Individual Cup of Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Place the tea in a small strainer.
Put the strainer in a cup.
Fill the cup with boiling water, allowing it to pass through the tea.
Cover the cup and let the tea steep for 2 minutes.
Remove the cover and strainer, then serve.
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
- Provides the flavour and aroma that the water extracts during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and colour from the tea leaves while carrying them into the drink.
The step that matters
Steeping for 2 minutes. Steeping too briefly leaves the tea weak and pale, while steeping too long can make it bitter and astringent, because tannins and other compounds keep leaching out of the leaves over time.
“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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