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To Make Good Tea

A method for brewing tea using 6 teaspoons of tea and 6 pints of hot water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Make Good Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 1 teaspoon of tea for each pint of hot water in an earthen teapot.

  2. Let the tea steep for 20 minutes.

  3. Serve the tea while keeping the teapot very hot.

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
Provides the flavour and aroma that define the drink.
Hot water
Extracts flavour and colour from the tea leaves during steeping.

“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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