HOP TEA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2125, 15 November 1890, Page 4

HOP TEA.

TheUtest lorm of adulteration is bops in tea, This, we think, will beunpleassnt news to the people living in the less settled districts and iD the bosh of Australia, To them tea is: one of the BPCPBB»rieB of lifp, without which no worker on a station could exist. The quality of the lea in many instances served nut to the servants of squatters is decidedly inferior, and it may be believed that adaltprated with hops it will be niide si ill worse. But apart from the mixed feelings everywhere called up by this newest ingredient in our morning beverage, it is Bmusine to read " that some of the Kent farruprs luve made up their minds that hops, which make guch capital beer, will make equally excellent lea." tiops do undoubtedly mske good beer, but that is do reason why the Kentish plant should be forced down our throats as tea pure and simple. Indeed, it is now i wp|l-known fact that merchants in London are mixing hops with Indian and Oyion teas, and retailing the compound at the high price of two and six-pence a pound, It is not ascertained what tffnct hop t««a will have on the sys'em. Will it be a soothing drink, or will it be denounced by medical mpn and placed in the same category with the produce of the Chinese or Indian plant ?