Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the pot
Rinse the teapot with boiling water and pour it out.
Add the tea: one teaspoon for each person, one for the pot, and one for luck.
Steep
Shake the teapot and let it sit for about one minute.
Fill the teapot with just boiling water.
Cover the teapot and let it steep.
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
- Supplies the flavour and aroma that the hot water draws out of the leaves.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and aroma from the tea leaves during steeping.
The step that matters
Steeping the tea. Hot water draws out flavour and aroma from the leaves over time. Steeping too long can extract more bitter tannins, so the timing matters as much as the temperature.
“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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