Directions for Making Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil fresh water quickly.
Preheat an earthen teapot.
Add 1 teaspoon of tea for each pint of water to the warm pot.
Pour in the boiling water.
Steep and serve
Let it steep for 3 to 4 minutes on the back of the stove. Do not allow to boil.
Serve the tea from the first infusion.
For a second cup, make fresh tea.
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
- Loose tea
- Supplies the flavor and aroma that infuse into the water during steeping.
- Fresh water
- Carries the flavor compounds out of the leaves during steeping.
The step that matters
Do not allow the steeping water to boil. Keeping the water just below a boil while the tea steeps helps prevent a harsh, bitter taste, since boiling can over-extract tannins from the leaves and dull the delicate aroma.
“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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