Billy Tea Sign - Queensland Museum Collections Online
The expression ‘billy tea’ is used for any type of tea boiled in a billy, traditionally including a gum leaf thrown in for extra bush flavour. The Billy Tea Company, however, founded in 1881 by Scotsman James Inglis, became a leading brand of tea considered perfect for …
ODE TO BILLY TEA - Pauline Conolly
Source – The Queenslander, Apr. 31 1932. Now there is another kind of billy swinging altogether, To ensure that the tea leaves sink to the bottom, the boiling billy should be hurled over one’s head in a full circle; preferably three times. As in taking off on a bike, this requires momentum. To avoid a nasty scald it’s vital to make a ...
Billycan - Wikipedia
To boil the billy most often means to make tea. This expression dates from the Australian gold rushes and probably earlier. [6] "Billy Tea" was the name of a popular brand of tea long sold by Australian grocers and supermarkets. [7] Billies feature in …
Drinking Billy Tea at Lukes Bluff Lookout - 2 Aussie Travellers
2016年11月28日 · There is now however a tea branded as Billy Tea that is blended in Australia and makes a pretty decent cuppa either over the fire or with the kettle. While it’s not grown here it’s an Indian tea blend that is most likely very similar to the original.
The famous Billy Tea : with the distinctive flavour - Catalogue ...
Advertising for Billy Tea. Features tea leaves being poured from the distinctive Billy Tea box into a white teapot with a yellow rose design on it. The Billy Tea box is orange and blue with a picture of a man talking to a kangaroo holding a billy can in one paw and a swag on a stick over its shoulder with the other paw, with the caption "Hullo ...
Billy Tea Bagged Tea (100 bags) - Amazon.com
Billy tea was first introduced in 1888. Its unique packaging capitalized on the Gold Rush spirit. It's the real Australian flavour, a strong black tea millions of Aussie wake up to daily.
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Cup of Tea? - National Library of Australia
One of the key early differences is the use of the ‘billy’, a lightweight metal can used most commonly for boiling water or cooking over a campfire. To advertise its tea, the Billy Tea Company used on its packet an image of a swagman, or ‘swaggie’, boiling his billy.
Billy-tea, strong, black and sweet and tasting of smoke is a …
Billy-tea, strong, black and sweet and tasting of smoke is a familiar beverage to most Australians, but is especially familiar to Private (Pte) Allan 'Snow' Evans (right) who is sipping morning tea during time out from work on the defences in Korea.
AUSTRALIAN BILLY TEA - Seven Seas Tea
Early Australian settlers brewed their tea in a Billy; a metal can with a wire handle, filled with water and suspended over an open fire. When the water boils, it is removed from the fire with a forked stick, and a fistful of tea leaves are added. This is then left to brew for a few minutes.
Food-Info.net : What is ‘Billy-tea'
A billy is a metal can with a wire handle. This is filled with water and suspended over a fire. When the water boils, it is removed from the fire, and a handful of tea leaves are added. This is then left to brew for a few minutes.