brick-tea

The bales of tea were stacked up in huge piles; it was Chinese tea of poor quality compressed into cakes like bricks, and therefore called "brick-tea."

From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

The ingredients are implied in the name – a piece of brick-tea is put into a pot of water and allowed to boil a few minutes, then about half as much milk as water is added, and the whole brought to boiling point again.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

'They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawur.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

Now we want two pounds of brick-tea and two pounds of tobacco.

Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Walter Paget 1867

Large quantities are brought into Siberia, but "brick-tea" never enters into the computation of Kiachta trade.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

The importation of brick-tea is undiminished, and some authorities say it has increased.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

The tents being insupportably noisome, I preferred partaking of the buttered brick-tea in the open air; after which, I went to see the shawl-wool goats sheared in a pen close by.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

So I became fond of brick-tea boiled with butter, salt, and soda, and expert in the Tartar saddle; riding about perched on the shoulders of a rough pony, with my feet nearly on a level with my pockets, and my knees almost meeting in front.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

"They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-turn from

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900