Cambric Tea Wikipedia

My granddaddy used to make this for me at bedtime when i was a little girl.

Cambric tea wikipedia. Iced tea is a cooling drink based on wordnet 3 0 farlex clipart collection. 2003 2012 princeton university farlex inc. It is also described as hot water with a little milk or cream and sugar without any tea at all. Cambric was originally a kind of fine white plain weave linen cloth made at or near cambrai.

By beverley williams beverley1991 10. The word is attested since 1530. A drink for children made of hot water milk sugar and usually a small amount of tea. After water it is the most widely consumed drink in the world.

Earliest reference i could find is from 1882 s ting a ling but usage persists to the present mostly in genre period fiction. Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of the camellia sinensis an evergreen shrub native to east asia. So called because it is thin and white like cambric. Cambric tea is an american term to describe a hot drink made with milk water sugar and a dash of tea.

Bubble tea also known as pearl milk tea or boba milk tea a taiwanese tea based drink invented in taichung in the 1980s cambric tea a sweetened hot milk beverage often made with a small amount of tea hong kong style milk tea black tea sweetened with evaporated milk originating from the days of british colonial rule in hong kong. 69 125 59 43 04 22 13 december 2013 utc. The word comes from kameryk or kamerijk the flemish name of cambrai which became part of france in 1677. Cambric tea is a children s tea made primarily from sugar hot water heated milk or cream and perhaps a dash or two of strongly brewed tea.

It is a synonym of the french word batiste itself attested since 1590. There are many different types of tea. Cambric tea a beverage for children containing hot water and milk and sugar and a small amount of tea tea a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water. It is sometimes made with a dash of weak tea but he never added the tea.

Cambric tea definition is a hot drink of water milk sugar and often a small amount of tea. The name is taken from a lightweight fabric called cambric which is white and thin just like the tea. Cambric tea sometimes called nursery tea was hot water and milk was an american slang term referring to a drink of hot water milk and a dash of tea sometimes sweetened.