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Scenting Tea

A tea scented by adding fresh flowers to freshly roasted tea leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Scenting Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour hot, freshly roasted tea leaves into a Hyson chest to form a 2-inch layer.

  2. Add a handful of fresh flowers on top of the tea leaves.

  3. Seal the chest and allow the tea to absorb the fragrance from the flowers.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Tea leaves
Absorb the flower fragrance and form the base flavour of the finished tea.
Fresh flowers
Supply the floral aroma that the warm tea leaves take up.

The step that matters

Seal the chest. Sealing keeps the aromatic compounds from the flowers from escaping, so the warm tea leaves can absorb them.

“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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