"The women said they preferred their tea neat..."
"Tea was a luxury seldom indulged in, for it cost five shillings a pound. But country people then had not acquired the taste for tea; they preferred home-brewed."
"They made a good deal of camomile [sic] tea, which they drank freely to ward off colds, to soothe the nerves, and as a general tonic."
"Peppermint tea was made rather as a luxury than a medicine; it was brought out on special occasions and drunk from wine-glasses..."
Lark Rise by Flora Thompson (1945)
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