Wow! My heartfelt condolences! Was this during the War years or during
the depression? Or were your family just *very* thrifty?

Ye gods, I can't imagine multiple cups of tea out of a Lipton teabag...one's
bad enough..: P

Melinda

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"Serendip" > wrote in message
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> On 2/21/2005 2:25 PM, Ole Kvaal wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Are there any general rules for which teas may benefit (or tolerate)
>> resteeping, and which do not?
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>> ole k
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> I can't get myself to even consider this. Growing up, we had teabags -
> Tetley, Lipton, whatever. How ever many people were having tea - that's
> how many cups you got out of that one teabag. The teabag was put into a
> little covered glass canister, and into the refrigerator, where it would
> stay until it was used again and again. When people would no longer
> consider using it for drinking tea, my grandmother would save it, in
> case she needed to "tea" a stained tablecloth, napkin, etc. Even as a
> child, I would refuse tea unless I was given a new teabag; happy to
> share with everyone, but I wanted a new tea bag! I don't think I could
> ever get past this enough to have multiple infusions!
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