fridge for a few hours. (I like my iced tea to >taste of tea, not lemon.) > >Doesn't heat up the kitchen. In Arizona you'll need to make more than two cups. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: James Silverton on 28 Sep 2006 16:27
Hello, Keith! You wrote on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:57:01 +0100: ??>> In passing, tho I am American, I rather like the British ??>> custom of not regarding Mr, Dr etc as abbreviations and ??>> thus omitting the period. KA> When I was at school in the 1950s/60s, I was taught to use KA> the full stop after Mrs. Dr. and so on. KA> Having perused my "Practical English Usage" (Oxford KA> University Press) it states that "modern" British English KA> usually omits the full stop (period) after such KA> abbreviations whereas US English doesn't. KA> I honestly have no idea, therefore, what the author means KA> by "modern", (!!!) I use Chambers English Dictionary (1990) and Mr, Mrs and Ms are listed without the period and also used that way if you go to the actual entry for mister. James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not |