Sweet Tea (was:Need FanFic Help - Deep South)

[Trina]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Boggess Ramon <> 
> Class break: a plantation owner's iced tea will probably *not* 
> already be sweetened.  This is one of the fast ways of telling New 
> Money from Old Blood in the South.  There will be a china sugar 
bowl on the tray with a silver sugar spoon in it, and the sugar spoon 
will match the iced tea spoons.  (If the tea were already sweetened, 
you  wouldn't get to use your great-grandmother's sugar spoon.)



This may be true, but it is much easier to sweeten the tea when it is 
still warm (right after it steeps) because the sugar dissolves and 
you can get it to that "ropy" consistency.  "Ropy" is a family term, 
btw, for very sweet tea. ;^)

Trina