"Haydi, en güzel porselen fincanlarınızı, en kaliteli çay ve kahvelerinizi (isterseniz sıcak çikolatanızı) ve bunların yanına gidecek kek, çörek ve ekmeklerinizi getirin. En kaliteli tereyağınızı da unutmayın. Şık bir sabahlık giymekse size kalmış."
Kitaptaki bu alıntıyla başlamak istemedim. Kitabı okumaya karar verdiyseniz karnınız tok ve yanınızda özellikle de çayınız olmalı. Bu kitapta sadece Jane Austen' ın çay aşkını değil çayın İngiltere'deki tarihini, o dönemde çayın ne kadar önemli bir içecek olduğunu ve bazı kek vb tarifler okuyoruz.
O dönemde o kadar önemli ve pahalı ki çay, hizmetçiler alıp satmasın diye evin hanımı kilit altında tutarmış. (Ülkemiz aklıma geldi. Çayın karaborsa olduğu dönemler) Çay kutularını leydiler tarafından telkari yapıldığı, subayların sırt çantalarında mutlaka çayın bulunduğu, çayın sahtesi yapıldığı, adına şiirler, şarkılar yazıldığı, her derde deva denildiği, uzun yıllar çay hakkında tartışmalar yapıldığı bir dönemi okuyoruz.
Kitapta ayrıca Jane Austen, kız kardeşi Cassandra'ya yazdığı mektuplardan ve yazdığı kitaplarladan çayla ilgili alıntılar mevcut. Aklıma gelenler; Mansfield Park, Aşk ve Gurur, Emma, İkna, Akıl ve Tutku.
Keyif alarak okuduğum bir kitap oldu. Sizde çayınızı demleyin ince belli bardağınızı alın

A delightful little book. Granted, I'm probably not this author's target demographic, but I still enjoyed it. The author did well in discussing social situations where one would encounter tea in Austen's time and the particular habits of the Austen family as described in their personal correspondence.

Great for anyone with an insatiable love of the beverage. History buffs should be forewarned that it also contains recipes.

Read tea-related articles on my website: http://joshuarigsby.com

This is a delightful and very informative book detailing the importance of tea in the lives of Jane Austen and her contemporaries. There are historical facts concerning the rise of tea to the prominence it gained in Austen's era. What makes this book special are the excerpts from Austen's books and letters that provide examples of buying and serving tea and the part it plays in daily life. Lovely sketches accompany the text in this book that is produced on high quality paper. It's a trip back in time to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Tea with Jane Austen is a lovingly told tale of the importance of tea in the life of those who lived in the Regency Era. It is all here: How to make tea, tea and toast for breakfast (the usual breakfast fare for all but the wealthiest households), seeping the tea leaves, tea caddies and miscellaneous utensils, shopping for tea sets, and the different types of teas. In Austen's time, tea was a valuable commodity that was kept under lock and key. In the Austen household, Jane was the keeper of the keys to the tea chest.

For me, the most interesting part of the book was Jane's excursions into London to buy the best tea from Twining's warehouse. This was the most expensive way of buying tea, but there was a reason for buying the best. Tea was regularly adulterated with things you don't want to think about. Dregs were sold out the back door by kitchen maids. After being dried, they were mixed with "leaves, twigs, and sometimes floor sweepings." That's if you were lucky. "The dyes used on adulterated tea were often quite poisonous."

Although the afternoon tea we associate with the British belongs to the Victorian Era, there were rituals aplenty in the Regency Era, and this book shows how important tea was to Jane Austen and her contemporaries.

2.5

Meh. Nice idea but heavy on the dull, light on the charming and absolutely no recipes I would use.

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Merhaba Ceviz'in çaysever müritleri. 2016 basımı bir kitapla geldim. Uzun zamandır kitaplığımda bekliyordu bu ara yeni kitapların yanında eski kitaplarımı da okumayı giderek daha fazla sevmeye başladım çünkü şu anki yayıncılığımızın kalitesiz baskılarının yanında eskiden ne güzel baskılar varmış gerçekten şu kalın sayfaları çevirirken aldığım zevk hiçbir şekilde yok ve okuduğum kitapların çoğunu elden çıkarıp yeni kitaplara yer açarken bu eski kitapların hiçbirini elden çıkarmamaya karar verdim. Çünkü bir daha bu şekilde kaliteli bir baskının iyi bir hamur kağıdın olacağını artık düşünmüyorum. O yüzden ne zaman 4-5 yıl öncesine ait kitapları okusam bir hüzün de içime çökmüyor değil şimdiki karton kapaklar neredeyse hemen hemen eski sayfalar kalınlığında basılıyor. Öff çok dertliyim bu konuda kendi kendimi yiyorum.
Bu kitaba gelecek olursak baskı, içindeki illüstrasyonlar, çeşitli resimler ve sayfa düzeni muhteşem. Gerçekten büyük bir zevkle okudum kitabı okurken çay içmeden duramıyorsunuz tabii ben bu arada siyah çay falan içmiyorum ama bitki çayına dadandım diyebilirim. Austen romanlarında ve regency era zamanlarını konu edinen kitapların çoğunda aslında çay oldukça önemli bir statü meselesiymiş. Günümüzde çay kolay ulaşılabilen evin normal ihtiyacı haline gelmişken o vakitlerde çay demlemek ve misafirlere çay ikram edebilmek bir sosyal statü göstergesiymiş ve herkes bunu yapamıyormuş. Evet aslında bu tarz historical kitapları okurken bu çay olgusuna çok fazla değinmeden geçiliyor. Biz okurlar da o sayfaları normalmişçesine sanki bu yaşadığımız dünyadaki alelade bir şeymiş gibi okuyoruz halbuki dikkat edersek hep zengin ailelerde çay saati ve çay partileri oluyor. 1700 lerde kraliçe Anne çay'ı kahvaltıya eklemiş yoksa kahvaltıda bira filan içiliyormuş. Kahvaltı olgusuna da değiniliyor. Kitap karakterleri ile pekiştiriliyor. Çayın o zamanlarda kaçakçılığa ve sahte çaylara sevkedecek kadar pahalı olduğu, ev hizmetçilerinin içilen çayları tekrar kurutup satmaları, ağaç yapraklarının kurutulup siyaha boyanıp kanserojen şekilde satılması gibi ilginç bilgiler var. Aynı zamanda o vakitler londrada ve çeşitli kasabalarda çay ikram edilen yerleri gezermiş gibi okuyorsunuz. O dönemde bir şapkacı, şapkanızı seçerken size çay ikram edebiliyor. Dönemin çay devi @twiningsuk kardeşlerden de bahsediliyor. Aralarda o dönemlerde yapılan yemek ve aperatiflerin tarifine yer verilmiş bu oldukça hoş olsa da baya yağ veya şeker içeren tarifler.
Regency era zamanlarını okumaktan, jane austen kitaplarını seven, çayı seven, döneme ve tarihe meraklı kişilere tavsiye ederim.

I learned a few things about tea and customs from the Austen era. I'll be buying more Twinings brand teas in future!

Lots of excerpts from letters from Jane to her sister and quotes from her novels. Tea figured prominently in Jane Austen's life. Lots of history and recipes for food served with tea as well as for brewing the perfect cup of tea. I was shocked at how difficult it was to make cakes in the 1800's without electricity, baking pwder/soda, etc. Who needs a gym when you could just make pound cake which required 1-2 hours of hand mixing!

If you are a fan of tea and Jane Austen as I am this is a sweet book that covers both.
The author provides an interesting history of tea in England from smuggling, taxation, tea consumption differences based on class, use in the military, to tea traditions in Jane Austen's time. Within the chapters are recipes that could have been enjoyed by Austen and her family. Most are not something I am eager to make though Rout Cakes look tasty and worth a try.
The book is also filled with Jane Austen quotes from her books and letters which makes one want to reread them all. Lastly there is a chapter on brewing tea that I found quite interesting and helpful.

In Regency era England, the popularity and social importance of tea-drinking is exemplified by Jane Austen’s characters no less than fifty-eight times in her six major novels. The observant reader will recognize pivotal events transpire around sitting down and taking tea: In Emma, Miss Bates declines coffee “No coffee, I thank you, for me-never take coffee. A little tea if you please,” in Northanger Abbey impressionable Catherine Moreland drinks tea with the Tilney’s and is awed by the “elegance of the breakfast set,” and in Pride and Prejudice, the toady Mr. Collins boasts of the supreme honor that his esteemed patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh has bestowed on Elizabeth Bennet in being asked to tea at her grand residence of Rosings Park. We also know from Jane Austen’s letters that she was a tea-lover too. “We began our China Tea three days ago, & I find it very good.” Jane Austen, in a letter to her sister, Cassandra, 31 May 1811

Popularized in the early 1700’s by Charles II’s wife Queen Catherine, a century later tea drinking had become a passionate ritual for the gentry and aristocracy in England. Tea at any meal was de rigueur, in fact, a whole meal was named after it. Tea-time is traditionally a light late afternoon meal about 4:00 pm created to tide one over until supper, which in Town, could be very late into the evening. Tea with Jane Austen primarily delves into the social history of tea and its role in Jane Austen’s life and her writing. It also offers a delectable array of recipes listed with traditional Regency era ingredients and preparation along with a conversion for the modern cook. Readers may find, like me, that with so much talk of food that one wants to dash out to the kitchen and commence to make the perfect cup of tea as described on page 114, and throw oneself into baking the plum cake from page 31. Ha!

What I found most enjoyable about this slim volume was the frequent mention of events in Austen’s life or incidents by her characters in the novels that illustrate the importance of tea as a very British ritual. Quotes are used liberally throughout adding to the connection.

“Perhaps you should like some tea, as soon as it can be got.” They both declared that they should prefer it to anything. Mrs. Price to Fanny and William in Mansfield Park.

Broken down into interesting chapters: Tea in the Morning; Tea Shopping; Tea Away from Home; Tea and Health and Tea in the Evening, this book is packed with historical information conveniently indexed in the back and features a select bibliography for further reading. The friendly conversational style of the author is as welcome and soothing as her topic.

Laurel Ann, Austenprose

This book was very interesting and informative, a portrayal of Jane Austen, how she acquired her tea, which teas she preferred to drink, and what she served with her tea, including some recipes, as well as a history of tea, the availability of different types of tea in Jane Austen's time, and the evolution of tea in general. I particularly enjoyed reading the excerpts from Austen's novels and letters. This is a great book for both tea lovers and Jane Austen fans. I highly recommend it!

As a tea lover, I enjoyed this book all about my favorite beverage, tea. I received this book as a gift and finished it in a mere 2 short sittings. If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'd really love this book. I've read some of Jane's books but can't say that I'm a fan or expert about her books. So, let's stick with the tea. Back in the 1700s tea was only for the wealthy classes in Britain. It was smuggled and sold on the black market, etc. Servants were not permitted to make the tea or get near it as it was generally kept under lock and key in a special cupboard.

As I sip my jasmine phoenix pearls tea now, I'm thankful I didn't live back in England in those times. The book contains recipes for biscuits, rolls, and some interesting drinks so it's a quick and fun read.