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To Mix Tea

A tea blend of black tea and gunpowder tea steeped in boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Black tea and tea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

To Mix Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the black tea and gunpowder tea thoroughly.

  2. Soak your teapot with boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes.

  3. Pour out the water from the teapot.

  4. Add the mixed tea to the teapot.

Brew and serve

  1. Pour a small cupful of boiling water over the tea.

  2. Let it stand for 5 minutes.

  3. Fill the teapot with boiling water and serve.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Black tea + teatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Black tea
Makes up most of the blend, giving the main body and strong, robust flavour.
Gunpowder tea
Smaller share that adds a fresh, green, slightly grassy note to the blend.

The step that matters

Let it stand for 5 minutes. Steeping time controls how much flavour and tannin leach from the leaves. Standing too long makes the tea bitter and astringent, while too short leaves it weak.

“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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