#18 - In cucina

                          Teapot in the culinary world

The Moroccan tea recipe

I was inspired by the previous blogs of  2014 and I thought an authentic way to connect the teapot to the culinary  world  would be to present  the recipe of the Moroccan tea. The typical Moroccan  tea serving  is  made  with  a (Berrad) Moroccan teapot, an ornate tray, and tea glasses  and one important step within the preparation method is that Moroccan teapots should be placed directly over the fire.

• Add the green tea in you Berrad (Moroccan teapot)
• Boil the water
• Add  ¼ cup of the boiled water to tea to clean it and throw the dark water away
• Fill the Berrad with the boiled water.
• Lower the heat and  boil off the tea 
• After turning off the heat, add fresh mint and sugar  and leave it for 3 minutes .
• Poor up the tea in glasses.

An interesting culinary book: ''The Culinary tea, more than 150 recipes''

Always talking about recipes, when browsing the internet I found  a culinary book that exposes around 150 popular recipes with all the ingredients and tips on how to prepare different types of tea.

link1:The source of the picture and the recipe

link2: Cynthia Gold and Lise Stern, ''Culinary tea, more than 150 recipes'' Uk, Hachette,UK,2010.

#23 - La cosa nella Letteratura

                            The shadow of a  Spout

The Author: Amanda Cooper

Edition: Penguin, 2015

Number of pages: 304 

''Rose Fremont should have been listening to the speech, but instead she was examining her treasure. It was homely thing, the metal teapot, battered and beaten like a raggedy man who has been buffeted about by the elements and fallen on hand times. But like that raggedy man, it had a paste, a purpose and meaning. She turned it over and over in her hands, examining the patina, caressing the dent on its round belly and hugging it to her. There was something about the size of it and the intricacy of the decoration that hinted at a noble history.'' Passage taken from Chapter 1.

''I bought it from an antiques dealer in Ithica. He thought it was chinese, but my granddaughter doesn't believe it was not a teapot at all,but a Buddhist holy water vessel''.

 Rose had decided that she would have a teapot ''expert'' evaluate it but now she thought she might not know anything more when Zunia was done than she had begun.

''One thing I do know is, it is old-silver or copper, we think.''

Zunia turned it over and over squinted over at Rose, then picked up her jewelers  loupe, examining the bottom closely. She then made a noise between the teeth.''Hah! Not an antique at all. The hallmarks are fake even the patina is fake. It is a cheap repro made in Hong Kong''. Passage taken from chapter 1

Link1:The book