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zavarka ( russian : заварка) is prepared: a quantity of dry tea sufficient for several persons is brewed in a small teapot. then, each person pours some quantity of this concentrate into the cup and mixes it with hot water; thus, one can make one's tea as strong as one wants, according to one's taste. sugar
with the samovar ready for tea according to william pokhlyobkin , tea in russia was not regarded as a self-dependent beverage; thus, even the affluent classes adorned it with a jam, syrup, cakes, cookies, candies, lemon and other sweets. this is similar to the archaic idiom "чай да сахар" (tea and sugar...
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