How to make a smashing cup of tea

Tomorrow is Alzheimer’s Tea Day, but not everyone can make the perfect cuppa. Barbara Scully reveals how to succeed.

MY dear mother says that “a good cuppa tea can cure almost everything from a broken heart to a bad flu”. I’m a coffee girl most of the time but I must start and end my day with a good cup of tea. I have been married 15 years and it has taken me that long to train my dear husband how to make a proper cup of tea. But it was worth it because there is nothing like being handed my late night cuppa, perfectly brewed without having to heave myself off the sofa!

So what makes the perfect cuppa? I did do a bit of research on Twitter (where else) and have to say that most of the twitterati like tea more or less the way I do. So here is the scientifically checked out perfect cup of tea — as in 8 out of 10 twits who expressed a preference, etc.