Tea in Pot
Ingredients
Directions
Place 1 teaspoon of loose tea in an individual teapot.
Fill the teapot with boiling water.
Serve the tea, and optionally provide an extra pitcher of hot water on the side.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Loose tea
- Provides the main flavour and aroma as its compounds dissolve into the water.
The step that matters
Fill the teapot with boiling water. Water that is not at a full boil extracts tea less fully, leaving a weaker, flatter cup. Boiling water releases the tea's flavour compounds efficiently.
“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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