Green Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Scald the teapot.
Add ½ pint of boiling water to 2 teaspoons of green tea.
Let it steep for 15 to 20 minutes.
Add more boiling water to achieve desired strength.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Green tea
- Supplies the leaf compounds that dissolve into the water to give the tea its flavour and colour.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour from the tea leaves and carries it into the drink, with more adding strength.
The step that matters
Let it steep for 15 to 20 minutes. Steeping draws flavour compounds out of the leaves over time. Oversteeping extracts more astringent, bitter compounds, so the timing controls whether the tea tastes smooth or harsh.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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