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Tea for a Large Party

To make what tea-drinkers call a real good cup of tea take nearly a teaspoonful of green tea for each cup, or 4 teaspoonfuls to 5 cups of water, the leaves absorbing 1 cup. But then there is a second drawing that brings this out.

Four ounces of tea contain 28 teaspoonfuls or 2 cupfuls, rounded np. Using mixed tea, and allowing time to draw to draw 2 cupfuls of tea is sufficient to put into 40 cups of water, or a quarter-pound of tea to 2 1/2 gallons of water, which is the same thing in other words.

The best way to make tea for a number is to have the water boiling in an urn and put the tea in a box made of perforated tin and drop it into the water, which must then be stopped from boiling.