Recipe#9891

Title: Chai 02

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: padma@meaddata.com (Padma Talasila) 
 Subject: Indian Milk Tea 
 Message-ID: <2qnvsk$25h@meaddata.meaddata.com> 
 Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH 
 References: <2qhj42$o25@nkosi.well.com> 
 Date: 10 May 1994 12:49:24 GMT 

It's very simple.
 For one cup tea :
         tea bags        : 2
         water           : 2/3 cups
         milk            : 1/2 cup
         masala          : 1 cardomom or small piece of crushed ginger
          sugar          : 1 teaspoon
         Put tea bags in water and let it boil vigorously for 5 minutes.
         Pour milk and add sugar. Let it boil until the milk rises.
         Add crushed cardomom pods or ginger.
         Serve hot.
         If you use ginger, take it out of tea before drinking.
         You can also use teapowder in which case, you need to filter tea
         as you would do for coffee. 
         For better taste, tea should be boiled for long time. The more you
         boil, the creamy it will be. 
         I find that tea powder is better than tea bags.
         The amount of sugar can be varied with your taste.