BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Tea Processing, Year 3000, Pyrazine
10 Apr 2013
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United arab emirates (6kg tea per person per year 3000 cups of tea per person per year!! Tibet drink tea with butter and yak milk. Russia add lemon to tea, or a dollop of strawberry jam. Morocco add sage, basil, or mint. Iran infuse tea with rose petals: all use the youngest leaves. Photo on right of slide (2 pics of leaves) shows which leaves we use: youngest have more aroma. Take cuttings of stems to make new plant. Prune the shrubs back, which forces man branches to grow, and grow in a v-shape: gives pickers more branches to pick from, easier to harvest (flat top) Plants on elevated slopes, higher altitudes, offer more aromatic teas. Organized in rows a couple of feet apart cause all harvesting is done by hand. Harvesters known as pluckers , learn precisely when to pick leaves. 3000 flushes to produce 1 lb of unprocessed tea.
