In order to make good tea you must use water that is really boiling hard.

First heat your tea-pot by pouring some hot water into it.

Empty it and put in your tea, 1 teaspoonful for each cup.

If you want to make four cups of tea, pour 1 cup of boiling water into the pot onto your tea and let it stand for 3 minutes. Then add the other 3 cups of boiling water and let it stand for 1 minute.

Serve at once with sugar and cream, or sugar and slices of lemon.

Never let tea stand on the tea grounds. If you are not ready to drink the tea when it is done, pour it into another pot or pitcher through a strainer.

You can make very good tea by using a tea-ball. Put your tea into the tea-ball and put the tea-ball into the individual cups; pour the boiling water over and when the tea is strong enough remove the tea-ball. This has the advantage of never letting the tea stand on the leaves or grounds.

If you want to make a great quantity of tea, for a reception or party, a very good thing to do is to make a number of little cheese-cloth bags and fill them with tea. These can be put into your tea-pot and when the tea is strong enough can be removed, in that way keeping the tea fresh during a long period of time.

It is also possible to make a very thick tea syrup, by pouring a small quantity of boiling water over a large quantity of tea, and after it has stood for 3 minutes pouring it off into a tea-pot. This will keep for a day and can be diluted with hot water whenever a cup of tea is wanted. Put a small quantity in the cup, and pour as much hot water over it as is needed. This water does not need to be boiling, only hot, as the tea itself was made with boiling water.