It's so fascinating to watch you explore German culture. My mum is from Hamburg 🇩🇪 but I was born in London 🇬🇧 & have lived here all my life. Mum normally drinks coffee in the morning and tea the rest of the day, apart from maybe a coffee in the afternoon with cake. She's always had herbal (as well as black) tea, which I've always referred to as "mum's funny teas" but I now drink "funny" tea more than black tea too! 🤣 Mum is now 82 & still on her funny tea, including liquorice. Oh, and mum uses a tea egg/ tea infuser. Love your content - I've only recently stumbled across your channel. Hope you manage to go to some Christmas markets this year x
You already got fans from Ostfriesland :). Happy to see you guys explore also our culture, which is like bavaria quite different to the rest of the country languagewise, landscape and of course tea-wise. :) Super video, well done! Thumbs up! I usually eat cookies to it and I drink 2 litres of eastfrisian tea per day, until 5 o'clock. Welcome here, villages like Greetsiel, Norden, Leer, the islands like Juist oder Norderney and the coastline are worth exploring. :)
When I saw the thumbnail and the caption(part of it) I was triggered because in Ostfriesland the people drinks the most liters of tea per year in the world! And then at the end of the caption you mentioned Ostfriesland. :D The neighbour county Ammerland and Oldenburg is also tea land! At least in my parents household. Yes we drink 1 liter tea a day. :D
Ich trinke hier in Südniedersachsen auch sehr gern Ostfriesentee. Aber weil der (nach meinem Geschmack) nur mit ordentlich Kluntje und Sahne so lecker ist, gibt es ihn leider doch eher ausnahmsweise und meistens Kaffee. Ich will mir gar nicht vorstellen, wieviel Kluntje ich bei zwei Litern Tee zu mir nehmen würde.🙂 VG
My German partner’s father was from the island of Sylt and his father (her grandfather) was the Pastor in the largest church there prior to WWII. As Pastor, his income was minimal. In other words, they were poor, but respected. Her father came from a family of six boys, three of whom died in the war. My partner’s mother, on the other hand, came from a wealthy family whose money came from shipping and imports. Her grandmother from this side of the family was British. Their family became rich through the East India Company and they drank tea! We owned a complete set of those “Friesischen” pottery tea pots, cups, plates, etc. We drank tea and not coffee. I haven’t watched your video yet, but we definitely had a ritual for preparing each pot of tea: boiling water was first swished around the tea pot to warm the porcelain, then the tea leaves were introduced and more boiling water was added to the teapot. The tea leaves were not constrained in bags. It was expected that they would settle to the bottom. Even the sugar used in the tea we drank was special. It was what I would call “rock candy”. Hard sugar in various sizes. The larger sizes were meant to be held between the teeth as you drank, the smaller sizes could be melted in the cup.
I enjoyed your video...I'm German descent and learning more about the culture... I also purchased a tea set ,silver from Etsy and also a tea strainer I got an exceptional deal on ...I was gifted an English tea pot so I use that. The tea ...they have a vendor in the United States that sells this Friesan Tea . .I think I'll purchase a bag and make it ,Thanks.
Grüner Tee und Roibuschtee fehlen noch. Brennesseltee hilft bei Blasenentzündung 😊 Ich lebe im Ammerland, wir sind die Nachbarn von Ostfriesland, hier ist Tee auch sehr beliebt und wir haben auch diese Teezeremonie.
To get a proper layer separation the cream needs to float, not be liquid: Rahm, not Sahne. Rahm is the stuff that floats on top of milk but that's hard to get nowadays, doubly so in supermarkets. A proper replacement that also floats is clotted cream, you can make that out of store-bought cream (needs to be organic, or better said without carageen, to properly separate). Right now you're getting creamy-astringent, then astringent-sweet, what you should get is creamy-astringent, astringent, astringent-sweet: Three layers. As to the tea: What you got there is an East Frisian *style* blend, not East Frisian blend... only blends made in the area are allowed to be called that. Bünting should be available in the whole of Germany. British breakfast blends work in a pinch, but East Frisian is usually less Assam heavy and instead goes with more Ceylon and/or Darjeeling. Not really less in-your-face but with additional subtlety for the tea-only layer. The origin is not a true faux pas in the East Frisian mind, ultimately it's the cup that counts and not who mixed the leaves. Then, last thing: Water. In the south where you are the water is probably quite hard while East Frisia has excessively soft water, which can severely impact taste. OTOH, fixing that can lead you quickly down a rabbit hole. Oh, *last* last thing: You drank less than three cups (at least on video). It's a mortal insult to offer or drink less than three cups, reason is that back in the days sugar was expensive and less than three cups don't use up the Kluntje. Stirring the cup can range from mortal insult to pineapple on pizza, depending.
Spaeking about East-Frisia: There is an unwritten law, stating, that you have the right to stay in someone else's house, as long as there is "Klüntche" (Candis) in your tea! That way, you could figure out, how much the host likes you. The more "Klüntche" is in your tea, the more you are liked! All the best: Kevin2 (Your friendly youtube comment-section ranger :-)
Thank you for reminding me about tea in East Frisia. Years ago I wrote my dissertation about East Frisian villlage churches and visited almost every village in the area. Frequently, when I was photographing and measuring a church, someone would come over and ask, if I was the American researching the churches. Then they would invite me into their homes to tea, which was a great honor because the East Frisians are very friendly but are considered rather reticent by other Germans. You do need the East Frisian tea mix and very soft water to make it, and tea in East Frisia is somewhat stronger than you describe. The East Frisians say the tea is very relaxing, but the tea itself is very stimulating, The ceremony, however, unlike a coffee break, is really relaxing. Everything in the office, shop or home stops twice a day. Everyone comes and sits at a nicely set table until after at least the obligatory three cups of tea have been drunk, and the last teaspoon has been put in the last cup, Then the hostess stops offering to pour anymore tea, and everyone leaves the table.
The rock sugar is named "Kluntjes" in Friesland. As next You could try the "bergische kaffeetafel". It is somewhat similar but instead of tee coffee is served from the "Dröppelminna". Additional with "Waffeln, Kirschen und Sahne" or cream puffs with cherries, "Windbeutel" in german. (The very big cream puffs are also named Sturmsack 😉😂)
When you plan a visit to Ostfriesland you should consider a visit to Papenburg. It's a lovely little town just before you cross the border to county Ostfriesland. They have a museum that shows how peat collectors lived in the past, they exhibit old river ships in the canal that runs through the town. And something for Kevin (and the kids) is Otto Meyer Werft which constructs cruise ships and you can tour the factory. This is really cool and interesting.
@@V100-e5q Yeah, it was more fun when it was still running. 420 km/h was such a smooth ride. It's a shame they sold the tech to China instead of building new passenger lines in Germany and Europe.
Drinking tea for small illnessess is definitely a common German thing. :) Colds, stomach aches, you name it. My ma always had and still has a lot of tea varieties at home, and so do I. Peppermint and Rosebud were stables when I grew up. Chamomile and "Fenchel, Kümmel, Sternanis" were predominately for illnesses, but not exclusively. Now they are sooooo many varieties in stores I have a ton at home. XD Loose tea is defenitely the best though. There are small tea shops that sell excellent loose tea mixtures that are not sold in stores. I live in Hamburg and the best fruit tea I ever tasted came from one of these stores. Fun fact: I don't consider myself a regular tea drinker but I know a lot of people who don't drink any coffee at all.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Thank you. :) What I forgot to say is, that we also like to add honey and/or lemon juice to our teas if we are feeling unwell (or not). They are natural remedies, very soothing for colds and sore throats and taste great as well! Candis was not that common when and where in Germany I grew up (Brandenburg/Berlin).
And if you have touth or gums pain or your voice is gone gargling with tea will help. I use chamomile to disinfect and sage for the voice or gargling with salted water. I use salt and thyme and oregano to inhale.
@@wibkesworld3208 Ah yes, the famous chicken soup! (Erasco, with the round little shell noodles for me) The only time in the year I go for canned soup. Funnily enough it has been proven that chicken broth is very good for colds and is not just a nostalgic placebo from childhood. But then again, who cares?! If it works, it works!
When you go to Hamburg, you should plan a longer stay and check out the Halligen. These little islands are so special and fantastic, you HAVE to see them. :)
Yes! The Watt-Wanderungen were my favourite as a kid. There are lots of tours geared at familes, the tourist offices know all of the local ones, the free ones and even those not listed online. But be sure to explore with a tour. The tides work differently out there, rather different from a normal beach coast, and being surprised out there is dangerous.
Hamburg has its own treats. Better schedule a stay in Ost- (e.g. Emden) or even Nordfriesland (Husum) to explore the tidal flats. From Cuxhaven a waggon ride to Neuwerk should be fun for a family. And don't let the Wattworms bite you! And don't forget a tour to Helgoland by ship.
so great that you have our traditional "Ostfriesische Rose" Teaset. I've got one too, cause I'm from Ostfriesland. We can sleep at night because we are used to it. My dad always said that he drunk tea as a baby. All kids love our tea because of the Kluntje. The waffles that you mentioned ususally have a lot of christmas spices in it. The rest of the year we traditionaly will have "Krinstuut" with it or "Teekuchen". But every village has different Traditions. I don't think any "Ostfriese" would use a tea bag or Darjeeling tea. We would always put the tea right into the tea pot and use a "Teebesen". You will still need a spoon that you put in your cup if you don't want another cup of tea. You got the "3 cups tradition" right. But like have seen our cups are very very small. (we usually don't make it so full as you did). So great to see our Tradition in your video. Thank you so much! It would nice to meet you if you will travel here.
Herbs for tea are best out of the own garden. I grow Pfefferminze, Zitronenmelisse, Wermut …. in my garden. If you travel to Ostfriesland you must visit the restaurant poggenstool in Neuharlingersiel. It is very exclusive and the cook is an old friend of my dad, they used to work together ages ago
Hi Sara, I´m from Northern Germany and I have Herbal tea at work(almost 1 litre a day) called "Schietwettertee" (bad weather tea) and in the cold months I prefer Darjeeling tea at home. But in the morning I need a strong cup of coffee to get started (like most germans). In summer I often take some fruit tea cold (don´t take the "Icetea", its full of sugar). In my garden I have "Zitronenmelisse" to dry as a herbal tea for a better sleep: a spoonful per cup, let it stirr for 10 minutes (maybe with a little bit of honey) and you will sleep very calm. See you (all) in the next video. have a nice day
Thank you for yet another very interesting video. Some additional information perhaps: East Frisia, along the North Sea coast of lower Saxony received its name from the old tribe of the Frisians, who, quite distinct from other people in the area, had their own language and culture. As their numbers are small they got gradually immersed into the larger states of The Netherlands (West Frisia) and Germany (East and North Frisia). While the Dutch West Frisians have retained their language and you find bilingual road signs in the northern parts of the Netherlands, the German East Frisians have almost lost their Frisian but for just a few "language islands". The North Frisians on the other hand have still got a strong feeling of their own North Frisian identity. They live along Schleswig-Holstein's North Sea coast north of the Elbe River. By the way, a minor mistake in your video: Although the tea-drinking people you mention are "East Frisian", they live in the Northwest of Germany. So, a bit confusing: West Frisians live in the NE of the Netherlands, East Frisians live east of them in the NW of Germany.
Hi Sara, I`m really overwhelmed, how detailed and meticulous your investigations (for numbers, years, a. s. o.) have been made concerning this (extraordinary ?) matter 👍. Thank you for creating your videos with such a big passion ! Liebe Grüße Klaus Z.
Ja, das mußt Du doch auch schon bemerkt haben, daß Sara ihre Hausaufgaben immer sehr ordentlich macht. Das kann aber noch nicht vom deutschen Einfluß kommen, das steckt einfach so in ihr. Kommt wohl eher von Erziehung/Ausbildung und entspricht auch wohl ihrem Charakter. Stimmt's Sara..?
@@yt-viewerfromger320 that’s very nice of you to say, thank you. I studied journalism in college so I learned how to research and write articles for newspapers. 😄
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Your answer, Sara, confirms my personal impression about your well done jobs and videos. Until now, I didn`t know anything about your former studies and college education, but it explains, why your videos often are based on such an expended research and facts. A big 👍and a 😘 for you.
When you're exploring East Frisia and the north in general you maybe wann do a video about the "Plattdeutsche Sprache" since it is the actual language spoken by the people in the north in private life. Driving through East Frisia and the islands you should listen to "Plattdeutsche Lieder" which are northern German folk songs similar to folk/irish folk songs in "Plattdeutsch". Check out some songs of groups like "Laway" or "Otto Groote Esemble" on UA-cam. They kind of transport the spirit and feeling of the people in the north sea coast of Germany. Best to enjoy on a story day or cosy winter's eve. LG, your followers from the North :)
That is sooooo cool that you went so much in detail with Ostfriesland, the area close to my old "Heimat"! Ostfriesen are an own people! Still caring about their very old traditions and speak their Low German (Plattdeutsch)! It is so lovely there, something you have probably never seen before! The landscape in Ostfriesland is kind of totally flat and it is always at least a bit windy... that's why you feel so free there! And the architecture: You will find there loads of these traditional Lower Saxony farm houses like everywhere in the German very north! Visit East Frisia, you won't regret and the impressions will stay forever!
Eine kleine Idee noch für euren Kanal fürs nächste Jahr: Es gibt einige typisch deutsche Frühlingsgetränke, die vielleicht für eure amerikanischen Zuschauer interessant wären. Maibowle bzw. Waldmeisterbowle (im Mai), Erdbeerbowle (im Juni), und Holunderbowle (auch im Juni) bzw. hier auch Holundersaft.in beiden Versionen aus den Blüten und aus den Beeren. Bei all den Getränken gibt es alkoholische und nicht-alkoholische, kindergeeignete Formen. Noch schaffen könntest du dieses Jahr die deutsche Gelee- und Marmeladen-Kultur (Marmelade sagt der normale Deutsche zu Konfitüre; offiziell hat uns das die EU aber untersagt, denn Marmelade ist nur aus Zitrusfrüchten). Schwarze Johannisbeere, Holunder, Quitte und Sanddorn (kannst du in Bayern nur fertig kaufen, denn der wächst da nicht) und Mirabelle, sind typisch deutsche Obstsorten.
There is another region in Germany with a lot of people drinking tea- it`s Nordfriesland (north frisia). That`s the region at the danish border. The best known island is Sylt. In north frisia tea is also drunken mixed with rum or mixed with a spirit called Geele Köm. Geele means yellow and Köm is a spirit made from wheat. They also drink a mixture of coffee with rum and a cream topping called Pharisäer(Pharisee) or hot chocolate with rum and a cream topping called Tote Tante (dead aunt).I guess, you will enjoy that too. And if you bake waffles with cream, try to cook some canned sour cherries and put them- hot as they are- on the waffles too. It`s very delicious.
Wonderful video! 😍😍By the way, tea bags are also a German invention. I'm a total coffee drinker from 12 years old (coffee black and espresso), except when I'm sick. Was like that in childhood - there was tea (fruits or herbs) when we were sick, or in winter evenings, especially when we were in the cold all day. With it there was always "Teewurst" (so german😂) tea sausage with pickles. 🙋♂
I grew up in Southern Germany and like neither beer nor coffee. They haven‘t kicked me out yet because of it, but many Germans find this incomprehensible… My grandma used to ask me at every family Kaffee und Kuchen occasion whether I STILL didn‘t drink coffee, as if this was something you grow into when becoming a proper adult… Funnily enough, my stepsister also doesn‘t like coffee…
We have two daughters and after they left for school I usually prepare two big carafes of rosehip, mallow or peppermint tee and let them cool down. This and a carafe of water is what is always available on the kitchen table for the girls (and me) to drink. Easy, cheap, no sugar and everyone likes it. I grew up with that and know a lot of other parents doing it. Greetings from 🇨🇭
If you come to Hamburg here are a few tips: visit the main church the Michel (Michaeliskirche) Kramer's Amtsstuben (apartments for the widows of former employees), make a harbor tour with a barge, go to the Miniaturwunderland (especially for the children, all 5 including the father)😂😂. Walk through the old Eltunnel. Try a fishbrötchen down at the Landungsbrücken, buy "Franzbrötchen" in a bakery.
And take the ferry to Blankenese from Landungsbrücken. Where you get to by Underground train called "Hochbahn". Because at the harbor sections it becomes an elevated line just like the L in Chicago of the El in NYC. Walk around Blankenese to train you mountain legs. You could walk (climb) to the S-Bahnhof and get back by train to the city center where you probably are staying. You will then pass the more affluent areas of Hamburg like Othmarschen but also old industrial quarters in Altona (like Altoona in PA).
I love Tea and hardly drink anything else and in my travels to Germany I had often bought really good Teas. Thinking about this made me do a search on German Tea culture which is why I found this video. I had seen the Ostfriesland phrase on some Teas but never really researched it and I it so fascinating that the Ostfriesland has the highest Tea drinking public in the world. Then I went on German amazon and found Ostfriesland Tea blends and rock candy and the little spoon/ladle they use for the Tea ceremony and ordered it all - looking forward to try this. - Love your channel by the way - it's nice to be able to visit German vicariously.
You just got yourself another fan from East Frisia here! Should you ever visit East Frisia, you should definitely come to Emden and visit the tea museum in Norden - and the Thiele Tee shop! There are also many lovely small villages directly at the coast (like Greetsiel) which I am sure you'd really like. You even own a proper East Frisian teapot! That's amazing! (By the way: The pattern is called "Ostfriesische Rose".)
Importing tea through Wuppertal-WHAT? Never heard of that one. The only Wuppertal I know is to the east of Cologne/Düsseldorf in the Bergischen Land. And definitely not a seaport.
I was asking her the same thing, half of my family and friends are frantically searching the net for a possible source. We came up with nothing. I grew up in Wuppertal Ronsdorf and I never heard of this. I just wish she would give us the source, I am so interested what's behind it.
Yes okay so a link to the sources is listed in the video description but this particular fact came from Wikipedia. I went back and checked it and there it was again - “the sea ports of Hamburg and Wuppertal Ronsdorf.” So this fact in the article is completely wrong! Can’t always trust Wikipedia.
Even when I was in school my classmates came and we drank a lot of tea, (giggeling included). I had about 160 different teas. Some require cream or milk, some require lemon, some don’t require something else at all… and now I require an ace of a dentist. I really like how you set the table and the historical information is very well done. Greetings from the north of Germany. 🇩🇪
Thank you for this video, it makes my Sunday morning even more enjoyable. :) You mentioned “peppermint or spearmint.” I got two plants for my balcony from a friend, one is spearmint and the other is Moroccan mint. They are very different. The spearmint really tastes like chewing gum, while the Moroccan mint tastes like what you know from mint tea. You can make your own tea from the leaves, or put a single leaf into a small glass of black tea. Of course, that wouldn’t be very Frisian anymore, I suppose. :D
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife I admit, it’s not enough for having tea from it all the time, but I can use the leaves if I feel I want something very fresh and DIY. ;) And a single leaf into a cup of tea is something that I can offer to make tea special for guests. :)
Our American family definitely still carries on the tea and coffee traditions of our ancestors. We always have a pastry/bakery treat with our tea time. There is an Oregon company where we order all of our organic loose teas.
Thank you for this informative video. Coffee smells heavenly and then the taste for me is a real let-down. I personally am a convinced and passionate tea drinker - my consumption of black or green tea would rival anybody in Ostfriesland - and I always feel that tea drinkers in Germany are discriminated against. In cafés, hotels, or parties coffee is always on free offer and you get a weird stare if you ask for tea instead. Then you are offered herbal teas... And then oftentimes tea is one soggy, sad teabag in a cup of lukewarm water. In French there are two different words for tea: "thé" for the real stuff, and "infusion" for the herbal and fruit teas. Most people assume that everyone drinks coffee. Many of my friends are tea drinkers too, at other people's houses I often grudgingly drink coffee as I don't want to be a bother. But I don't even own a coffee machine, I drink my tea black (I liked the sound of the rock sugar though), I can sleep soundly after having drunk two liters of black or green tea. My mom always had us drink herbal tea, when we were kids, so until today I don't like it because it reminds me of the time I was ill as a child. Fun fact: Before my son could read, he had to have his vision checked, telling the doctor the objects he saw on the chart. One of them was a cup, and he always said "tea" instead of cup, which had the doctor really confused at first. Did you know that the country with the highest coffee consumption per capita was Finland? What I often notice in Germany today is that the type of coffee people drink in Germany is becoming more and more varied: cappuccino, latte macchiato, espresso ... Italian, French and American influence, I assume. I often hear that American coffee is way weaker than European ones. Have you changed the way you drink it since you moved here? Greetings from a Bavarian black and green tea enthusiast (no connection whatsoever to Ostfriesland)
Trivia: Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a secular cantata called "Coffee Cantata" in which a single father berates his daughter for her coffee addiction. He threatens her that he won't let her marry unless she stops drinking coffee. But she is a smart young woman and makes a secret agreement with her fiancé that he will let her drink coffee again once they are married. - This shows that Bach was on the same side as Frederick the Great in mocking the coffee addiction of his fellow citizens of Leipzig.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Oh, and did you know that we Germans (indirectly) ended the slavery in the Caribbeans with our coffee and tea addiction??? Sugar was notoriously expensive then, so we cultivated an inconspicuous feed beet into the sugar beet and became one of the biggest sugar producers in the world. This made cane sugar almost unprofitable and many of the cane plantages in the Caribbeans went bankrupt - what in turn freed many slaves.
That same JS "saint" in classical (in a broad sense) music performed outside his job contract. For instance in the evening hours - and these performances were called "Nachtmusik". The word is popularized by Mozart's "Eine kleine" and its Roman/Latinised translation must be "nocturne". Well, JS played a lot of Nachtmusik in coffee houses.
"Ostfriesland: "Three times is Frisian law" Things are similarly strict in Ostfriesland, the German stronghold of tea drinking. East Frisia teas are preferred in East Friesland, these are special blends of Assam and other types of black tea. Non-East Frisians can find out how the strong East Frisian tea is celebrated correctly during a tasting in the "East Frisian Tea Museum" in the small town of Norden. The numerous tea breaks that structure the daily routine of a tradition-conscious East Frisian serve less to quench thirst than to take a break from everyday stress, happily socializing. The distinctive features of the East Frisian tea culture include "Kluntje" and "Rohhlepel". Ostfriesentee must have steeped for at least five minutes so that it gets the desired bitter strength. Before it is poured from the bulbous pot into the cups, which are typically decorated with a white and blue decoration, a piece of rock candy, a Kluntje, is placed on the bottom of each cup. The often richly decorated, silver Kluntje tongs, traditionally the most important gift for East Frisian confirmands, are used for this purpose. The cup is carefully filled with enough tea so that the “summit” of Kluntje can still be seen. The sugar lump has to crack, otherwise the water wasn't hot enough. In such - rare - cases, the person preparing the food is mildly reprimanded. The East Frisian drinks his tea with cream, almost never with milk. With a special cream spoon ("Rohhlepel"), thick sweet cream is carefully lifted around the rock candy peak. The tea drinkers take their time and pensively watch how the cream slowly sinks and spreads to the "East Frisian Cloud". Stirring this structure is taboo. Instead, the mixture of tea, cream and rock candy is enjoyed unperturbed. In this way, the connoisseur can taste the three basic facets of the East Frisian attitude to life with one cup: Tein-bitter, candy-sweet and creamy-soft. The teaspoon next to each cup is not there for stirring, but serves as a signaling device. Since the language-economical East Frisians do not like to use superfluous words, the tea drinker is refilled without asking until he puts the teaspoon in the cup without a word. As a rule, Frisian law applies, which means that each guest is expected to drink at least three cups." Source (german): www.die-teeseite.de/tee-zeremonien.php
The blue and white decorated pots and cups are used, but also the "Ostfriesische Rose". My grandma had an old "Service" of the "Ostfriesische Rose" and the cups are without a handle. You only filled the cup 2/3 the way you discribed it with the "Kluntje" and the cream. And you didn't use a spoon then. There ist an exception from the rule for the guests to drink at least 3 cups - priests and doctors can only drink one. And when you serve the tea, you first fill your own cup to see if the tea hast the right colour.
interesting tidbit, there is a coffee substitute called Caro Kaffe or colloquially Muckefuck, which is still sold in stores but nowadays mostly associated with after ww2 Germany or GDR/DDR. if you want, give it a try! tastes too much like oats to me, but my grandma loves it
i love this video! so many interesting insights! i actually grew up in a tea drinking family. my parents are from the south of germany but moved to the north (hannover, so not the north north) after i was born and they are drinking ostfriesentee for breakfast every morning and also in the afternoon if they have cake. they are basically drinking coffee only if they are with other coffee drinking people. we never had a coffee machine at home! :) and yes, in general tea is something you always suggest, if somebody is not feeling well, thinks they are getting a cold, or coming home on a cold winter day just to warm up. then most people would not pick black tea (that is usually more a thing for people who prefer tea over coffee), something herbal or fruity is preferred by most or especially camomile if you want to relax or are sick.
I worked on the island of Juist many years ago. The traditional East Frisian teacups were far smaller than those you get in normal tea sets, about half the size. The tea was almost tar-like in consistency and the Sahne was not actual cream but condensed milk. So yes, if you sat down to have tea with someone you would have to have two refills, but since the cups were very small, it wasn't as much as it sounded. But still very, very strong.
As far as Kaffee und Kuchen is concerned, the polite numbers were two, never more than 2 cups of coffee and 2 pieces of cake. Children had Kinderkaffee, lots of milk and very little coffee. Growing up we had that meal daily to bridge the long gap between Mittagessen and Abendbrot. But we had tea too, drinking it with rocksugar and rum for the adults. In the Cafés it was served with lemon. Of course Fencheltee for an upset stomach, Hagebuttentee for the vitamin C, Kamillentee to sleep. Ah, the good old times!
In East Frisia we have "Teekuchen" (Teacake) that is what we eat the most with tea and of course some cookies. I never heard of waffles with cream. Maybe its Regional to some part of Frisia Idk.
Before coffee and tea, "the people" - commons and German kings - drank beer. Water was generally suspect, except when taken from a source beyond suspicion. That "safe" water, though, was often used to brew beer. Brewers would brew a first production from an amount of malted barley and hops that had a regular alcohol by volume (ABV) content and regular taste by today's standards. Siphoning off the beer would leave most of the residue (died off yeast) - draff in English or brewer's spent grain, or "bostel" in Dutch - in the brewing vessel and brewers would use that for a new round of brewing, potentially adding some high-carb ingredient. There's a historic problem in that beer might be called "poor man's wine" in some circles and then what did these peeps drink - wine? Anyhow, in Dutch breweries they repeated the brewing from draff several times and ended with very low ABV beer for women or children (*). During the 80-years' Dutch independence war, under siege, a town's "town hall" (the wise guys) would debate what fraction of the grain reserve would be earmarked for bread, beer, beer for women and children, etc., as got documented in minutes of meeting. Going back to before coffee and tea, and the history of old-rich or old-nobility families, you'll see many of them have some financial interest in breweries, either as owners or as shareholders. A king's plea for people to go back to beer, away from coffee and teat, may have an explanation in that. (*) Not too long ago, cheap apple or orange juice in the supermarket might have had an ABV of, say 05% to 1% through natural fermentation. Mothers feeding their toddler a baby bottle filled with such apple juice might see their child sleeping in the pram soon after - actually drunk. Sterilization prevents that fermentation at least for some time, but impacts the taste and raises energy consumption and price.
Wir trinken tatsächlich auch nur Tee und jedes Wochenende um 16Uhr sitzt die Familie zusammen und trinkt Tee und es gibt selbstgemachten Kuchen. Ich liebe es! Mein Lieblingstee ist grüner Tee.
You're planning on visiting East Frisia and Hamburg? Very good decision! One of my grandmothers came from there, so I claim to be a quarter Frisian myself. When I was little and still living in Bremen, I spent many summers there in this beautiful countryside. My favorite Frisian places are Greetsiel and the islands of Spiekeroog and Wangerooge. While visiting Hamburg, make sure to do a harbor tour on a small boat (Barkasse), instead of taking a large ship. At Jungfernstieg, take a "Kanalfahrt" instead of the touristy and less charming "Alterrundfahrt". The Kanalfahrt is, as far as I remember, popular among locals. A truly must-see in Hamburg is the "Miniatur Wunderland". With 3 kids and so many things to see and explore, visit early and plan to spend at least 3/4 of a day. It'll be a blast for all of you, I promise! Don't forget to film that experience :-)
In East Frisia we also like to eat Cake with our tea. There is a cake called Teekuchen which many others will now as Butterkuchen. Around New Year's Eve it's also common to eat Neujahrsröllchen. "Drei mal ist Ostfriesenrecht" which refers to 3 cups of tea. You always drink 3 cups. If you want more, of course you can get more cups. 😄 Unfortunately I noticed you've used the wrong tea. An authentic tea ceremony is always done with authentic East Frisian Tea which has to be produced in East Frisia. (Bünting and Thiele for example) I'm very passionate about it 🙈 But I love seeing that you do the East Frisian Tea Ceremony!
I grew up in Germany and miss the German waffles. They are usually shaped like 4 hearts in one waffle, with the points in the center. They taste so good with strawberry sauce and/ or whipping cream. I visited my family in Ostfriesland, and love the old traditional blue and white dishes with the so called Zwiebel Muster (Onion design). Thank you the video.
So delicious! When Kevin and I first got married, my aunt gave us a heart shaped waffle maker and it was exactly as you described! We had no idea it was also popular in Germany.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife The heart shape is considered the standard waffle. The big rectangle ones are considered Belgian and have only grown more popular during the last two decades, I think.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife The heart shape is considered the standard waffle. The big rectangle ones are considered Belgian and have only grown more popular during the last two decades, I think.
we visited the east frisian islands a few times and I'm very much in love with them. 5 out of 7 are car free, It'sa long drive from southern Germany up north. So if you are considering leaving the car at home, maybe travel in steps. Go by train - or maybe fly from Munich north to Hannover or Cologne and go on by train. it'S not that far from there. Once you've arrived at the cost you can take the ferry. 6 out of 7 Islands even have an airport (for very small airplanes) so it's possible to take a plane - but it's also more expensive.. Due to the tides the ferry does only dirve on certain times a day, when the water is the highest. So we ended up staying in a hotel for one night and then take the first ferry . I could really recommend Borkum, which is the biggest. But there is also a lot to explore and do. But the ohters are also great. There is always a variety of sport activities for "free" (you have to pay the Kurtaxe), there are workshops in art and painting, hiking in the Watt, boat trips to seal islands and so on and so forth. You can always rent bikes and explore the island for yourselves. I had east frisian tea with the most delicious cream puffs with jam and fruit.
One thing they told me during my one and only tea ceremony: In earlier times in East Frisia the lady of the house wouldn't go round the room to fill up everybody's tea cups. No, no, not as easy as that 👆*wagging-my-pointer-finger, here ;-) Instead she would place them on a tray, take them to the kitchen, refill them there and return them to her room full of guests. And how did she know which was whose? ? 🤔❔❔ - By placing the cups on the tray the same way everyone was seated around the table. I somehow adored this story though I don't know how common the practice was...
Just wanted to give a small tea-tip for the summer :) You can brew Hagebutten Tee (rose-hip 1L in total with 3 bags used) and make a small, but strong brew of Pfefferminz Tee (peppermint) (only 1 tea bag, but just enough water to fill your ice cube tray - if it's a bigger one, use 2 bags to get a really strong flavour) Fill the cooled down peppermint tea in the ice cube track and freeze it overnight. Put the cooled down rose-hip tea in the fridge over night. When it's getting hot and you want a nice, cold and refreshing drink, just pour a glass of rose-hip tea with peppermint ice cubes. your tea doesn't get watered down and it has a strong and refreshing tangy taste due to the rose-hip together with the freshness of the peppermint (of course, the more the ice cubes have time to melt,the more you can taste the peppermint). Alternatively, you can just brew 1 L of tea with 2 bags rose-hip and 1 bag peppermint if you don't like ice cubes, or don't want to wait for the peppermint ice cube to melt into your tea. I love to drink this in the summer.
Putting sugar in tea is a big no no for me. Especially in herbal tees, at first it tasted weird but after a while I got the original flavor of the herbs and I could never go back to sugared tea.
Totally interesting: when I worked in Germany, I used to have one cup of cappuccino in the morning in the office, and usually 1 cup later in the afternoon. But I also always made 1 whole tea pot with some of my favorite teas and drank that over the day. And when it was cold (in Winter) I often had hot tea in the evening at home. Since I moved to Canada (12 years ago) I think I might have had 5 cups of tea in total. I don't drink more coffee than in Germany, but definitely less tea. Why? To be honest: I have no idea
The "Kaffee und Kuchen" tradition is definitely very German! Here in the North, most people you visit for Kaffee und Kuchen will probably ask "Kaffee oder Tee?" and offer both. For colds and all kinds of infections I also use different teas. Try a tea from sage leaves -- I dont fancy the taste but its very effective if you have a sore throat or a cough. Very concentrated camomilla tea can be used for minor inflammation on the skin. My grandma just put like a spoonful of boiling water on a camomilla tea bag and then put the hot wet tea bag on the inflamed spot.
I am hessian (a little south of central Germany). Through out my school years I was on a number of student exchanges to different countries. One of my biggest culture shocks was related to tea. I absolutly loved tea as a kid, however I had no yet aquired a taste for black tea. Here in Germany whenever I got offered a drink and asked for tea, I would be asked what kind and usually there would be a few teas to choose from. But everywhere else my request for tea would be met with a confused look and I'd be served black tea. It took me a while to figure out, that most countries seem to equate tea with black tea. And of course it's confusing that a delicate 13 year old would choose black tea over lemonade. In my later teens my family went on vacation to Ostfriesland and my dad, being a huge fan of black tea, had to try the local tea tradition. That's when I discoverd my love for black tea aswell. By the way, have you ever been to a Teeladen (tea store)? They should be right up your alley with your inner Oma and they encompass german tea culture very nicely.
I think you are the type of person for having tea herbs in the garden. My grandmother has different plants in the garden she uses for tea: peppermint, lemon balm (Zitronenmelisse), stinging nettles (Brennnesseln), marigold (Ringelblume), sage (salvia officinalis, Echter Salbei), leaves of raspberries and blackberries (Himbeeren und Brombeeren), yarrows / bloodwort (Schafgarbe) . You can use the fresh leaves or blossoms (marigold) from direct from the garden. It tastes way more better than dried from a tea bag. You can mix it together, however you feel at the moment. A friend of mine has stevia in his garden. You can brew some leaves of it with the tea to sweeten it. Sweet woodruff (Waldmeister) is also a herb you can use for tea. But you should not drink more than 3 cups a day. Nettle stings are very good when you have problems with the bladder / urethra. Yarrows and woodruff are good for headaches and migraine. My most favourite tea is fennel-aniseed-caraway (Fenchel-Anis-Kümmel). When people offe me tea and I asked if they have fennel, I will get asked if I am ill. It is actually good for the stomach and often made for very small children to support the digestion.
I found this a fun and very interesting video. Thank you! I grew up drinking coffee and tea. As a very young child in the US, my friends were surprised that my Italian parents gave us a cup of warm milk with a small shot of espresso often. My love of coffee grew from there. But we often had tea in the afternoons of for illnesses. Then I moved to Germany where I fell in love with the Kaffee (oder Tee )und Kuchen Zeit. Though I stick to one or two cups of coffee a day, I drink pots of tea throughout the day, usually herbal. But especially on cold winter days.
Ich kenne das hier in Deutschland das man zum Frühstück Kaffee trinkt und zum Abendbrot Tee trinkt,meistens Pfefferminz oder Hagebutte Tee das kenne ich so schon als Kind. Wenn wir krank 🤧 waren dann haben wir Kamilletee oder Fencheltee bekommen,das hat uns nie geschmeckt aber geholfen hat’s 😝🤣 Im Sommer wenn wir schwimmen gegangen sind haben wir dann immer schwarzetee gekocht mit Zitrone 🍋 und Honig 🍯 und dann kalt gestellt in Kühlschrank und dann mitgenommen,das war lecker 😋 und erfrischend
Fun fact: When I was doing my apprenticeship at a freight forwarding agency, one of our regular transports was bringing water (special water) to a tea testing location. We had regular transports between Hamburg (I live in Hamburg) and both Leer and Emden. Btw, when you visit Hamburg and want to have someone help you navigate the city, let me know.
yes we would never drink our tea outside of Ostfriesland because of the different water. I know an older woman who always takes the water from here with her when she travels
@@jelster1208 Indeed the East Frisian tea is exactly matched to the water there. - In the Alps, I would add a touch of sea salt to the water. A trick that also makes coffee even better.
When I sum it up. I come to round about 500 liter Peppermint tea plus 150 liter of coffee over the year. Thanks for your video which made me think about it. Funny.
Well according to black tea.. It can make you very agile when you let the black tea steep short time = round about 5 minutes BUT Black tea also makes you calm/almost sleepy when you let the black tea steep long time = round about 8-10 minutes...although it will become a bit more bitter so you have to put a bit of honey into it when you don´t like the bitterness Just saying because you mentioned you can´t sleep at night after consuming black tea at the afternoon..Well then obviously you drank the short time steeped one.
I make tea by using a simple glass tea pot and a serving pot for the table. First I heat up both pots with hot water. Then I prepare the tea in the glass pot, then sift it into the serving pot. You need less tea as the swimming leaves can extract their aroma much better. By sifting the tea it will not become too bitter.
East Frisian here. What a lovely video! It is so nice to see you try and enjoy this important part of our culture! About the tea itself, there is a strong debate among locals about which tea blend is the best, but it is generally a bit stronger. Darjeeling is a lighter black tea (that I personally prefer). The taste of both very much depend on the water. East Frisian water is very lime-deficient, lime makes it taste different. That is why my father will switch to coffee when he leaves East Frisia.
You might show the tea-shelf in your local Edeka to underline our inclination towards herbal infusions, both as drinks and remedies. It is, by the way, pretty common to give toddlers and pre-schoolers cold, unsweetened peppermint tea (or rosehip or other dried fruit infusions) instead of fruit juices (and no halfways educated German mother allows her kids to have sodas these days, Fanta is a HUGE exception on special occasions!).
You know, I actually did get some video shots of the tea shelves and forgot to put them in!! Maybe I'll do another separate video of herbal tea culture here in Germany, since it's quite it's own thing.
I have to agree on the cold unsweetened tea as a drink for children. Growing up (in fact from pre-Kindergarten all through High school) I carried a bootle of fennel tea mixed with some apple juice for natural sweetness with me ☺️
We learned in a tea museum: The cream you pour in from the side of the cup and if you stir, you do it counterclockwise to stop the time and enjoy, and the KLUNTJE is to sweeten what's left on the bottom of the cup, it's usually very bitter 😇🤗❤
I was born in Oldenburg in Lower Saxony (right on the border to East Frisia) and we drank tea twice a day. My grandma always served it along with Butter-Spritzgebäck or Zwieback with butter and marmalade. Sadly, I kind of forgot the tea culture when I moved to Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg) as an 18yo. The people here in Heidelberg prefer coffee over tea and herb tea over black tea. The tea brand I used to drink with my family isn’t available here. East Frisian tea is usually not a very strong black tea and there are a lot of differences in taste between brands and how you serve it. After my grandparents past away, I never tasted their unique tea flavor again. I tried to replicate it, but no tea tastes like granny’s tea 😢
Yes the tea as a remedy is something we defenetly use a lot. Btw. since you guys have a garden, a lot of these herbs can be grown. My grandma has mint, sage, thyme and lemon balm in hers and puts fresh leaves in her tea every morning and evening. Another little trick with herbal teas is honey. Since honey works anti bacterial and anti inflamatory its good in combination with those teas and it also makes them easier to drink for the kids. When I have a cold, I consume around 4-5l of tea a day and run through 1 kg of honey over the week. But it helps really good.
I want a bouncing sugar bowl like that too!🍚 Ich möchte auch so eine springende Zuckerdose! Je veux aussi un sucrier qui saute ! Jag vill också ha en sån där hoppande sockerskål!
Nice to see that you enjoy our eastfriesian Tee culture. I`m eastfriesian and half iranian. That means two Tea cultures united :) so i had my three cups of tea while i was watching your awsome video. There are a lot of details to the tea ceremony and they differ from town to town or from village to village. I`m from Emden and i learned from my grandmother the importance of drinking Tea and so the story continues. It ist even a sensual ritual where Poetry meets attitude. We use less cream in the Tea and the cream is filled in counterclockwise to turn the time back, as we say. We do not eat Waffeln with the Tea. In early days it was orininally raisin bread with butter. But otherwise everything is allowed because Teatime is the time you need to relaxe and enjoy. Thanks for your Video ;)
I prefer coffee, but also like tea like Earl Grey. When you let the tea steam for over 6 minutes, then it becomes relaxing and you can sleep very well. This is because the teain (similar to caffeine) becomes lesser and another ingredient in the leaves of the tea become higher.
Ich bin zwar eher Kaffeetrinker, aber meine Mutter hat früher immer schwarzen Tee mit ein bisschen Zitronensaft zum Frühstück gemacht. Kräutertees trinke ich auch immer, wenn ich kleine Beschwerden habe, auch während ich Corona hatte, haben Salbei-, Zitronenmelisse-, Pfefferminztees usw. sehr mit dem trockenen Hals geholfen.
Thanks! I learned a lot and I am still learning as I am researching now about the tea and coffee topic. Where did you find the information about Wuppertal? Il'd like to read those informations as I was born and raised in Wuppertal, but never ever heard about it. What I know is, that a guy from Wuppertal (NRW) went to South Africa and namend an area "Wupperthal" (< with an "h"), which is very famous for Rooibos Tea now. Also I do know Wuppertal Rondsdorf, of course as I lived in this area in NRW, but it seems that there was another "Wuppertal-Ronsdorf" at the North Sea ports (~ 800km away from "my" Wuppertal!?) as written and accordings in the english (!) Wikipedia version, but without further informations and a empty Wiki page link!? Couldn't find these information in th german version! So, I never heard about THAT "Wuppertal-Ronsdorf", which leaves me kind of confused, to be honest :-) Anyway ... thanks for the video! P.S: Did your guest-family like the cups I sent and had a chance to use them, yet? According to the video: Do they prefer to drink tea or coffee from those cups? :-)
Greetings from Lower Saxony ❤ I'm not from Ostfriesland, but I just like tea, I don't like any coffee ☺ My favourite is fennel tea, it's also good for colds or stomach issues
Moving to England I had visitors bring herbal and fruit teas from home as it was difficult to get teas without black tea mixed in. England was Black tea heaven, but sparse on other types. Lovely video!
What a lovely video, Sara! You´re really taking in so much about Germany, and it´s wonderful to see it all through your eyes. And I so want a cup of tea now, you made it look really delicious! I remember my first Ostfriesen Tee. I was hooked, it´s just so good. And I´m a die hard coffee drinker. I literally go to bed feeling happy that I can drink coffee again soon.
Hallo zusammen. In meiner Familie war/ist Tee eher als Gift bekannt. Oma sagte immer : so krank kann uch gar nicht werden das ich Tee trinke. Das wir keine Rabatte auf Kaffee bekamen wundert mich immer noch. Ich trinke nur Kamillentee wenns mir schlecht geht ider ich Zahnschmerzen habe. Kaffee geht immer, Espresso, Cappuccino normaler Kaffe - egal. Interessant ist, ich trinke auch kaffe kurz vorm ins Bett gehen und schlafe ganz normal. Vielleicht weil uch schon als Kind an Kaffee gewöhnt bin. Ohne Kaffee - ohne mich. Kaffeeunser sei dank 😁
lovely, well researched video. I wanted to give a recommendation for your trip to the north. I don't want to take sides which is better - North Sea or Baltic Sea - but they are vastly different and both worth the trip, maybe even in a long 2-3 week roadtrip in summer if you got the time for that. Its not just the bodies of water that are different but also the landscapes and the people! maybe stay a few days at Hamburg, and then a week at the North Sea and a week at the Baltic Sea. especially since you're traveling with kids, its noteworthy that due to the tides, there's not always water to swim at the North Sea coast but you can go on some "Wattwanderungen" (walking through the miles of "mud" that says behind after the tide) and learn some stuff about the "Watt", which is super funned interesting for the kids and relaxing for parents. The Baltic Sea is great for beach days/weeks (no tide here :) ) and cycling. With kids its great to visit the "Karls Erdbeerhof" near Rostock where you can pick strawberries, go on rides, eat nice foods and some candy (everything is strawberry themed oc). both seas got the best islands, so its best to stay just on a few of them. Noteworthy there are Sylt and the eastfrisian islands in the North Sea and Usedom, Rügen, und Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. My personal favourite is the (Fischland) Darß which is a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. Definitely recommend going there, it's beautiful every time of the year. Its really small so you can basically bike everywhere. The landscape is truly special with some very unique protected beaches and woods. And they're also got some tea culture there and awesome art galleries. It's perfect for family holiday.
What a nice video again ! While watching it I kept sipping my daily litre of frisian tea and found it very appropriate. The interesting thing about the effect of tea is that the longer it steeps the more calming it is so if you drink it in the afternoon you should let it sit for about 6-8 minutes in order to let you get some sleep at night. I learned about the tea ceremony from my parents when they lived on the island of Sylt which is in northern frisia. The frisian area from north to east including the part that lies in the Netherlands shares the same habits when it comes to tea. Many captains from cargo ships used to live on the frisian islands and they brought the tea home from their journeys. My mother also owned a frisian tea set like the one you have so I was very much reminded of her watching you . I think tea is very common in the whole north of Germany which explains why there are quite a few lovely little tea shops up here that sell a large variety of black teas, fruit and herbal teas( of course not in tea bags!) as well as all kinds of utensils you need to make a good tea, tea sets and gifts. My generation grew up with the knowledge of which tea to use for what minor disease : chamomile for a sore stomach but also to gurgle with of you have a sore mouth - it heals anything. Peppermint for colds, sage tea for gurgling helps with a sore throat ( and tastes awful to a child) and my mother's specialty was black tea without sugar against nausea. Furthermore peppermint tea as well as fruit tea ( Hagebutten oder Malven ) used to be what kids would get at youth hostels (Jugendherbergen) when they went on a school trip. Thank you for taking the time and energy to make a video in spite of your demanding every day life, I always enjoy it as my Sunday treat !
This is such a helpful comment! Love all that you added about herbal teas. I think I need to do an entire separate video on herbal teas in Germany. And I didn't know until the comments on this video, that if you steep the tea for longer, it lessens the caffeine! How amazing!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Actually, there are certain compounds in black tea that counteract the effects of caffeine and they are released, when you let it steep longer. So, the caffeine doesn't decrease, it's effects are only postponed.
I also prefer tea over coffee, especially herbal tea. When I'm sick I usually grab a cup of hot tea before taking any medication. Really hot sage tea for a sore throat, ginger for a cold (makes you sweat out all the gunk), although I would go for camomile for stomach problems, not peppermint.
Yeah it was an important city through which tea was imported, so there is a tea culture there also. But it’s not near as popular as it is in Ostfriesland.
Waffels: You should try "Waffeln mit heißen Kirschen" wherever you drink your afternoon tea in Germany. Preferably with freshly whipped cream, not the factory made fake rattle can variety. So good! I am not familiar with Bavaria that much. But it should have spread there too.
Hallo ! Das war ein schönes und Interessantes Video ! Wenn ich in Hamburg bin gehe ich immer zur Kaffeerösterei in der Speicherstadt ,da gibt es wirklich alles erdenkliche was Café betrifft ! Beim Tee ist es so das viele auch einen Schuss Rum dazu geben ! Wenn Fichten in der Nähe sind kann man aus den Nadeln einen Schmackhaften Tee machen ! Natur pur 🤗 Liebe Grüße
Wow, you really dug into this topic. It's wonderful to see, how much thought you give into exploring different cultures. I'm not sure how fond Ostfriesen are of it, but a third option between a tea bag and having the tea loosely swimming, is a Tee-Ei (not to confuse with a chinese tea egg).
Ostfriesen lassen ihren Tee lange ziehen und er hat dadurch deutlich weniger Koffein. Deswegen kann man ihn auch abends trinken. Ostfriesischer Tee ist so kräftig, damit er das Moorwasser überdeckt, dass es dort früher als Trinkwasser gab. Deswegen hat Tee sich dort so durchgesetzt. Lieber schwarzer Tee, als schwarzes Wasser…
Just a separate small mention: I love coffee and drink it nearly daily, not seldom 2 big cups, sometimes even 3 big cups a day, yet I do have 20+ different kinds of tea at home and do love to drink them. If it's the middle of the night and I'm cold and want something warm, there isn't anything better than a nice warm cup of tea (and sometimes you just don't want coffee for some reason or another xD) (like 80% are fruit teas xD)
im not a coffee drinker but somtimes i like some "muckefuk". i got all my herbs in my garden for all the teas. for the waffle maker i recommend one were you can change the plates, so you can do different shapes or use it as a grill or sandwich maker
Thank you for your very informative video! I always drink black tea with cream in the morning. I didn't even know that there is a place in the world where this is tradition. I'm Austrian from the region "Steiermark" and I think our culture is a lot like the Bavarian culture. I guess our culture is more Bavarian than a lot of other german regions culture and so is our language/ dialect. From what I see most Austrians or especially people from my region drink coffee or black tea in the morning, while kids like "Kakao". Ma dad and my grandma drank a coffee-subsitiute that is made out of grains. Most Austrians do not put milk in the tea, but in their coffee. I put either milk or cream in it, but no sugar. I drink a lot of herbal teas in the afternoon, like a liter or something.. My grandmother collected al kinds of herbs and made a huge pot of herbal tea with a lot of different herbs in it for the whole family to drink throughout the day.... I love the "Kaffee und Kuchen"-Tradition in Austria. That's something we enjoy especially with friends that come over on Sundays or when I'm invited to a friends place.
I guess I drink tea to 80%, milk-coffee (Milchkaffee) to 20%. One house further I have a great tea-store run by an old Indian since 1982. He goes to India two or three time each year, visits tea-plantages and orders there for his store in Hamburg. He offers excellent Indian green, black and fruit teas, also mixtures and Chinese or Japanese sorts.
It's so fascinating to watch you explore German culture. My mum is from Hamburg 🇩🇪 but I was born in London 🇬🇧 & have lived here all my life. Mum normally drinks coffee in the morning and tea the rest of the day, apart from maybe a coffee in the afternoon with cake. She's always had herbal (as well as black) tea, which I've always referred to as "mum's funny teas" but I now drink "funny" tea more than black tea too! 🤣 Mum is now 82 & still on her funny tea, including liquorice. Oh, and mum uses a tea egg/ tea infuser.
Love your content - I've only recently stumbled across your channel. Hope you manage to go to some Christmas markets this year x
You already got fans from Ostfriesland :). Happy to see you guys explore also our culture, which is like bavaria quite different to the rest of the country languagewise, landscape and of course tea-wise. :) Super video, well done! Thumbs up! I usually eat cookies to it and I drink 2 litres of eastfrisian tea per day, until 5 o'clock. Welcome here, villages like Greetsiel, Norden, Leer, the islands like Juist oder Norderney and the coastline are worth exploring. :)
Moin :)
Moin aus Ostfriesland. Wir sind vor 2 Wochen aus Greetsiel Richtung Marienhafe gezogen.
When I saw the thumbnail and the caption(part of it) I was triggered because in Ostfriesland the people drinks the most liters of tea per year in the world! And then at the end of the caption you mentioned Ostfriesland. :D The neighbour county Ammerland and Oldenburg is also tea land! At least in my parents household. Yes we drink 1 liter tea a day. :D
Ich trinke hier in Südniedersachsen auch sehr gern Ostfriesentee. Aber weil der (nach meinem Geschmack) nur mit ordentlich Kluntje und Sahne so lecker ist, gibt es ihn leider doch eher ausnahmsweise und meistens Kaffee. Ich will mir gar nicht vorstellen, wieviel Kluntje ich bei zwei Litern Tee zu mir nehmen würde.🙂 VG
@@marcop4136 Moin moin!
My German partner’s father was from the island of Sylt and his father (her grandfather) was the Pastor in the largest church there prior to WWII. As Pastor, his income was minimal. In other words, they were poor, but respected. Her father came from a family of six boys, three of whom died in the war. My partner’s mother, on the other hand, came from a wealthy family whose money came from shipping and imports. Her grandmother from this side of the family was British. Their family became rich through the East India Company and they drank tea! We owned a complete set of those “Friesischen” pottery tea pots, cups, plates, etc. We drank tea and not coffee. I haven’t watched your video yet, but we definitely had a ritual for preparing each pot of tea: boiling water was first swished around the tea pot to warm the porcelain, then the tea leaves were introduced and more boiling water was added to the teapot. The tea leaves were not constrained in bags. It was expected that they would settle to the bottom. Even the sugar used in the tea we drank was special. It was what I would call “rock candy”. Hard sugar in various sizes. The larger sizes were meant to be held between the teeth as you drank, the smaller sizes could be melted in the cup.
I enjoyed your video...I'm German descent and learning more about the culture... I also purchased a tea set ,silver from Etsy and also a tea strainer I got an exceptional deal on ...I was gifted an English tea pot so I use that. The tea ...they have a vendor in the United States that sells this Friesan Tea . .I think I'll purchase a bag and make it ,Thanks.
Grüner Tee und Roibuschtee fehlen noch. Brennesseltee hilft bei Blasenentzündung 😊
Ich lebe im Ammerland, wir sind die Nachbarn von Ostfriesland, hier ist Tee auch sehr beliebt und wir haben auch diese Teezeremonie.
hi ich komme aus bremen und dort ist die Teezeremonie ähnlich bzw. gleich wenn man guten Tee zu schätzen weiß.
To get a proper layer separation the cream needs to float, not be liquid: Rahm, not Sahne. Rahm is the stuff that floats on top of milk but that's hard to get nowadays, doubly so in supermarkets. A proper replacement that also floats is clotted cream, you can make that out of store-bought cream (needs to be organic, or better said without carageen, to properly separate). Right now you're getting creamy-astringent, then astringent-sweet, what you should get is creamy-astringent, astringent, astringent-sweet: Three layers.
As to the tea: What you got there is an East Frisian *style* blend, not East Frisian blend... only blends made in the area are allowed to be called that. Bünting should be available in the whole of Germany. British breakfast blends work in a pinch, but East Frisian is usually less Assam heavy and instead goes with more Ceylon and/or Darjeeling. Not really less in-your-face but with additional subtlety for the tea-only layer. The origin is not a true faux pas in the East Frisian mind, ultimately it's the cup that counts and not who mixed the leaves.
Then, last thing: Water. In the south where you are the water is probably quite hard while East Frisia has excessively soft water, which can severely impact taste. OTOH, fixing that can lead you quickly down a rabbit hole.
Oh, *last* last thing: You drank less than three cups (at least on video). It's a mortal insult to offer or drink less than three cups, reason is that back in the days sugar was expensive and less than three cups don't use up the Kluntje. Stirring the cup can range from mortal insult to pineapple on pizza, depending.
I'm born in North Frisia and I drink at least 1 litre of East Frisiean tea a day. Tea never had any effect on my regarding of sleeping...
Spaeking about East-Frisia:
There is an unwritten law, stating, that you have the right to stay in someone else's house, as long as there is "Klüntche" (Candis) in your tea! That way, you could figure out, how much the host likes you. The more "Klüntche" is in your tea, the more you are liked!
All the best:
Kevin2 (Your friendly youtube comment-section ranger :-)
Oh that’s great! Love this cultural insight.
Thank you for reminding me about tea in East Frisia. Years ago I wrote my dissertation about East Frisian villlage churches and visited almost every village in the area. Frequently, when I was photographing and measuring a church, someone would come over and ask, if I was the American researching the churches. Then they would invite me into their homes to tea, which was a great honor because the East Frisians are very friendly but are considered rather reticent by other Germans. You do need the East Frisian tea mix and very soft water to make it, and tea in East Frisia is somewhat stronger than you describe. The East Frisians say the tea is very relaxing, but the tea itself is very stimulating, The ceremony, however, unlike a coffee break, is really relaxing. Everything in the office, shop or home stops twice a day. Everyone comes and sits at a nicely set table until after at least the obligatory three cups of tea have been drunk, and the last teaspoon has been put in the last cup, Then the hostess stops offering to pour anymore tea, and everyone leaves the table.
How cool that you did a dissertation on East Frisian villages and experienced their tea! Loved reading about your experience, thanks for sharing.
The rock sugar is named "Kluntjes" in Friesland. As next You could try the "bergische kaffeetafel". It is somewhat similar but instead of tee coffee is served from the "Dröppelminna". Additional with "Waffeln, Kirschen und Sahne" or cream puffs with cherries, "Windbeutel" in german. (The very big cream puffs are also named Sturmsack 😉😂)
When you plan a visit to Ostfriesland you should consider a visit to Papenburg. It's a lovely little town just before you cross the border to county Ostfriesland. They have a museum that shows how peat collectors lived in the past, they exhibit old river ships in the canal that runs through the town. And something for Kevin (and the kids) is Otto Meyer Werft which constructs cruise ships and you can tour the factory. This is really cool and interesting.
Not to forget the derelict Transrapid track near Lathen!
@@V100-e5q Yeah, it was more fun when it was still running. 420 km/h was such a smooth ride. It's a shame they sold the tech to China instead of building new passenger lines in Germany and Europe.
Drinking tea for small illnessess is definitely a common German thing. :) Colds, stomach aches, you name it. My ma always had and still has a lot of tea varieties at home, and so do I. Peppermint and Rosebud were stables when I grew up. Chamomile and "Fenchel, Kümmel, Sternanis" were predominately for illnesses, but not exclusively. Now they are sooooo many varieties in stores I have a ton at home. XD Loose tea is defenitely the best though. There are small tea shops that sell excellent loose tea mixtures that are not sold in stores. I live in Hamburg and the best fruit tea I ever tasted came from one of these stores. Fun fact: I don't consider myself a regular tea drinker but I know a lot of people who don't drink any coffee at all.
Ah very cool to hear what it’s like in Hamburg!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Thank you. :) What I forgot to say is, that we also like to add honey and/or lemon juice to our teas if we are feeling unwell (or not). They are natural remedies, very soothing for colds and sore throats and taste great as well! Candis was not that common when and where in Germany I grew up (Brandenburg/Berlin).
True, tea is used more then any medicine in every household i know with sick/ ill children. Close second is chicken (and other) soups.
And if you have touth or gums pain or your voice is gone gargling with tea will help. I use chamomile to disinfect and sage for the voice or gargling with salted water. I use salt and thyme and oregano to inhale.
@@wibkesworld3208 Ah yes, the famous chicken soup! (Erasco, with the round little shell noodles for me) The only time in the year I go for canned soup. Funnily enough it has been proven that chicken broth is very good for colds and is not just a nostalgic placebo from childhood. But then again, who cares?! If it works, it works!
When you go to Hamburg, you should plan a longer stay and check out the Halligen. These little islands are so special and fantastic, you HAVE to see them. :)
Ooo okay! Thanks for the tip!
A Wattwanderung to a Hallig is also special and to my mind a lot of fun.
Yes! The Watt-Wanderungen were my favourite as a kid. There are lots of tours geared at familes, the tourist offices know all of the local ones, the free ones and even those not listed online.
But be sure to explore with a tour. The tides work differently out there, rather different from a normal beach coast, and being surprised out there is dangerous.
Hamburg has its own treats. Better schedule a stay in Ost- (e.g. Emden) or even Nordfriesland (Husum) to explore the tidal flats. From Cuxhaven a waggon ride to Neuwerk should be fun for a family. And don't let the Wattworms bite you! And don't forget a tour to Helgoland by ship.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife They are really special, in the autumn they will be flooded and you will have the Northern Sea right in your garden
so great that you have our traditional "Ostfriesische Rose" Teaset. I've got one too, cause I'm from Ostfriesland. We can sleep at night because we are used to it. My dad always said that he drunk tea as a baby. All kids love our tea because of the Kluntje. The waffles that you mentioned ususally have a lot of christmas spices in it. The rest of the year we traditionaly will have "Krinstuut" with it or "Teekuchen". But every village has different Traditions. I don't think any "Ostfriese" would use a tea bag or Darjeeling tea. We would always put the tea right into the tea pot and use a "Teebesen". You will still need a spoon that you put in your cup if you don't want another cup of tea. You got the "3 cups tradition" right. But like have seen our cups are very very small. (we usually don't make it so full as you did). So great to see our Tradition in your video. Thank you so much! It would nice to meet you if you will travel here.
Oh very nice, thank you for adding your traditions here! I do love the rose tea set - it’s so pretty!
Herbs for tea are best out of the own garden. I grow Pfefferminze, Zitronenmelisse, Wermut …. in my garden.
If you travel to Ostfriesland you must visit the restaurant poggenstool in Neuharlingersiel. It is very exclusive and the cook is an old friend of my dad, they used to work together ages ago
Correct, never ever Darjeeling. 😂 Even though I‘ve really enjoyed it during my time in London. 😉
Greatings from Moormerland. 😊
Hi Sara, I´m from Northern Germany and I have Herbal tea at work(almost 1 litre a day) called "Schietwettertee" (bad weather tea) and in the cold months I prefer Darjeeling tea at home.
But in the morning I need a strong cup of coffee to get started (like most germans).
In summer I often take some fruit tea cold (don´t take the "Icetea", its full of sugar).
In my garden I have "Zitronenmelisse" to dry as a herbal tea for a better sleep: a spoonful per cup, let it stirr for 10 minutes (maybe with a little bit of honey) and you will sleep very calm.
See you (all) in the next video.
have a nice day
Thank you for yet another very interesting video. Some additional information perhaps: East Frisia, along the North Sea coast of lower Saxony received its name from the old tribe of the Frisians, who, quite distinct from other people in the area, had their own language and culture. As their numbers are small they got gradually immersed into the larger states of The Netherlands (West Frisia) and Germany (East and North Frisia).
While the Dutch West Frisians have retained their language and you find bilingual road signs in the northern parts of the Netherlands, the German East Frisians have almost lost their Frisian but for just a few "language islands". The North Frisians on the other hand have still got a strong feeling of their own North Frisian identity. They live along Schleswig-Holstein's North Sea coast north of the Elbe River. By the way, a minor mistake in your video: Although the tea-drinking people you mention are "East Frisian", they live in the Northwest of Germany. So, a bit confusing: West Frisians live in the NE of the Netherlands, East Frisians live east of them in the NW of Germany.
Hi Sara, I`m really overwhelmed, how detailed and meticulous your investigations (for numbers, years, a. s. o.) have been made concerning this (extraordinary ?) matter 👍.
Thank you for creating your videos with such a big passion ! Liebe Grüße Klaus Z.
Thank you, Klaus, I think you’re the nicest guy on UA-cam! 😄
Ja, das mußt Du doch auch schon bemerkt haben, daß Sara ihre Hausaufgaben immer sehr ordentlich macht. Das kann aber noch nicht vom deutschen Einfluß kommen, das steckt einfach so in ihr. Kommt wohl eher von Erziehung/Ausbildung und entspricht auch wohl ihrem Charakter. Stimmt's Sara..?
@@yt-viewerfromger320 that’s very nice of you to say, thank you. I studied journalism in college so I learned how to research and write articles for newspapers. 😄
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Your answer, Sara, confirms my personal impression about your well done jobs and videos. Until now, I didn`t know anything about your former studies and college education, but it explains, why your videos often are based on such an expended research and facts. A big 👍and a 😘 for you.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife that explains a lot! your videos are edited so good and like little stories
When you're exploring East Frisia and the north in general you maybe wann do a video about the "Plattdeutsche Sprache" since it is the actual language spoken by the people in the north in private life. Driving through East Frisia and the islands you should listen to "Plattdeutsche Lieder" which are northern German folk songs similar to folk/irish folk songs in "Plattdeutsch". Check out some songs of groups like "Laway" or "Otto Groote Esemble" on UA-cam. They kind of transport the spirit and feeling of the people in the north sea coast of Germany. Best to enjoy on a story day or cosy winter's eve. LG, your followers from the North :)
That is sooooo cool that you went so much in detail with Ostfriesland, the area close to my old "Heimat"! Ostfriesen are an own people! Still caring about their very old traditions and speak their Low German (Plattdeutsch)! It is so lovely there, something you have probably never seen before! The landscape in Ostfriesland is kind of totally flat and it is always at least a bit windy... that's why you feel so free there! And the architecture: You will find there loads of these traditional Lower Saxony farm houses like everywhere in the German very north! Visit East Frisia, you won't regret and the impressions will stay forever!
Eine kleine Idee noch für euren Kanal fürs nächste Jahr: Es gibt einige typisch deutsche Frühlingsgetränke, die vielleicht für eure amerikanischen Zuschauer interessant wären. Maibowle bzw. Waldmeisterbowle (im Mai),
Erdbeerbowle (im Juni),
und Holunderbowle (auch im Juni)
bzw. hier auch Holundersaft.in beiden Versionen aus den Blüten und aus den Beeren.
Bei all den Getränken gibt es alkoholische und nicht-alkoholische, kindergeeignete Formen.
Noch schaffen könntest du dieses Jahr die deutsche Gelee- und Marmeladen-Kultur (Marmelade sagt der normale Deutsche zu Konfitüre; offiziell hat uns das die EU aber untersagt, denn Marmelade ist nur aus Zitrusfrüchten).
Schwarze Johannisbeere, Holunder, Quitte und Sanddorn (kannst du in Bayern nur fertig kaufen, denn der wächst da nicht) und Mirabelle, sind typisch deutsche Obstsorten.
There is another region in Germany with a lot of people drinking tea- it`s Nordfriesland (north frisia). That`s the region at the danish border. The best known island is Sylt. In north frisia tea is also drunken mixed with rum or mixed with a spirit called Geele Köm. Geele means yellow and Köm is a spirit made from wheat. They also drink a mixture of coffee with rum and a cream topping called Pharisäer(Pharisee) or hot chocolate with rum and a cream topping called Tote Tante (dead aunt).I guess, you will enjoy that too. And if you bake waffles with cream, try to cook some canned sour cherries and put them- hot as they are- on the waffles too. It`s very delicious.
If you visit Ostfriesland i recommend the island of Borkum. Your kids will love it.
Okay thank you!
Sarah- great video! Very well researched and well presented. You could be a tv presenter!
Thank you! 😍
Wonderful video! 😍😍By the way, tea bags are also a German invention.
I'm a total coffee drinker from 12 years old (coffee black and espresso), except when I'm sick. Was like that in childhood - there was tea (fruits or herbs) when we were sick, or in winter evenings, especially when we were in the cold all day. With it there was always "Teewurst" (so german😂) tea sausage with pickles. 🙋♂
I grew up in Southern Germany and like neither beer nor coffee. They haven‘t kicked me out yet because of it, but many Germans find this incomprehensible… My grandma used to ask me at every family Kaffee und Kuchen occasion whether I STILL didn‘t drink coffee, as if this was something you grow into when becoming a proper adult…
Funnily enough, my stepsister also doesn‘t like coffee…
I totally understand - Kevin doesn’t like tea or coffee either! Hahaha he drinks water, Shorles, beer and cocktails.
We have two daughters and after they left for school I usually prepare two big carafes of rosehip, mallow or peppermint tee and let them cool down.
This and a carafe of water is what is always available on the kitchen table for the girls (and me) to drink.
Easy, cheap, no sugar and everyone likes it.
I grew up with that and know a lot of other parents doing it.
Greetings from 🇨🇭
That’s a great idea! Sounds delicious!
If you come to Hamburg here are a few tips: visit the main church the Michel (Michaeliskirche) Kramer's Amtsstuben (apartments for the widows of former employees), make a harbor tour with a barge, go to the Miniaturwunderland (especially for the children, all 5 including the father)😂😂. Walk through the old Eltunnel.
Try a fishbrötchen down at the Landungsbrücken, buy "Franzbrötchen" in a bakery.
Great tips, thank you! And yeah - the kids - all 5 including the father. 😂😂
And take the ferry to Blankenese from Landungsbrücken. Where you get to by Underground train called "Hochbahn". Because at the harbor sections it becomes an elevated line just like the L in Chicago of the El in NYC. Walk around Blankenese to train you mountain legs. You could walk (climb) to the S-Bahnhof and get back by train to the city center where you probably are staying. You will then pass the more affluent areas of Hamburg like Othmarschen but also old industrial quarters in Altona (like Altoona in PA).
I love Tea and hardly drink anything else and in my travels to Germany I had often bought really good Teas. Thinking about this made me do a search on German Tea culture which is why I found this video. I had seen the Ostfriesland phrase on some Teas but never really researched it and I it so fascinating that the Ostfriesland has the highest Tea drinking public in the world. Then I went on German amazon and found Ostfriesland Tea blends and rock candy and the little spoon/ladle they use for the Tea ceremony and ordered it all - looking forward to try this. - Love your channel by the way - it's nice to be able to visit German vicariously.
You just got yourself another fan from East Frisia here! Should you ever visit East Frisia, you should definitely come to Emden and visit the tea museum in Norden - and the Thiele Tee shop! There are also many lovely small villages directly at the coast (like Greetsiel) which I am sure you'd really like.
You even own a proper East Frisian teapot! That's amazing! (By the way: The pattern is called "Ostfriesische Rose".)
Importing tea through Wuppertal-WHAT? Never heard of that one. The only Wuppertal I know is to the east of Cologne/Düsseldorf in the Bergischen Land. And definitely not a seaport.
I was asking her the same thing, half of my family and friends are frantically searching the net for a possible source. We came up with nothing. I grew up in Wuppertal Ronsdorf and I never heard of this. I just wish she would give us the source, I am so interested what's behind it.
Yes okay so a link to the sources is listed in the video description but this particular fact came from Wikipedia. I went back and checked it and there it was again - “the sea ports of Hamburg and Wuppertal Ronsdorf.” So this fact in the article is completely wrong! Can’t always trust Wikipedia.
Even when I was in school my classmates came and we drank a lot of tea, (giggeling included). I had about 160 different teas. Some require cream or milk, some require lemon, some don’t require something else at all… and now I require an ace of a dentist. I really like how you set the table and the historical information is very well done. Greetings from the north of Germany. 🇩🇪
Thank you for this video, it makes my Sunday morning even more enjoyable. :)
You mentioned “peppermint or spearmint.”
I got two plants for my balcony from a friend, one is spearmint and the other is Moroccan mint. They are very different. The spearmint really tastes like chewing gum, while the Moroccan mint tastes like what you know from mint tea. You can make your own tea from the leaves, or put a single leaf into a small glass of black tea.
Of course, that wouldn’t be very Frisian anymore, I suppose. :D
Nice to grow your own herbs for tea - that makes it so fresh!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife I admit, it’s not enough for having tea from it all the time, but I can use the leaves if I feel I want something very fresh and DIY. ;)
And a single leaf into a cup of tea is something that I can offer to make tea special for guests. :)
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife
moroccan mint is NANA Minze. so sweet !!.. ask special for that...
Our American family definitely still carries on the tea and coffee traditions of our ancestors. We always have a pastry/bakery treat with our tea time. There is an Oregon company where we order all of our organic loose teas.
Thank you for this informative video.
Coffee smells heavenly and then the taste for me is a real let-down.
I personally am a convinced and passionate tea drinker - my consumption of black or green tea would rival anybody in Ostfriesland - and I always feel that tea drinkers in Germany are discriminated against. In cafés, hotels, or parties coffee is always on free offer and you get a weird stare if you ask for tea instead. Then you are offered herbal teas... And then oftentimes tea is one soggy, sad teabag in a cup of lukewarm water.
In French there are two different words for tea: "thé" for the real stuff, and "infusion" for the herbal and fruit teas.
Most people assume that everyone drinks coffee. Many of my friends are tea drinkers too, at other people's houses I often grudgingly drink coffee as I don't want to be a bother. But I don't even own a coffee machine, I drink my tea black (I liked the sound of the rock sugar though), I can sleep soundly after having drunk two liters of black or green tea.
My mom always had us drink herbal tea, when we were kids, so until today I don't like it because it reminds me of the time I was ill as a child.
Fun fact: Before my son could read, he had to have his vision checked, telling the doctor the objects he saw on the chart. One of them was a cup, and he always said "tea" instead of cup, which had the doctor really confused at first.
Did you know that the country with the highest coffee consumption per capita was Finland?
What I often notice in Germany today is that the type of coffee people drink in Germany is becoming more and more varied: cappuccino, latte macchiato, espresso ... Italian, French and American influence, I assume.
I often hear that American coffee is way weaker than European ones. Have you changed the way you drink it since you moved here?
Greetings from a Bavarian black and green tea enthusiast (no connection whatsoever to Ostfriesland)
Yeah the smell is much better than the taste!
Trivia: Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a secular cantata called "Coffee Cantata" in which a single father berates his daughter for her coffee addiction. He threatens her that he won't let her marry unless she stops drinking coffee. But she is a smart young woman and makes a secret agreement with her fiancé that he will let her drink coffee again once they are married. - This shows that Bach was on the same side as Frederick the Great in mocking the coffee addiction of his fellow citizens of Leipzig.
Ah I love this! Thanks for sharing - now I wish I would’ve found this so it could be in the video!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Oh, and did you know that we Germans (indirectly) ended the slavery in the Caribbeans with our coffee and tea addiction??? Sugar was notoriously expensive then, so we cultivated an inconspicuous feed beet into the sugar beet and became one of the biggest sugar producers in the world. This made cane sugar almost unprofitable and many of the cane plantages in the Caribbeans went bankrupt - what in turn freed many slaves.
That same JS "saint" in classical (in a broad sense) music performed outside his job contract. For instance in the evening hours - and these performances were called "Nachtmusik". The word is popularized by Mozart's "Eine kleine" and its Roman/Latinised translation must be "nocturne". Well, JS played a lot of Nachtmusik in coffee houses.
@@hape3862 Augsburger? Wie schön.
@@hape3862 really ? How interesting !
"Ostfriesland: "Three times is Frisian law"
Things are similarly strict in Ostfriesland, the German stronghold of tea drinking. East Frisia teas are preferred in East Friesland, these are special blends of Assam and other types of black tea. Non-East Frisians can find out how the strong East Frisian tea is celebrated correctly during a tasting in the "East Frisian Tea Museum" in the small town of Norden. The numerous tea breaks that structure the daily routine of a tradition-conscious East Frisian serve less to quench thirst than to take a break from everyday stress, happily socializing.
The distinctive features of the East Frisian tea culture include "Kluntje" and "Rohhlepel". Ostfriesentee must have steeped for at least five minutes so that it gets the desired bitter strength. Before it is poured from the bulbous pot into the cups, which are typically decorated with a white and blue decoration, a piece of rock candy, a Kluntje, is placed on the bottom of each cup. The often richly decorated, silver Kluntje tongs, traditionally the most important gift for East Frisian confirmands, are used for this purpose. The cup is carefully filled with enough tea so that the “summit” of Kluntje can still be seen. The sugar lump has to crack, otherwise the water wasn't hot enough. In such - rare - cases, the person preparing the food is mildly reprimanded.
The East Frisian drinks his tea with cream, almost never with milk. With a special cream spoon ("Rohhlepel"), thick sweet cream is carefully lifted around the rock candy peak. The tea drinkers take their time and pensively watch how the cream slowly sinks and spreads to the "East Frisian Cloud". Stirring this structure is taboo. Instead, the mixture of tea, cream and rock candy is enjoyed unperturbed. In this way, the connoisseur can taste the three basic facets of the East Frisian attitude to life with one cup: Tein-bitter, candy-sweet and creamy-soft.
The teaspoon next to each cup is not there for stirring, but serves as a signaling device. Since the language-economical East Frisians do not like to use superfluous words, the tea drinker is refilled without asking until he puts the teaspoon in the cup without a word. As a rule, Frisian law applies, which means that each guest is expected to drink at least three cups."
Source (german): www.die-teeseite.de/tee-zeremonien.php
I love this! Thanks for sharing.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife It also shows how well fleshed out your video is. Good job and btw very nice tea and coffee sets. Loved them.
Our tea is not from Assam or such strange places. Its from Bünting in Leer 🤪🤪
The blue and white decorated pots and cups are used, but also the "Ostfriesische Rose". My grandma had an old "Service" of the "Ostfriesische Rose" and the cups are without a handle. You only filled the cup 2/3 the way you discribed it with the "Kluntje" and the cream.
And you didn't use a spoon then.
There ist an exception from the rule for the guests to drink at least 3 cups - priests and doctors can only drink one.
And when you serve the tea, you first fill your own cup to see if the tea hast the right colour.
interesting tidbit, there is a coffee substitute called Caro Kaffe or colloquially Muckefuck, which is still sold in stores but nowadays mostly associated with after ww2 Germany or GDR/DDR. if you want, give it a try! tastes too much like oats to me, but my grandma loves it
i love this video! so many interesting insights! i actually grew up in a tea drinking family. my parents are from the south of germany but moved to the north (hannover, so not the north north) after i was born and they are drinking ostfriesentee for breakfast every morning and also in the afternoon if they have cake. they are basically drinking coffee only if they are with other coffee drinking people. we never had a coffee machine at home! :)
and yes, in general tea is something you always suggest, if somebody is not feeling well, thinks they are getting a cold, or coming home on a cold winter day just to warm up. then most people would not pick black tea (that is usually more a thing for people who prefer tea over coffee), something herbal or fruity is preferred by most or especially camomile if you want to relax or are sick.
I worked on the island of Juist many years ago. The traditional East Frisian teacups were far smaller than those you get in normal tea sets, about half the size. The tea was almost tar-like in consistency and the Sahne was not actual cream but condensed milk. So yes, if you sat down to have tea with someone you would have to have two refills, but since the cups were very small, it wasn't as much as it sounded. But still very, very strong.
Condensed milk ist not traditional 🙈
Ah that’s a very good point! That the tea cups are much smaller.
As far as Kaffee und Kuchen is concerned, the polite numbers were two, never more than 2 cups of coffee and 2 pieces of cake. Children had Kinderkaffee, lots of milk and very little coffee. Growing up we had that meal daily to bridge the long gap between Mittagessen and Abendbrot. But we had tea too, drinking it with rocksugar and rum for the adults. In the Cafés it was served with lemon. Of course Fencheltee for an upset stomach, Hagebuttentee for the vitamin C, Kamillentee to sleep. Ah, the good old times!
Moin Sara! In Ostfriesland we eat Krüllkuchen or Neujahrskuchen to the tea. It ist a special kind of waffles.
In East Frisia we have "Teekuchen" (Teacake) that is what we eat the most with tea and of course some cookies. I never heard of waffles with cream. Maybe its Regional to some part of Frisia Idk.
Before coffee and tea, "the people" - commons and German kings - drank beer. Water was generally suspect, except when taken from a source beyond suspicion. That "safe" water, though, was often used to brew beer. Brewers would brew a first production from an amount of malted barley and hops that had a regular alcohol by volume (ABV) content and regular taste by today's standards. Siphoning off the beer would leave most of the residue (died off yeast) - draff in English or brewer's spent grain, or "bostel" in Dutch - in the brewing vessel and brewers would use that for a new round of brewing, potentially adding some high-carb ingredient.
There's a historic problem in that beer might be called "poor man's wine" in some circles and then what did these peeps drink - wine? Anyhow, in Dutch breweries they repeated the brewing from draff several times and ended with very low ABV beer for women or children (*). During the 80-years' Dutch independence war, under siege, a town's "town hall" (the wise guys) would debate what fraction of the grain reserve would be earmarked for bread, beer, beer for women and children, etc., as got documented in minutes of meeting. Going back to before coffee and tea, and the history of old-rich or old-nobility families, you'll see many of them have some financial interest in breweries, either as owners or as shareholders. A king's plea for people to go back to beer, away from coffee and teat, may have an explanation in that.
(*) Not too long ago, cheap apple or orange juice in the supermarket might have had an ABV of, say 05% to 1% through natural fermentation. Mothers feeding their toddler a baby bottle filled with such apple juice might see their child sleeping in the pram soon after - actually drunk. Sterilization prevents that fermentation at least for some time, but impacts the taste and raises energy consumption and price.
"How do you sleep at night?" - Caffeine doesn't really do much for me it seems. That also means it doesn't really wake me up.
Yes, same for me. Once your body is used to it it doesn’t make any difference.
@@karinland8533 I can't even say if it's that or if I'm kind of "immune". 🤷🏻♂️
@@ThePixel1983 I think there is a genetic predisposition as well🤔 that what I have learn from videos about people tasting there DNA
Wir trinken tatsächlich auch nur Tee und jedes Wochenende um 16Uhr sitzt die Familie zusammen und trinkt Tee und es gibt selbstgemachten Kuchen. Ich liebe es! Mein Lieblingstee ist grüner Tee.
Schön! Und wo liebst du?
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Wir wohne in der Nähe von Hamburg in Buxtehude ☺
You're planning on visiting East Frisia and Hamburg? Very good decision! One of my grandmothers came from there, so I claim to be a quarter Frisian myself. When I was little and still living in Bremen, I spent many summers there in this beautiful countryside. My favorite Frisian places are Greetsiel and the islands of Spiekeroog and Wangerooge. While visiting Hamburg, make sure to do a harbor tour on a small boat (Barkasse), instead of taking a large ship. At Jungfernstieg, take a "Kanalfahrt" instead of the touristy and less charming "Alterrundfahrt". The Kanalfahrt is, as far as I remember, popular among locals. A truly must-see in Hamburg is the "Miniatur Wunderland". With 3 kids and so many things to see and explore, visit early and plan to spend at least 3/4 of a day. It'll be a blast for all of you, I promise! Don't forget to film that experience :-)
In East Frisia we also like to eat Cake with our tea. There is a cake called Teekuchen which many others will now as Butterkuchen. Around New Year's Eve it's also common to eat Neujahrsröllchen.
"Drei mal ist Ostfriesenrecht" which refers to 3 cups of tea. You always drink 3 cups. If you want more, of course you can get more cups. 😄
Unfortunately I noticed you've used the wrong tea. An authentic tea ceremony is always done with authentic East Frisian Tea which has to be produced in East Frisia. (Bünting and Thiele for example) I'm very passionate about it 🙈
But I love seeing that you do the East Frisian Tea Ceremony!
I grew up in Germany and miss the German waffles. They are usually shaped like 4 hearts in one waffle, with the points in the center. They taste so good with strawberry sauce and/ or whipping cream. I visited my family in Ostfriesland, and love the old traditional blue and white dishes with the so called Zwiebel Muster (Onion design). Thank you the video.
So delicious! When Kevin and I first got married, my aunt gave us a heart shaped waffle maker and it was exactly as you described! We had no idea it was also popular in Germany.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife The heart shape is considered the standard waffle. The big rectangle ones are considered Belgian and have only grown more popular during the last two decades, I think.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife The heart shape is considered the standard waffle. The big rectangle ones are considered Belgian and have only grown more popular during the last two decades, I think.
we visited the east frisian islands a few times and I'm very much in love with them. 5 out of 7 are car free, It'sa long drive from southern Germany up north. So if you are considering leaving the car at home, maybe travel in steps. Go by train - or maybe fly from Munich north to Hannover or Cologne and go on by train. it'S not that far from there. Once you've arrived at the cost you can take the ferry. 6 out of 7 Islands even have an airport (for very small airplanes) so it's possible to take a plane - but it's also more expensive.. Due to the tides the ferry does only dirve on certain times a day, when the water is the highest. So we ended up staying in a hotel for one night and then take the first ferry . I could really recommend Borkum, which is the biggest. But there is also a lot to explore and do. But the ohters are also great. There is always a variety of sport activities for "free" (you have to pay the Kurtaxe), there are workshops in art and painting, hiking in the Watt, boat trips to seal islands and so on and so forth. You can always rent bikes and explore the island for yourselves.
I had east frisian tea with the most delicious cream puffs with jam and fruit.
Great tips for visiting the islands - thank you!
my demand for tea is my indicator to visit the doctor urgently.
😂😂 that’s a good indicator!
One thing they told me during my one and only tea ceremony:
In earlier times in East Frisia the lady of the house wouldn't go round the room to fill up everybody's tea cups. No, no, not as easy as that 👆*wagging-my-pointer-finger, here ;-)
Instead she would place them on a tray, take them to the kitchen, refill them there and return them to her room full of guests.
And how did she know which was whose? ?
🤔❔❔
- By placing the cups on the tray the same way everyone was seated around the table.
I somehow adored this story though I don't know how common the practice was...
Just wanted to give a small tea-tip for the summer :)
You can brew Hagebutten Tee (rose-hip 1L in total with 3 bags used) and make a small, but strong brew of Pfefferminz Tee (peppermint) (only 1 tea bag, but just enough water to fill your ice cube tray - if it's a bigger one, use 2 bags to get a really strong flavour)
Fill the cooled down peppermint tea in the ice cube track and freeze it overnight. Put the cooled down rose-hip tea in the fridge over night.
When it's getting hot and you want a nice, cold and refreshing drink, just pour a glass of rose-hip tea with peppermint ice cubes. your tea doesn't get watered down and it has a strong and refreshing tangy taste due to the rose-hip together with the freshness of the peppermint (of course, the more the ice cubes have time to melt,the more you can taste the peppermint).
Alternatively, you can just brew 1 L of tea with 2 bags rose-hip and 1 bag peppermint if you don't like ice cubes, or don't want to wait for the peppermint ice cube to melt into your tea.
I love to drink this in the summer.
This sounds SO delicious! I've definitely got to try this!
Putting sugar in tea is a big no no for me. Especially in herbal tees, at first it tasted weird but after a while I got the original flavor of the herbs and I could never go back to sugared tea.
Yeah I don’t like it in herbal teas either. Do you like it in black tea? It’s too bitter for me without sugar.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Yes, it is very bitter. But I like to poor milk (or cream) in it until it is not that bitter any more.
Totally interesting: when I worked in Germany, I used to have one cup of cappuccino in the morning in the office, and usually 1 cup later in the afternoon. But I also always made 1 whole tea pot with some of my favorite teas and drank that over the day. And when it was cold (in Winter) I often had hot tea in the evening at home. Since I moved to Canada (12 years ago) I think I might have had 5 cups of tea in total. I don't drink more coffee than in Germany, but definitely less tea. Why? To be honest: I have no idea
The "Kaffee und Kuchen" tradition is definitely very German! Here in the North, most people you visit for Kaffee und Kuchen will probably ask "Kaffee oder Tee?" and offer both.
For colds and all kinds of infections I also use different teas. Try a tea from sage leaves -- I dont fancy the taste but its very effective if you have a sore throat or a cough. Very concentrated camomilla tea can be used for minor inflammation on the skin. My grandma just put like a spoonful of boiling water on a camomilla tea bag and then put the hot wet tea bag on the inflamed spot.
I am hessian (a little south of central Germany). Through out my school years I was on a number of student exchanges to different countries. One of my biggest culture shocks was related to tea. I absolutly loved tea as a kid, however I had no yet aquired a taste for black tea. Here in Germany whenever I got offered a drink and asked for tea, I would be asked what kind and usually there would be a few teas to choose from. But everywhere else my request for tea would be met with a confused look and I'd be served black tea. It took me a while to figure out, that most countries seem to equate tea with black tea. And of course it's confusing that a delicate 13 year old would choose black tea over lemonade.
In my later teens my family went on vacation to Ostfriesland and my dad, being a huge fan of black tea, had to try the local tea tradition. That's when I discoverd my love for black tea aswell.
By the way, have you ever been to a Teeladen (tea store)? They should be right up your alley with your inner Oma and they encompass german tea culture very nicely.
I think you are the type of person for having tea herbs in the garden.
My grandmother has different plants in the garden she uses for tea: peppermint, lemon balm (Zitronenmelisse), stinging nettles (Brennnesseln), marigold (Ringelblume), sage (salvia officinalis, Echter Salbei), leaves of raspberries and blackberries (Himbeeren und Brombeeren), yarrows / bloodwort (Schafgarbe) . You can use the fresh leaves or blossoms (marigold) from direct from the garden. It tastes way more better than dried from a tea bag. You can mix it together, however you feel at the moment.
A friend of mine has stevia in his garden. You can brew some leaves of it with the tea to sweeten it. Sweet woodruff (Waldmeister) is also a herb you can use for tea. But you should not drink more than 3 cups a day.
Nettle stings are very good when you have problems with the bladder / urethra.
Yarrows and woodruff are good for headaches and migraine.
My most favourite tea is fennel-aniseed-caraway (Fenchel-Anis-Kümmel). When people offe me tea and I asked if they have fennel, I will get asked if I am ill.
It is actually good for the stomach and often made for very small children to support the digestion.
I think you’re right! What a great tip. I would like to start doing this. Thank you!
I found this a fun and very interesting video. Thank you!
I grew up drinking coffee and tea. As a very young child in the US, my friends were surprised that my Italian parents gave us a cup of warm milk with a small shot of espresso often. My love of coffee grew from there. But we often had tea in the afternoons of for illnesses. Then I moved to Germany where I fell in love with the Kaffee (oder Tee )und Kuchen Zeit. Though I stick to one or two cups of coffee a day, I drink pots of tea throughout the day, usually herbal. But especially on cold winter days.
Ich kenne das hier in Deutschland das man zum Frühstück Kaffee trinkt und zum Abendbrot Tee trinkt,meistens Pfefferminz oder Hagebutte Tee das kenne ich so schon als Kind. Wenn wir krank 🤧 waren dann haben wir Kamilletee oder Fencheltee bekommen,das hat uns nie geschmeckt aber geholfen hat’s 😝🤣
Im Sommer wenn wir schwimmen gegangen sind haben wir dann immer schwarzetee gekocht mit Zitrone 🍋 und Honig 🍯 und dann kalt gestellt in Kühlschrank und dann mitgenommen,das war lecker 😋 und erfrischend
Fun fact: When I was doing my apprenticeship at a freight forwarding agency, one of our regular transports was bringing water (special water) to a tea testing location. We had regular transports between Hamburg (I live in Hamburg) and both Leer and Emden. Btw, when you visit Hamburg and want to have someone help you navigate the city, let me know.
yes we would never drink our tea outside of Ostfriesland because of the different water. I know an older woman who always takes the water from here with her when she travels
As an Ostfriese by nature with lots of tea drinking practice: the right water is absolutely crucial!
@@jelster1208 Indeed the East Frisian tea is exactly matched to the water there. - In the Alps, I would add a touch of sea salt to the water. A trick that also makes coffee even better.
When I sum it up. I come to round about 500 liter Peppermint tea plus 150 liter of coffee over the year. Thanks for your video which made me think about it. Funny.
Moin, und liebe Grüße aus(Dornum)Ostfriesland 👋
Well according to black tea..
It can make you very agile when you let the black tea steep short time = round about 5 minutes
BUT
Black tea also makes you calm/almost sleepy when you let the black tea steep long time = round about 8-10 minutes...although it will become a bit more bitter so you have to put a bit of honey into it when you don´t like the bitterness
Just saying because you mentioned you can´t sleep at night after consuming black tea at the afternoon..Well then obviously you drank the short time steeped one.
Ah okay! Thanks Michael, that’s good to know. I’ll try steeping it for longer.
I make tea by using a simple glass tea pot and a serving pot for the table. First I heat up both pots with hot water. Then I prepare the tea in the glass pot, then sift it into the serving pot. You need less tea as the swimming leaves can extract their aroma much better. By sifting the tea it will not become too bitter.
East Frisian here. What a lovely video! It is so nice to see you try and enjoy this important part of our culture! About the tea itself, there is a strong debate among locals about which tea blend is the best, but it is generally a bit stronger. Darjeeling is a lighter black tea (that I personally prefer). The taste of both very much depend on the water. East Frisian water is very lime-deficient, lime makes it taste different. That is why my father will switch to coffee when he leaves East Frisia.
Oh very good to know about how the lime in the water makes it taste differently. Thanks for sharing!
You might show the tea-shelf in your local Edeka to underline our inclination towards herbal infusions, both as drinks and remedies. It is, by the way, pretty common to give toddlers and pre-schoolers cold, unsweetened peppermint tea (or rosehip or other dried fruit infusions) instead of fruit juices (and no halfways educated German mother allows her kids to have sodas these days, Fanta is a HUGE exception on special occasions!).
You know, I actually did get some video shots of the tea shelves and forgot to put them in!! Maybe I'll do another separate video of herbal tea culture here in Germany, since it's quite it's own thing.
I have to agree on the cold unsweetened tea as a drink for children. Growing up (in fact from pre-Kindergarten all through High school) I carried a bootle of fennel tea mixed with some apple juice for natural sweetness with me ☺️
We learned in a tea museum: The cream you pour in from the side of the cup and if you stir, you do it counterclockwise to stop the time and enjoy, and the KLUNTJE is to sweeten what's left on the bottom of the cup, it's usually very bitter 😇🤗❤
Ah right! I forgot about the counterclockwise stirring to stop time. I'm glad you added this part!
I was born in Oldenburg in Lower Saxony (right on the border to East Frisia) and we drank tea twice a day. My grandma always served it along with Butter-Spritzgebäck or Zwieback with butter and marmalade.
Sadly, I kind of forgot the tea culture when I moved to Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg) as an 18yo. The people here in Heidelberg prefer coffee over tea and herb tea over black tea. The tea brand I used to drink with my family isn’t available here. East Frisian tea is usually not a very strong black tea and there are a lot of differences in taste between brands and how you serve it. After my grandparents past away, I never tasted their unique tea flavor again. I tried to replicate it, but no tea tastes like granny’s tea 😢
It might be the water that changes the taste.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I am from Bavaria, but I love Ostfriesentee with cream and Kluntje (sugar rocks)
Oh do you! That’s so neat, I like how you tried out culture from a different part of Germany. We do love living in Bavaria! It’s so beautiful here.
Most important rule for Kaffee und Kuchen: Draussen nur Kännchen!
Yes the tea as a remedy is something we defenetly use a lot. Btw. since you guys have a garden, a lot of these herbs can be grown. My grandma has mint, sage, thyme and lemon balm in hers and puts fresh leaves in her tea every morning and evening.
Another little trick with herbal teas is honey. Since honey works anti bacterial and anti inflamatory its good in combination with those teas and it also makes them easier to drink for the kids. When I have a cold, I consume around 4-5l of tea a day and run through 1 kg of honey over the week. But it helps really good.
Good to know how much tea you drink a day when you’re sick! That’s helpful.
I want a bouncing sugar bowl like that too!🍚
Ich möchte auch so eine springende Zuckerdose!
Je veux aussi un sucrier qui saute !
Jag vill också ha en sån där hoppande sockerskål!
Nice to see that you enjoy our eastfriesian Tee culture. I`m eastfriesian and half iranian. That means two Tea cultures united :) so i had my three cups of tea while i was watching your awsome video. There are a lot of details to the tea ceremony and they differ from town to town or from village to village. I`m from Emden and i learned from my grandmother the importance of drinking Tea and so the story continues. It ist even a sensual ritual where Poetry meets attitude. We use less cream in the Tea and the cream is filled in counterclockwise to turn the time back, as we say. We do not eat Waffeln with the Tea. In early days it was orininally raisin bread with butter. But otherwise everything is allowed because Teatime is the time you need to relaxe and enjoy. Thanks for your Video ;)
Wonderful to hear about your traditions as a Iranian-Frisian - how cool! Thank you for sharing.
There is no better tea than a nice Chie Late.
I prefer coffee, but also like tea like Earl Grey.
When you let the tea steam for over 6 minutes, then it becomes relaxing and you can sleep very well. This is because the teain (similar to caffeine) becomes lesser and another ingredient in the leaves of the tea become higher.
Ich bin zwar eher Kaffeetrinker, aber meine Mutter hat früher immer schwarzen Tee mit ein bisschen Zitronensaft zum Frühstück gemacht. Kräutertees trinke ich auch immer, wenn ich kleine Beschwerden habe, auch während ich Corona hatte, haben Salbei-, Zitronenmelisse-, Pfefferminztees usw. sehr mit dem trockenen Hals geholfen.
Thanks! I learned a lot and I am still learning as I am researching now about the tea and coffee topic. Where did you find the information about Wuppertal?
Il'd like to read those informations as I was born and raised in Wuppertal, but never ever heard about it. What I know is, that a guy from Wuppertal (NRW) went to South Africa and namend an area "Wupperthal" (< with an "h"), which is very famous for Rooibos Tea now.
Also I do know Wuppertal Rondsdorf, of course as I lived in this area in NRW, but it seems that there was another "Wuppertal-Ronsdorf" at the North Sea ports (~ 800km away from "my" Wuppertal!?) as written and accordings in the english (!) Wikipedia version, but without further informations and a empty Wiki page link!? Couldn't find these information in th german version!
So, I never heard about THAT "Wuppertal-Ronsdorf", which leaves me kind of confused, to be honest :-) Anyway ... thanks for the video!
P.S: Did your guest-family like the cups I sent and had a chance to use them, yet? According to the video: Do they prefer to drink tea or coffee from those cups? :-)
Maybe it's Rodenkirchen or Roonkark in the lokal dialekt.
Greetings from Lower Saxony ❤ I'm not from Ostfriesland, but I just like tea, I don't like any coffee ☺ My favourite is fennel tea, it's also good for colds or stomach issues
Das unterschreibe ich. Und grüße auch aus Niedersachsen (südöstliches 😃)!
Moving to England I had visitors bring herbal and fruit teas from home as it was difficult to get teas without black tea mixed in. England was Black tea heaven, but sparse on other types. Lovely video!
Super recherchiert und toll kommentiert (präsentiert)
We always have “Kluntje” or Kandis with our freasian tea. Even many Turks love Friesentee.
Oh cool! Didn’t know that Turks also love it.
Apart from the quality content you present in this video, you and the setting look amazing!
What a lovely video, Sara! You´re really taking in so much about Germany, and it´s wonderful to see it all through your eyes. And I so want a cup of tea now, you made it look really delicious! I remember my first Ostfriesen Tee. I was hooked, it´s just so good. And I´m a die hard coffee drinker. I literally go to bed feeling happy that I can drink coffee again soon.
Thank so much, Lauren! Maybe one day we can do a holiday together one of the isles of Ostfriesland!!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife I bet you‘d really enjoy it there, you‘re all so open for new experiences!
Hallo zusammen. In meiner Familie war/ist Tee eher als Gift bekannt. Oma sagte immer : so krank kann uch gar nicht werden das ich Tee trinke. Das wir keine Rabatte auf Kaffee bekamen wundert mich immer noch. Ich trinke nur Kamillentee wenns mir schlecht geht ider ich Zahnschmerzen habe. Kaffee geht immer, Espresso, Cappuccino normaler Kaffe - egal. Interessant ist, ich trinke auch kaffe kurz vorm ins Bett gehen und schlafe ganz normal. Vielleicht weil uch schon als Kind an Kaffee gewöhnt bin. Ohne Kaffee - ohne mich. Kaffeeunser sei dank 😁
lovely, well researched video. I wanted to give a recommendation for your trip to the north. I don't want to take sides which is better - North Sea or Baltic Sea - but they are vastly different and both worth the trip, maybe even in a long 2-3 week roadtrip in summer if you got the time for that. Its not just the bodies of water that are different but also the landscapes and the people! maybe stay a few days at Hamburg, and then a week at the North Sea and a week at the Baltic Sea.
especially since you're traveling with kids, its noteworthy that due to the tides, there's not always water to swim at the North Sea coast but you can go on some "Wattwanderungen" (walking through the miles of "mud" that says behind after the tide) and learn some stuff about the "Watt", which is super funned interesting for the kids and relaxing for parents.
The Baltic Sea is great for beach days/weeks (no tide here :) ) and cycling. With kids its great to visit the "Karls Erdbeerhof" near Rostock where you can pick strawberries, go on rides, eat nice foods and some candy (everything is strawberry themed oc).
both seas got the best islands, so its best to stay just on a few of them. Noteworthy there are Sylt and the eastfrisian islands in the North Sea and Usedom, Rügen, und Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea.
My personal favourite is the (Fischland) Darß which is a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. Definitely recommend going there, it's beautiful every time of the year. Its really small so you can basically bike everywhere. The landscape is truly special with some very unique protected beaches and woods. And they're also got some tea culture there and awesome art galleries. It's perfect for family holiday.
What great tips! Thank you so much. Now I really want to visit the north.
I started drinking tea again since I'm not eating from 8 to 18 Uhr on work from home days. (At home I can suffer silently 😉)
What a nice video again ! While watching it I kept sipping my daily litre of frisian tea and found it very appropriate.
The interesting thing about the effect of tea is that the longer it steeps the more calming it is so if you drink it in the afternoon you should let it sit for about 6-8 minutes in order to let you get some sleep at night.
I learned about the tea ceremony from my parents when they lived on the island of Sylt which is in northern frisia. The frisian area from north to east including the part that lies in the Netherlands shares the same habits when it comes to tea. Many captains from cargo ships used to live on the frisian islands and they brought the tea home from their journeys.
My mother also owned a frisian tea set like the one you have so I was very much reminded of her watching you .
I think tea is very common in the whole north of Germany which explains why there are quite a few lovely little tea shops up here that sell a large variety of black teas, fruit and herbal teas( of course not in tea bags!) as well as all kinds of utensils you need to make a good tea, tea sets and gifts.
My generation grew up with the knowledge of which tea to use for what minor disease : chamomile for a sore stomach but also to gurgle with of you have a sore mouth - it heals anything. Peppermint for colds, sage tea for gurgling helps with a sore throat ( and tastes awful to a child) and my mother's specialty was black tea without sugar against nausea. Furthermore peppermint tea as well as fruit tea ( Hagebutten oder Malven ) used to be what kids would get at youth hostels (Jugendherbergen) when they went on a school trip.
Thank you for taking the time and energy to make a video in spite of your demanding every day life, I always enjoy it as my Sunday treat !
This is such a helpful comment! Love all that you added about herbal teas. I think I need to do an entire separate video on herbal teas in Germany. And I didn't know until the comments on this video, that if you steep the tea for longer, it lessens the caffeine! How amazing!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Actually, there are certain compounds in black tea that counteract the effects of caffeine and they are released, when you let it steep longer.
So, the caffeine doesn't decrease, it's effects are only postponed.
I also prefer tea over coffee, especially herbal tea. When I'm sick I usually grab a cup of hot tea before taking any medication. Really hot sage tea for a sore throat, ginger for a cold (makes you sweat out all the gunk), although I would go for camomile for stomach problems, not peppermint.
Ooo I’ll have to try sage tea for a sore throat!
And Fenchel-Anis-Kümmel when there is any Stuck gas anywhere…
For the stomach I love "Fencheltee".
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Yes, better is to gargle with the sage tea when you have a sore throat
And don't forget North Frisia. Same there. ;)
I was always told Bremen was the coffee centre of Germany
Yeah it was an important city through which tea was imported, so there is a tea culture there also. But it’s not near as popular as it is in Ostfriesland.
Waffels: You should try "Waffeln mit heißen Kirschen" wherever you drink your afternoon tea in Germany. Preferably with freshly whipped cream, not the factory made fake rattle can variety. So good!
I am not familiar with Bavaria that much. But it should have spread there too.
Wow that sounds so delicious!!
Hallo ! Das war ein schönes und Interessantes Video ! Wenn ich in Hamburg bin gehe ich immer zur Kaffeerösterei in der Speicherstadt ,da gibt es wirklich alles erdenkliche was Café betrifft ! Beim Tee ist es so das viele auch einen Schuss Rum dazu geben ! Wenn Fichten in der Nähe sind kann man aus den Nadeln einen Schmackhaften Tee machen ! Natur pur 🤗 Liebe Grüße
Wow, you really dug into this topic. It's wonderful to see, how much thought you give into exploring different cultures.
I'm not sure how fond Ostfriesen are of it, but a third option between a tea bag and having the tea loosely swimming, is a Tee-Ei (not to confuse with a chinese tea egg).
Thank you! I think a Tee-ei might be popular among East Frisians because many of them have commented that they use one, so you’re right on!
Ostfriesen lassen ihren Tee lange ziehen und er hat dadurch deutlich weniger Koffein. Deswegen kann man ihn auch abends trinken. Ostfriesischer Tee ist so kräftig, damit er das Moorwasser überdeckt, dass es dort früher als Trinkwasser gab. Deswegen hat Tee sich dort so durchgesetzt. Lieber schwarzer Tee, als schwarzes Wasser…
Moorwasser hat eine Menge Tannin und wenig Kalk.
@@V100-e5q ich sage ja nicht, dass es ungesund ist. Es schmeckt halt scheußlich und der starke Tee hilft
@@an7855 So hat manche Tradition ihre Urspünge in sehr realen Umständen.
@@V100-e5q ich finde sowas spannend
Regarding the Rock Sugar: It is not supposed to dissolve completely. You are actually supposed to drink at least three cups, using the same "klüntche"
Ah okay! That makes sense.
Just a separate small mention:
I love coffee and drink it nearly daily, not seldom 2 big cups, sometimes even 3 big cups a day, yet I do have 20+ different kinds of tea at home and do love to drink them. If it's the middle of the night and I'm cold and want something warm, there isn't anything better than a nice warm cup of tea (and sometimes you just don't want coffee for some reason or another xD) (like 80% are fruit teas xD)
im not a coffee drinker but somtimes i like some "muckefuk". i got all my herbs in my garden for all the teas. for the waffle maker i recommend one were you can change the plates, so you can do different shapes or use it as a grill or sandwich maker
Great tip! Thank you.
Thank you for your very informative video! I always drink black tea with cream in the morning. I didn't even know that there is a place in the world where this is tradition. I'm Austrian from the region "Steiermark" and I think our culture is a lot like the Bavarian culture. I guess our culture is more Bavarian than a lot of other german regions culture and so is our language/ dialect. From what I see most Austrians or especially people from my region drink coffee or black tea in the morning, while kids like "Kakao". Ma dad and my grandma drank a coffee-subsitiute that is made out of grains. Most Austrians do not put milk in the tea, but in their coffee. I put either milk or cream in it, but no sugar. I drink a lot of herbal teas in the afternoon, like a liter or something.. My grandmother collected al kinds of herbs and made a huge pot of herbal tea with a lot of different herbs in it for the whole family to drink throughout the day.... I love the "Kaffee und Kuchen"-Tradition in Austria. That's something we enjoy especially with friends that come over on Sundays or when I'm invited to a friends place.
There is nothing better then a hot tea after a day outside in the snow!
Totally agree!
I guess I drink tea to 80%, milk-coffee (Milchkaffee) to 20%. One house further I have a great tea-store run by an old Indian since 1982. He goes to India two or three time each year, visits tea-plantages and orders there for his store in Hamburg. He offers excellent Indian green, black and fruit teas, also mixtures and Chinese or Japanese sorts.