Miss sofia
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Very well put Sir.
Miss Sis said:It is true there is a comforting familiarity to 'brewing up' and sitting down for a good old chat and biccie, no matter what has happened.
Miss sofia said:Actually i just gave the condensed milk cuppa a whirl. I boiled some water in an enamel boiler on the stove, added the tea leaves, (some Sainsburys own brand), boiled it up for a few minutes, until the tea looked nice and strong, strained and served with the condensed milk in an enamel cup.
Results = If that was all that was available for a brew up, then actually it was more than adequate, (although my teeth were screaming and i could hear my dentists hands rubbing his hands together somewhere in the distance)! Aside from that, although too sweet and milky for my tastes, it would have been more than welcome i would have thought, to get a steaming hot cup of that given to you with a nice Woodbine to help wash it down with!
Baggers said:Miss Sofia, You might try making your tea with evaporated milk instead of condensed. It's not near as thick and sweet as the condensed variety, and is much closer to what was actually used by soldiers in the field as tinned evaporated milk was supplied to them as part of their daily rations.
/|\ said:I bought a couple of the white tin cups from WPG. I was so busy last weekend, I couldn't settle down for a nice cuppa (well, pot) of tea. Weekdays are impossible. So I'll use one this weekend. Anyway...
Were these cups made in a larger size? Like about twice as large? There's a spot where buskers play between a couple flights of escalators going down to the bus station. I often see one guy in particular who plays guitar and sells bamboo flutes he makes. (There seems to be some sort of rotation, as there is only one busker at a time at the spot.) His battered tips cup was a double-sized version of the white tin cup. The metal was bent into a little spout at the front, indicating it was not a 'cup' but a small serving vessel. He said he'd got it from his grandmother, but I didn't have time to ask where she was from. He looked in his 40s, so his grandmother was probably of an age where she could have bought the cup/pitcher/dispenser during the war years. It's too big for a drinking cup, and it was obviously designed for pouring. It seems too large for a creamer, since I usually think of creamers as being smaller than the cups. It seems to small for a 'teapot', since it would only fill about two of the drinking cups.
So was this thing part of a set of enamelware that included the tin cups? Or is it something that was just made in that style? And what is its intended use?