 | 1836 - 600 pages
...baskets with sievebottoms placed over pans of charcoal. The dried tea was then transferred, in quantities of a few pounds each, to a great number of cast-iron pans, imbedded in chunam over furnaces. At each pan stood a workman stirring the tea rapidly round with his hand (to prevent... | |
 | 1836 - 528 pages
...baskets with sievebottoms placed over pans of charcoal. The dried tea was then transferred, in quantities of a few pounds each, to a great number of cast-iron pans, imbedded in chuñara over furnaces. At each pan stood a workman stirring the tea rapidly round with his hand (to... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 pages
...damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn, were drying in baskets with sieve bottoms, placed over pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were...each, to a great number of cast-iron pans, imbedded in chunara or mortar, over furnaces. At each pan stood a workman stirring the tea rapidly round with his... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1840 - 468 pages
...kee, cheem chunn, iva chunn, yock chunn, and cuphonous names, which may hereaficr be as well known to pans, imbedded in chunam or mortar, over furnaces....tea rapidly round with his hand, having previously a:ldcd a small i;iianlity of turmeric, in powder, which, of course, giue the leaves a yellowish or... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1840 - 466 pages
...damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn were drying in baskets with seive bottoms, placed over pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were then transferred in portion* of a few pounds each to a great number of east iron pans, imbedded in chunnm or mortar, over... | |
 | sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan (8th bart.) - 1845 - 840 pages
...damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn, wore drying in baskets with sieve bottoms, placed over pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were...each to a great number of cast-iron pans, imbedded in chuiiam or mortar, over furnaces. At each pan stood a workman, stirring the tea rapidly round with... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 pages
...damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn, were drying in baskets with sieve bottoms, placed over pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were...pounds each, to a great number of cast-iron pans, * Father Le Compte maintains that the color and peculiar qualities of green tea are derived from the... | |
 | 1848 - 392 pages
...damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn, were drying in baskets with sieve bottoms, placed over pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were...to a great number of cast-iron pans, imbedded, in chunain or mortar, over furnaces. At each pan stoo;ia workman stirring the tea rapidly round with his... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1856 - 844 pages
...had been damaged by the floods of the previous autumn, were seen drying in baskets, placed over hot pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were then transferred, in portions of a few pounds each, to a number of cast-iron pans, which are placed over furnaces. They were next stirred rapidly round with... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 258 pages
...damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn, were drying in baskets with sieve bottoms, placed over pans of charcoal. The dried leaves were...chunam, or mortar, over furnaces. At each pan stood a work(1) " The Chinese," by Sir John Francis Davis, 1840. man stirring the tea rapidly round with his... | |
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At each pan stood a workman stirring the tea rapidly round with liis hand, having previously added a small quantity of turmeric in powder, which of course gave the leaves a yellowish or orange tinge ; but they were still to be made green. For this... 
