The British are considered to be the leader in the Teeverbrauch, they are superseded by the East Frisians. But like a typical East Frisian tea ritual look like? And as Germans are drinking your tea?
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Time for a Cup of tea!
The East Frisians are the world Champions in tea drinking
With a modest annual tea consumption of 30 litres per capita Germany lands on the 84. Place on the list of teetrink countries. Nevertheless, the champion of the world in tea drinking are Germans: the East Frisians. You slurp per capita legendary 300 litres – 100 litres more than the British.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
The East Frisian tea culture
The tea culture of the East has developed over a long period of time. No wonder, because the hot drink to comfort the faint-hearted to rough days on the North sea. The strong black brew, mainly Assam – is boiled in a pot and China cups served. Sugar, there, “fabu”, as well as the cream, should not be missing. But attention: is not permitted to Stir!
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Tea and waffles instead of coffee and cake?
The custom is widespread, and on Sundays for coffee and cake to chat and sit. However, since tea is the leading beverage, is disputed, this ceremony in many places, rather with tea. In East Friesland, where the tea drinking is of great significance, frequently in combination with waffles – it is almost considered rude to drink less than three cups.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Safe: tea samples
The Hamburg-based German tea Association holds annual tea samples to check the quality of the goods and ensure that the information on the labels are correct. Anyone who does not belong to the Association, you can book for a private Tea tasting in the Bünting tea Museum in Leer.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Loose tea or tea bags?
The triumph of tea in the world is unbroken. The consumer reached in 2016, again, maximum values, and also in Germany, where 19,220 thousand tons of tea were sold. According to the German tea Association, three out of four German black in preference to green tea, while 60 percent of the tea drinkers loose tea over tea bags.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Tea with milk
While the British enjoy their tea with milk, preferably with your typical pastry “Scones”, and reject it the most German, your tea-milk to be enclosed. You drink it, prefer black, with sugar or with lemon.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Herbal teas, fruit teas, and ginger tea
While the popularly referred to all sorts of drinks lightly as a tea, insists the German tea Association to the fact that only a drink made from black or green tea leaves, may be referred to as such. Homeopathic Herbal preparations are not included.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Herbal teas in large quantities
A Cure! In the supermarkets all kinds of herbal teas are touted as a remedy for aches and pains. In whose names the imagination has no limits. Some of the objectives to the ingredients, such as Cinnamon or sage tea. Others include the, the tea should help, as Verdauungstee, Good-mood-tea, Morgenmuffeltee, Entgiftungstee or potion.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
The East Frisians are the world Champions in tea drinking
With a modest annual tea consumption of 30 litres per capita Germany lands on the 84. Place on the list of teetrink countries. Nevertheless, the champion of the world in tea drinking are Germans: the East Frisians. You slurp per capita legendary 300 litres – 100 litres more than the British.
-
Time for a Cup of tea!
The East Frisian tea culture
The tea culture of the East has developed over a long period of time. No wonder, because the hot drink to comfort the faint-hearted to rough days on the North sea. The strong black brew, mainly Assam – is boiled in a pot and China cups served. Sugar, there, “fabu”, as well as the cream, should not be missing. But attention: is not permitted to Stir!
-
Time for a Cup of tea!
Tea and waffles instead of coffee and cake?
The custom is widespread, and on Sundays for coffee and cake to chat and sit. However, since tea is the leading beverage, is disputed, this ceremony in many places, rather with tea. In East Friesland, where the tea drinking is of great significance, frequently in combination with waffles – it is almost considered rude to drink less than three cups.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Safe: tea samples
The Hamburg-based German tea Association holds annual tea samples to check the quality of the goods and ensure that the information on the labels are correct. Anyone who does not belong to the Association, you can book for a private Tea tasting in the Bünting tea Museum in Leer.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Loose tea or tea bags?
The triumph of tea in the world is unbroken. The consumer reached in 2016, again, maximum values, and also in Germany, where 19,220 thousand tons of tea were sold. According to the German tea Association, three out of four German black in preference to green tea, while 60 percent of the tea drinkers loose tea over tea bags.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Tea with milk
While the British enjoy their tea with milk, preferably with your typical pastry “Scones”, and reject it the most German, your tea-milk to be enclosed. You drink it, prefer black, with sugar or with lemon.
-
Time for a Cup of tea!
Herbal teas, fruit teas, and ginger tea
While the popularly referred to all sorts of drinks lightly as a tea, insists the German tea Association to the fact that only a drink made from black or green tea leaves, may be referred to as such. Homeopathic Herbal preparations are not included.
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Time for a Cup of tea!
Herbal teas in large quantities
A Cure! In the supermarkets all kinds of herbal teas are touted as a remedy for aches and pains. In whose names the imagination has no limits. Some of the objectives to the ingredients, such as Cinnamon or sage tea. Others include the, the tea should help, as Verdauungstee, Good-mood-tea, Morgenmuffeltee, Entgiftungstee or potion.
Germany is abroad known primarily for Riesling, beer, and maybe even his coffee-and-cake Tradition. But according to the German tea Association, a German Region surpasses all others in the world in tea consumption per capita: East Frisia.
In the rainy North-West Germany, 300 litres will be drunk in the year, so that the East Frisians are just ahead of Kuwait and Ireland. Outside of East Frisia hardly anyone knows, however, the Teerituale this area. Not even in their own country, because the Rest of Germany, only one-tenth of the amount of tea consumed compared with the East Frisians, and preferably coffee.
Strong black blend
During a visit to the sparsely populated area, you will soon realize why tea is the ideal way to keep a stiff breeze and some warmth. This tea used to be for the resident fishermen and farmers, the most cost-effective alternative to exotic coffee, in the 19th century. Century resulted in the Boom of coffee houses.
For a nice Cup of tea, it needs the right mix: East Frisian tea is an intense black tea, especially from Assam leaves, with a hint of Ceylon. What makes its taste so special, is the soft water of the Region. Even if you are not local, you can get a little bit of North German tea coziness of home.
The right Pour
The tea is often served in a porcelain jug, which is held by tea lights warm. In order to ensure that the tea is hot enough, he filled in small porcelain cups, on the bottom of the rock candy is ready. To finally fat cream – Stir, however, is strictly prohibited. The cream cloud, which winds its way back to the surface of the tea, is another part of the East Frisian tea culture.
Although East Frisia is only a small part of Germany, has conquered the “East Frisian blend” the German supermarket shelves, and competes with the herbal blends, which are still the most popular. Even if it is not as well known as the Japanese tea ceremony or the tea-leaves-reading in Turkey, the East Frisian tea culture is an important part of German cuisine.
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Something to the tea? Appetizing suggestions there are in this gallery:
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Delicious cake with a funny nameBee sting
From a “Bee sting” should not be put off! This creamy dream with caramelized almonds, it tastes all yummy mouths, and is not nearly as dangerous as he sounds. According to the legend, threw two young bakers in the 15. A century of hostile invaders with the hives, and saved their city. To celebrate the victory, baked you this cake.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameCold Dog
The “Cold dog”, and “Cold snout”, is popular with children, birth days of great popularity. Finally, he can bark or bite. The pie, consisting of individual layers of butter cookies and a mixture of chocolate, sugar and coconut oil, not baked, but raw kept in the fridge.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameDanube wave
The opportunity to ride on a Danube river wave, you should not miss! Can’t drown you. A layer of vanilla and chocolate cake is soaked in sour cherries from the jar, then a layer of butter cream and a chocolate topping on it. During the baking process the cherries sink to the bottom and it creates a kind of wave – the Name is based.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameBundt cake
The Bundt Cake is not baked by Google. He, therefore, comes in many variations: In the Viennese coffee houses, it is served with rose water and almonds. In Central Europe it can also serve as a wedding cake, with seasonal fruit and flower decorated. His Name is said to derive from the middle high German and means “whole hood”.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameZwetschgendatschi
Actually, it is quite simple: A cake base is topped with plum slices. The funny-sounding Name has its origin in southern Bavaria: plums are called Prunes, and “cake” to go back to a very old German word, which referred to the Evidence of the cake with plums. The end result is a tongue-Twister – of the melts on the tongue.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameMr cake
This cake could be the bigger brother of the bee sting. The Name seems to be a noble, almost Royal. The Mr cake is made up of many, with a wine cream successive compressed layers and a chocolate topping. It tastes by the way, also ladies!
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Delicious cake with a funny namePrince Regent cake
The Prince Regent’s cake, in turn, could be the Royal version of the Mr cake. Who wants to bake this Bavarian delicacy, you need plenty of time. The whole is made up of seven thin layers, which are held of chocolate butter cream and chocolate-topped. If you eat a piece of the Prince Regent’s cake, you feel actually like a Prince or a Princess!
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Delicious cake with a funny nameKing cake
Gentlemen, princes and kings always seem to be in the minds of German bakers. Maybe the back should be were so good that they are also kings taste. In a king’s cake with raisins – sometimes almonds and lemon aroma Rumrosinen -. This one was topped with candied fruit, often a king cake is dusted with powdered sugar.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameFrankfurter Kranz
A Frankfurter Kranz has the shape of a wreath, as the Name suggests. It consists of butter cream layers. Caramelized little walnut pieces and roasted almonds give the Frankfurter Kranz its typical taste. Supposedly the cake during the war to have been topped, as there was hardly any Butter, with a Paste made of sugar and egg yolks.
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Delicious cake with a funny nameGingerbread
In Germany everything what “cake” is actually a cake. The Christmas season is so very popular gingerbread is probably more of a big cookie. Gingerbread cookies are traditionally spiced with ginger, cloves and Cardamom. In the Winter, they are available at Christmas markets. A variant in the shape of a heart, the Munich Oktoberfest and other festivals.