This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...various kinds of tea known to commerce are classed, according to the size of their grains, as pearl teas and gunpowder teas, the former having larger grains than the latter. They are divided again according to color into green teas and black teas. Green teas have a bitter and pungent taste and a strong odor, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...various kinds of tea known to commerce are classed, according to the size of their grains, as pearl teas and gunpowder teas, the former having larger grains than the latter. They are divided again according to color into green teas and black teas. Green teas have a bitter and pungent taste and a strong odor, excite the nerves and prevent sleep. Black teas do not have this property in so pronounced a degree, being less stimulating, weaker, and not so strongly scented. The preparation of tea calls for the same care as that of coffee: it should not be boiled, as that would dissipate the odor and take away the crowning excellence of the beverage. "With us tea is hardly more than a medicine used to alleviate certain stomach troubles; but in many countries besides China it is a daily drink, appearing on the table several times in the twenty-four hours. In England, the European country most addicted to this drink, the annual consumption amounts to twenty-five million kilograms." CHAPTER XXXV I CHOCOLATE N the hottest countries of the two Americas, notably in Mexico, the Antilles, and Guiana, there is cultivated a tree of about the size of our cherrytree, called the cacao or chocolate tree.' "What a queer name that is--cacao!" Claire exclaimed; "not a bit like any of our fruit-trees." "This queer name has come down to us from the primitive inhabitants of Mexico, a people who tattooed their red skin with horrible designs and wore their hair standing up in a menacing tuft adorned with hawks'feathers. Their language was composed of harsh guttural sounds which to our delicate ears would seem more like the croaking of frogs than the speech of human beings. You have a sample in the name of the tree I have just mentioned, the...
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