Lower Saxony23.06.2014Dree is Oostfresenrecht
If you visit East Friesland, it will immediately strike you that everywhere tea is offered as a welcoming drink. According to the old custom "Dree is Oostfresenrecht" („Three is the allowance for East Frisians “) one should drink at least three cups. If no further tea is wished, one can announce this by putting the spoon in the cup.
No wonder that in Friesland about 2.5 kilogrammes of tea per head and year are consumed! This is approx. 10 times more than in the rest of Germany! Tea entered East Friesland during the 17th century. Introduced by Dutchmen and Englishmen, it took one hundred years until tea was accepted by all social classes. The oldest tea business enterprise Bünting was founded in 1806. Bünting mixed the first real East Frisian tea. Since then two further companies (Thiele & Freese in Emden as well as Onno Behrends in Norden) produce tea with the protected name “Original East Frisian tea”.
Original East Frisian tea mixture:
Boiling water
Teapot with the inalienable warmer
Kluntje (candy sugar, white or brown)
Cream
Teacups
Best to use are small, wafer-thin porcelain cups. Nevertheless, the correct preparation is even more important. Boiling water is poured in the teapot to rinse it. Then the measured East Frisian tea is added to the now warm pot. You always can use the formula “a teaspoon of tea per cup and a final one for the pot“. Next, the pot is filled up to half with water that is now not boiling anymore. The lid is closed for about three to four minutes. Finally, the teapot is filled completely with water and the tea is ready.
More information (in German): http://www.buenting-tee.de/
Photo: Petr Kratochvil, http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=4291
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