George Orwell at TeaMuse by Adagio Teas

Tea, mainstay of a civilized nation, is scandalously ill‑treated in cookery books; yet its making provokes fierce quarrels. I therefore prescribe eleven inviolable rules: strong Indian leaf, a warmed china pot, boiling water, no gadgets, breakfast cups, creamless milk, tea before milk, never sugar—so rations still yield twenty properly bracing cups.