"Growing up in Chennai, I felt like I could tell time based on when hot drinks were served in our house. The city is famed for its coffee, blended with chicory root and poured into glasses in dramatic foot-long streams, but ours was a tea household. My parents' Guzzini mugs would come out promptly at 6:30 a.m. and once more at 4 p.m., the time I, with my mandated mug of milk,"
"looked forward to most of all because it meant an accompanying packet of shortbread wasn't far away. We'd sit together with our basset hound, Droopy, in the orange-tiled backyard, my grandmother too, when she was still alive, drinking our drinks, dunking our biscuits, discussing what dinner might be (the dog's standing request was chicken gizzards). The combination of spiced milky tea and cookies will always be the taste of home to me. These tea-laced sandwich cookies capture that memory precisely."
Household routines in Chennai centered on hot drinks served at set times, with spiced milky tea replacing the city's famed chicory coffee in this family. Tea was served in Guzzini mugs at 6:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., often paired with shortbread biscuits. Family members, a basset hound, and a grandmother gathered in an orange-tiled backyard to drink, dunk biscuits, and discuss dinner. In Southern India the beverage is commonly called masala tea and typically contains ginger and cardamom. Bakers are advised to use finely ground tea from tea bags or crush whole-leaf tea before adding it to melting butter to avoid leaf strips in the dough.
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