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Making Turkish black tea like the Turks
1.       janissary
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 05 Mar 2006 Sun 06:54 pm

To make the Turkish black tea like the Turks do you will need two kettles of different sizes: a big and a small one. The big kettle must be made of metal and the small one can be made of metal or ceramic.

First fill with water the big kettle and place it at the stove. Then put the small kettle above the big kettle. At the small kettle put black tea (the measure of black tea is a dessert spoon for each person). Light the stove. While the water is boiling in the big kettle the second small kettle will also be warmed. Please notice that the small kettle contains only black tea and it does not contain water.
After the water boiled, you should put this water on the small kettle where there you have the black tea. (The measure of the water is relative to the number of persons who will drink the tea. For example, if just two people wants to drink tea you should add a little bit of water, if there are more people you must put more water).

Now you must wait 15 minutes more or less, this is necessary so that the tea can cook. You will see that after 15 minutes the tea stays in the bottom of the kettle, this means that the tea can be served.

In Turkey black tea is generally not drink in mugs but in special glass cups as a Turkish tradition.
There are two types of tea to be served: the strong tea "Koyu cay " and the light tea "acik cay". When serving the strong black tea you must fill two thirds of the mug with tea of the second kettle and add the boiling water to fill the rest of the mug. As the tea is strong the colour of this tea is dark brown. When serving the light black tea you must fill one third of the mug with tea of the second kettle and add the boiling water to fill rest of the mug. As the tea is light the colour is light brown. Add sugar, as you like.

In Turkey we would say: "Afiyet Olsun" that means "Good Appetite" or "Enjoy"!

I hope it will help you to prepare a good tea

2.       jmar12
68 posts
 05 Mar 2006 Sun 07:01 pm

Sounds wonderful, Janissary. Thank you for sharing that. Have you made it this way?

3.       janissary
0 posts
 05 Mar 2006 Sun 07:05 pm

every day

4.       jmar12
68 posts
 05 Mar 2006 Sun 07:36 pm

Nice! I think I'll try it.

5.       Rocketsfan28
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 21 Apr 2006 Fri 02:14 pm

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6.       oceanmavi
997 posts
 21 Apr 2006 Fri 05:15 pm

thanks janissary that was very interesting i can help yengem now when she makes the tea rather than just watching

7.       Deli_kizin
6376 posts
 22 Apr 2006 Sat 01:28 pm

I bought such a tea-pot in Türkiye I loved it.. but i prefer to drink my tea strong, so i don't actually use the water in the 'under-kettle'
But it makes me run out of tea very fast, so Kadir decided to put loads of tea in the upper thingy to make it nice and strong enough to pour water with it

8.       damla
129 posts
 22 Apr 2006 Sat 04:06 pm

In Turkey without a tea you can not do your breakfast.Every single day we do the tea in this way twice or three times,even more sometimes.

9.       Kadir37
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 22 Apr 2006 Sat 04:18 pm

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