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. 1894 Excerpt: ...of his leaf on a small wicker tray for inspection, when the buyer, without a moment's hesitation, fixes the price and writes it on a slip of paper, which is handed to the seller, who is equally prompt in accepting or rejecting the price offered, and there is no chaffering, time being too precious. If the price is ...
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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. 1894 Excerpt: ...of his leaf on a small wicker tray for inspection, when the buyer, without a moment's hesitation, fixes the price and writes it on a slip of paper, which is handed to the seller, who is equally prompt in accepting or rejecting the price offered, and there is no chaffering, time being too precious. If the price is accepted, the leaf at once is carried into the hong, weighed, and the money paid on the nail. There is always keen competition among the buying hongs, and the growers are thus secured a full market price." After the buying for the day is over, the qualities are sorted out, the leaves are slightly fired, and then packed away as tightly as hay in a stack, in dark stalls, in the interior of the hong, where the tea is left till fermentation commences. It is then put into the hands of the pickers, women and girls, each of whom receive one katty (equal to iflb.) at a time, from which they pick out the brown leaves and stalks. The leaf is then winnowed to throw the dust off. The fresh leaves which are left are gathered together and fired, which is the most important process of all, as the appearance, character, and flavour all depends on the skill and care of the firing. When the charcoal fire is ready, a deep basket is placed above it with a grating in the middle, over which the leaves are thinly spread, and the leaves are in this way rapidly dried; then they undergo a final rolling. When the whole of the leaf of one quality has been treated in this way, they are spread out again in thin trays in heated chambers for a few minutes to drive off any remaining moisture, and turned over until perfectly dry and uniformly dark. Nothing now remains but to pack them in the familiar lead-lined boxes and put them on the market as rapidly as possible. The proce...
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Very Good-Used in Missing jacket. Hardcover no jacket Tea and Tea Blending 4th edition by a Member of the Firm of Lewis & Co. Crutched Friars, London. Fourth Edition London Eden Fisher & Co. 1894 small hardcover 8vo 166 pages tight and unmarked bookseller sticker front pastedown light tan and shelfsoil light wear to cover cloth boards no jacket Please email for photos.
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