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Alex Chaihorsky
 
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People use many of these, which are more like preserves than jams.
Real tea-drinkers wouldn't do that to a good tea. However there is one
popular anti-cold remedy - raspberry preserve with very hot tea right before
bed that makes you sweat hard while you sleep and really helps to get rid of
cold and wake up and go build socialist paradise like nothing happened.

There are two ways to drink tea with sugar Russian style - just adding any
type sugar to your tea and what we call "wprikusku" - sugar limp tea
drinking (biting off a small piece of sugar and sip tea through it). The
latter is considered to be lower class but is actually enjoyable when sweet
things are in shortage (third month in Siberian taiga). But again - the real
classic Russian tea is strong Ceylon with or without lemon and no sugar, but
many sweet baked things - different cakes and pies (especially pies with
wild berries, like a blueberry, blackberry, black and red currants, etc.).
Believe me a blueberry pie with wild blueberry is nothing like the ones you
find at your local supermarket. My favorite - wild cranberry (also very
different from industrial variety here - it is soft and very, very juicy)
and lingonberry (you can find that at your local IKEA store) - it has very
complicated taste with sour and bitter undertones, very good in pies with
tea. OK, OK, I an salivating drooling and need to grab a can of lingonberry
jam... take care!

Sasha.


"Melinda" > wrote in message
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> Sasha, tell me about Russians sometimes adding jam to sweeten their tea
> with, I thought I read this somewhere. What kind of jam do they use? Is
> there a class distinction between using a sugar lump/cube and using jam?
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> Melinda
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> "Alex Chaihorsky" > wrote in message
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>> Russians drink tea from teacups and also thin tea glasses with a metal
>> holder, called "podstakannik" - or glass-holder.You can find them here at
>> "Sovetskoj Collection" catalog and web site.
>> http://secure.sovietski.com/cgi-bin/...ct/View/142211
>> The best are made of fine silver. The ones above are not and are
>> ridiculously expensive.
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>> If you do some serach on this forum you will find several threads on
>> Russian tea drinking.
>> Normally Russians drink Ceylon and Indian black teas. Nowadays Chinese
>> and Japanese teas are getting lots of attention. Large cities have many
>> sophisticated teaclubs with gong-fu, etc., as my friends who live there
>> tell me.
>> Traditionally strong black tea with sugar and lemon made with samovar was
>> "the" Russian tea.
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>> Sasha.
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>> "Marten Nilsson" > wrote in message
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>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I've heard that in Russia it's tradition to drink tea from some sort of
>>> glass.
>>> Does anyone know what these look like?
>>>
>>> What kind of tea does people drink in Russia? Are there any other
>>> traditions
>>> connected with it?
>>>
>>> /Marten

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