I fail at research (english tea)

Tox

I'm doing a research project, and part of the data I need is the portion sizes for Tregnothan Earl Grey tea.

From what I can find, it's ~1g of loose per serving (based on an image of a label that appeared to say "10 sachets, 10g"), but I've no idea what the actual serving size portion is.

Can anybody help?

I have googled the everyliving crap out of Tregnothan, and tea in general, and just cannot seem to find what I'm looking for.

Tox

Okay, does that say "10 sachets, 20g e" ?

And does that mean "10 sachets, each of which contains 20g of loose tea" ?

Also, how much water would one add per sachet? Like, is there a set standard?

Argh, I'm so not a tea drinker!

djmitchella

First, it's Tregonthan, not Tregnothan, though google would have told you that straight away. As for how I found the info below; first off, I know how to make tea already, which helps, but secondly:

GIS for "tregonthan tea" gives this picture which is a clearer version of yours, and confirms that it's 10 sachets for a total of 20g.

Sanity checking, that makes perfect sense -- a typical teabag is very light, so 2g is entirely reasonable; googling for "teabag weight" gives this, where they have 10g for 3 Red Rose teabags, but Red Rose is fairly serious tea so could well be stronger.

As for water, this is a reasonable place to start for how to actually make a cup of tea; typically you'd add make one cup per person and one for the pot, and the amount of liquid per person is "a cup's worth", so a US cup / 250ml or so per person is not too far off.

Tox

Thank you!

...and actually, according to the GIS it's Tregothnan"

It's a weird 'n' is what I'm saying.

e: That was quick and painless (and helpful), can be closed.

ceres

Before I do I feel the need to express my amusement that you both managed to misspell it with a picture of it right there.