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| A Nice Strong Cuppa! |
This meant that “reading the tea leaves “was very popular event – a sort of fortune telling and at ‘Elevenses’ - everything stopped for tea and finished off with reading the tea leaves!
There was, it seemed to me, always someone in the family or a friend of the family, who specialised in this particular art.
The reading the tea leaves ritual involved drinking a cup of tea (obviously) -usually much too strong for me, but I was only a youngster!
I think they drank it so strong, as probably during the war with rationing, milk was not so easily available as today.
There was none of your semi skimmed or skimmed milk in those days, it was either plain milk or milk with a creamy top. And when I was very young, milk was delivered by a horse and cart!
Anyway I am digressing from “reading the tea leaves” – you drank the tea practically to the bottom of the teacup (again no mugs then either) – leaving the tea leaves in a bit of the tea mixture, turned the saucer on top of the teacup to make a lid and then turned it upside down so the teacup was now sitting with rim to the saucer and then turned the teacup around three times on the saucer. Here I am not sure whether it was clockwise or anti clockwise.
Then you turned the teacup back up, it was then put it back on it’s sauce. Then the tea leaf reader would peer into the cup looking at the tea leaves shapes on the inside of the cup and from what they could “see” – (just looked like a bunch of tea leaves stuck inside to me) – would give a reading such as you are coming into money, by saying this shape represented money or another shape said good luck was coming your way. Nothing bad was ever read but I can’t say not being a big tea drinker then, that when I did have a cuppa anything that was forecast ever happened to me, basically it just a bit of harmless fun.
Incidentally my Gran’s everyday teapot wasn’t china but made from enamel with string blanket stitched around the handle, so that when you picked it up it didn’t burn your hand.
When guests came on Sunday, a real silver teapot was used with a matching silver milk jug and sugar bowl – very posh I know!
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