{"id":1504,"date":"2020-03-07T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2020-03-07T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:03:06","slug":"a-guide-to-the-perfect-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/2020\/03\/07\/a-guide-to-the-perfect-cup-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to the Perfect Cup of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guide to a perfect cup of tea<\/p>\n

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  1. The most important aspect of this is to wake up. You must not be sleeping when making your cup of tea, instead you need to rouse yourself from your bed and pull your tired body out from beneath the blankets that held you close as you mourned last night. You must get up, you must yawn and stretch, and you must focus yourself on the task at hand.<\/li>\n
  2. Next, walk down the stairs from your loft, avoid the items in your path and blink a few times to ensure your vision clears. You have not tripped or fallen in your new home, and today is not the day for it. You have tea to make.<\/li>\n
  3. Reach the grey flooring you laid by hand, feel it beneath your toes, and glance around for the bodies of bugs that sneak in whenever possible. Find one, a twitching fly, and clean it up. Tea is best had without unwanted guests.<\/li>\n
  4. Reach your kitchen and grasp your kettle firmly in one hand. Lift it, feel the weight of what is left. Understand it is better to start fresh each day, but sometimes the remains of yesterday still lingers in the pot. It is best to dump it out, fill with new vibrancy, but today you simply top the water off. Sometimes a taste of the past reminds you of what you must do in the present.<\/li>\n
  5. Close the kettle\u2019s lid and set it upon your stove. Start the heat and get your dreary self some breakfast. Good tea takes time, and you know this. So it is best to eat now and wait for the water to heat in the meantime.<\/li>\n
  6. Check the thermometer a few minutes later, see what the temperature is at. Make sure to know what type of tea you\u2019re making\u2014is it herbal? Pour at eighty degrees Celsius. Is it black? Try eighty-five. But who are we fooling? You often wake to the strong bite of black tea in the morning, and so you wait until the red arm reaches eighty-five, you place your tea bag in a cup, and you pour.<\/li>\n
  7. With your black tea brewing and filling the house with the smells of morning, take your seat on your handmade couch, relax beneath the blankets. The day will begin soon, but for now, you will wait for three minutes\u2014maybe four\u2014and then take your tea bag out. It is good to do this, as you are not fond of bitter tea, and the longer the bag soaks, the stronger that taste becomes. It is better to start the morning with uplifting spirits, not with the snapping flavor that reminds you of last night\u2019s mourning.<\/li>\n
  8. It is time, and thus you take the bag out. You set it carefully on your select tea tray, and wait a few more moments for it to cool. You have burnt your tongue too many times, and thus your eagerness has dulled to a cautious excitement. You have had this tea before, surely, but the morning still brings with it the potential of noticing something new within its profiles. You take the cup in your hand and you rest it against your chest, let the steam warm your face. It is good to rest here, smell the drink, cherish this moment before the plunge. It is good to let the steam relax your muscles, let your eyes droop, and think not of what yesterday held or what today might yet bring. No, it is better to cherish this time you have with your cup of tea. It is better to lift it to your lips.<\/li>\n
  9. And drink.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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