The elves drink only herbal tea. Utterly without caffeine. They have no specialists around this, all elves know how to procure and brew simple forrest teas. They never add anything to it. It's always the best cup of tea they've ever had.
Hobbits also only drink tea. But they are much more cultured about it. They have tea specialists, who have trade with far flung places to procure new and exotic teas (Hobbit tea merchants are the only acceptable "out of shire profession") They also love adding things to their teas. Lemons, milks, cinnamon..and they also have teas for different times of the day and different meals. A high tea culture, if you will.
Orcs/Uruks drink only coffee. Infact, Orcs have a robust trade system, where they trade iron ore, for coffee beans and Jamaican spiced rum. The spiced rum goes in both of their primary beverages...their morning coffee...and their "afternoon tea"..which isn't tea at all but is actually just spiced rum, bone broth and red pepper juice, shaken...not stirred. With their coffee though, it's more of a social occasion...the whole family, children included, gather in the morning for the drinking of the morning coffee. Which soon enough turns into a rather rowdy situation, especially on Mondays.
Dwarves have perhaps the highest coffee culture in all the lands, with vast trade networks, they procure the finest beans from around the globe. The idea of barista coffee, comes from the Dwarves..only they are called and are very much considered barkeepers. Infact barkeepers, brewers, roasters, barrel makers and all the various merchants are part of the same guild and one of the most difficult crafts to get accepted into as an apprentice...second only to the Veterinarians guild. The most popular way that dwarves like their coffee though, is dark roasted and slowly dripped, using only pure glacier water. A cup of dwarven coffee has no equal.
The mannish beverages are really just a lesser copy of the dwarven and hobbit styles. However, men are much more adaptable and find contentment in having good optionallity, as opposed to perfection with one thing. Though they have coffee barkeepers, it's not as regimented a profession as the dwarves have. Actually, some of the finest coffee barkeepers are women, one of only two professions they are allowed to have...barkeeper/tavern wench and sandwich shop keeper.
The various trade networks of the races often criss-cross one another, and competition is high and fierce for access to the best commodities at the best prices...and a sort of soft war or cold war has been going on for centuries amongst the various merchants. Orcs have the highest body count of merchants they've assassinated, however Hobbits are way ahead of the field when it comes to quantity of goods that have been burglared successfully from their competition.
Yo, so I know there’s probably many non-British people out there wanting to make tea now that Johnny and Mark have done it. Let me give you a quick guide so you can make a successful cup of tea that will taste *chefs kiss*
Step 1: Boil the water.
Step 2: Put your tea bag and sugar into the mug. Don’t put too much sugar in!! I see people make this mistake all the time! 2/3 teaspoons is plenty enough to make it sweet.
Step 3: Pour water into the mug.
Step 4: Let it sit for as long as you want. Usually about 2 minutes for me personally, the longer you leave it, the stronger the tea will be.
Step 5: Strain your teabag into the mug with a teaspoon and put it in the bin.
Step 6: Pour milk into the tea (not too much! You want the tea to be a dark brown).
Step 7: Stir.
Step 8: Enjoy your tea. Not everyone will like it, but I do enjoy a cuppa ☺️
I hope this helped 😆 Not everyone does these steps in this order, and it’s an argument most British people have all the time.
Make some black tea, don't let it steep for too long, (make it weak) then add a lot of sugar and possibly milk, you might like that. It's mostly just sugar and water at that point tbh.
Oh thank you for the advice anon!! I kinda recently tried out a peach flavored tea and added a bit of sugar, it wasn't toooo bad.
I'll definitely try that out then!! When you say don't let it steep too long, how long are we talking? When I made tea I usually kept it in the hot water for about 10 minutes or so. Is that too long?
I'll try to add milk the next time then! Thank you so much😊💕
Guys!!! So I had this super cute idea- millions have probably done this but here’s my post about it anyways
So!! It’s summertime. Walmart has these funky designed silicon ice cube trays right??
Use them to freeze ice cube herbs!!
I recently bought the pineapple-shaped one (but I’m considering on going back for more after this) and I went home from uni for the weekend where my mom sent me back with fresh mint and epazote leaves from her garden. I looked up some ways to store them, but then saw the ice cube method. Anyways, this fun thing happened:
After letting them freeze, this was my result! I’m actually really happy and excited about these! The top three are the mint leaves that I’ll make whenever I need something refreshing (another most likely known tip: mint works wonders on cramps and other stomach discomforts, very soothing) and the bottom three are the epazote which I will make each morning to help the things that I learn stick with me! I’ve also just tried to focus love and gentle energies while making these, imagining my sigil for wakefulness and studies falling into the leaves while I poured the water into the tray, so it also serves as a quick little charged cube as well! And to use them, just pop a cube in a mug and pour hot water over it (I use a Keurig in the dorms so I put the cube into the mug and just let the machine do the rest of the work. Not only does it cool the tea a bit faster, but it also releases the leaves for it to blend! And it makes such a nice green color and the flavor is so nice as if it were fresh from the garden itself!!)
Anyways, I’m experimenting with this still, but it made me so excited and happy to make these! I’ll most likely upload with more trays and designs or whatever else I decide to do (I’m eyeing up some fresh water ideas so it’ll probably be frozen fruit cubes next hehe) but otherwise, I hope you guys have just as much fun doing this as I did!
Happy casting!
- Lupe (A-Flowers-Farewell)
