A Drawing of Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil water until it is briskly bubbling.
Rinse and scald a small teapot.
Steep and serve
Add the tea leaves to the pot.
Pour the boiling water over the tea leaves.
Let it steep for a few minutes before serving.
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
- Provide the main flavour and aroma that infuse into the water during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and aroma from the tea leaves when poured over them.
The step that matters
Let it steep for a few minutes before serving. Steeping time controls how much flavour and tannin leach from the leaves; too short gives weak tea, and too long makes it bitter and astringent.
“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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