Comments on: Tea Week Two ~ Litera Tea

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:25:03 +0000

What an interesting post! Thanks for sharing!

By: LaTeaDah

LaTeaDah — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:56:08 +0000

What an interesting and informative post! I always enjoy learning about samovar’s and you have filled in a few gaps in my knowledge base. Great post! One of my girlfriends has a samovar that looks much like the one you have posted first — black with designs in bright colors. It’s very pretty!

When you have time, I would enjoy reading the syrup recipe that your mother would make to sweeten tea.

Thanks for participating in the Gracious Hospital-i-Tea blog-a-thon!

LaTeaDah

By: infinitygoods

infinitygoods — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:32:32 +0000

This is a wonderful post Ellen. I thoroughly enjoyed it. So informative, and warm, and beautifully illustrated too. Thank you so much for posting this. I am very much looking forward to the varenya post and I hope the recipe will be included. I just love tea and you are making this carnival sound so good that I have to go visit the other ladies to see if they can compete with this post. I really enjoyed this sit by samovar as I was actually sipping my tea when my blog reader revealed your post.
Blessings.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:08:59 +0000

I enjoyed reading about the samovar and the Russian customs.

Katherine

By: Litera Tea ~ Anne of Green Gables « The Happy Wonderer

Litera Tea ~ Anne of Green Gables « The Happy Wonderer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:20:12 +0000

[...] “You are right, Marilla. I’ll try not to think about myself at all.” Enjoy a little tea in my library in celebration of Litera-tea! My first Litera posts about Russian Tea is here. [...]

By: Kathi

Kathi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:34:39 +0000

Hello Ellen, amazing story, thank you for sharing. Everything is so beautiful, I work with a woman from Russia so I can’t wait to share your blog with her. Thanks for sharing!

Kathi

By: grace

grace — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:04:16 +0000

oooh how interesting a post, my daughter bought me the Russian tea glasses many many years ago and I still love them, Mom always enjoyed her tea from a clear glass cup!!

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:46:39 +0000

Now I shall treasure my samovar all the more!

I posted a picture on last week’s ‘tea stories’…but now I have a more complete understanding of the place it had in the Russian homes. Mine has several official looking stamps engraved on the side…Russian print but the dates range from 1898 to 1906. Have you any idea what those would have been?

By: nikkipolani

nikkipolani — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:34:31 +0000

I knew absolutely nothing about samovars until now - what a terrific informative post!

By: karen

karen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:11:32 +0000

How interesting. I never knew all the background of Samovar, and I love to learn the history of objects. This post was truly a labor of love. Thank you. We have a museum of Russian arts and crafts nearby, I must visit now. Blessings, Karen