Tea Making Tips (1941)

This was brought to my attention earlier today, and I felt I had to share it. A national broadcast highlighting how to appropriately brew a good old english cuppa. Regardless of the haphazard info and lack of any sort of detail, you have to admire the fact that these videos were made to educate the masses. 

Makes me want to do a re-make but with the information we currently obtain when brewing tea and coffee. 

Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say ‘orf’ instead of ‘off’. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There’s an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself. Slightly grotesque methods for producing tea en masse are demonstrated - it was wartime, after all - and tea had to be produced by the oceanful. As such, there are some top tips for cleaning that hard-to-reach tap in your tea urn. Remember: “a dirty tap means dirty tea”. (Robin Baker)

Dunne

(Source: bfi.org.uk)