Brewing Tea the Yiddish Way

Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz show you how to prepare tea the old־fashioned way and how East-European Jews used to drink it (hint: you need a sugar cube). In Yiddish with English subtitles.

[@jennifervonpickartz2428]

I thank G-d for You. Love, Light, Peace, Music and Joy

[@mwbright]

I haven't heard Yiddish in half a century, and I'm near tears.

[@DeweyLauridsen5000]

Well, Mrs Schaechter made me smile again! Putting the sugar on the moyle , oy, you will need to nosh to cut the sweetness. One of my first things I learned from "Yiddish word of the day" was glazele tae, and kizzel with a zyskite! A dank and zyt gazunt! Dewey

[@markrogowin7462]

Family conversations mit a glazele tee. What could be more enjoyable.

[@toyva007]

Amazing video, made me smile: the music and the samovar :) In fact, that's the way you make tea in Russia in general, not only the Yiddish version :) after it brews for a couple minutes, you can add currant leaves, raspberry leaves, linden blossom, thyme, or any other herb of your choice for a slightly different flavor. You can also dip one side of the sugar cube in your cup very quickly, so it's easier to bite.

[@MsChanale]

The painting is in fact "Old Vilnius. Tea party at the Gaon", by Eduard Gurevich and not Stepan Nesterchuk who has painted many a still life with samovars but without Jews

[@yvettemoore1228]

I do everything up to the sugar cube. I'll put maybe a shtisel honey into the tea and a slice of lemon. Or just a drop of milk.

[@m0nkeyboot]

Well my Yiddishe Family used to put the tea in the strainer and slowly pour the hot water through the leaves. As did everybody I knew in my childhood.

[@kc-wr1ui]

I just love being a Jew
Yay I can understand this Yiddish is my first language

[@moritzcruse6310]

Wow wunderbare Show :)

[@stuffguy6664]

So.. This is what my great grandma sounded like huh..

[@Lev1ns0n]

If your great-grandma spoke Yiddish with an American accent

[@shalvahmb617]

😊

[@intarc0giotto]

can you make tea with a hot water boiler on shabbat? i meant these things that have hot water in a container and keep it at a set temperature?

[@alexg9896]

Gino, to make tea on Shabbat you need two cups. This is the procedure: pour hot water from the urn into the first cup, then pour the water from the first cup into the second cup and put a tea bag into the water. This is done to cool the water a bit so it does not cook the tea (since cooking is not allowed on Shabbat).

[@markrogowin7462]

@@alexg9896 The best is to make tea essense before Shabbos and use the liquid by pouring some into hot water. But your way is accepted.

[@patrickfaas2329]

I remember the days before we had modern vacuum insulated thermal teapots from which the third cup of tea can still burn your mouth and that can keep tea hot enough to drink for nearly 24 hours, but we always used a tea cosy or tea light. Bare china? Really?

[@ALWhite-ub1ye]

I was taught to use a bare chinyk, but to keep it on the crown on the samovar so the smoke would warm it.

[@louis-vd3ur]

This isn't exclusively yiddish tea culture. Behavior like this has caused frustration with Ashkenazim who think because they do something, it's "theirs" . This is the typical way of brewing and enjoying tea. Loose, in a glass, with a lump of sugar in your mouth. Seriously, the chutzpah. Next you'll be saying the rebbe crafted the first Samovar....