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Making a Good Cup of Tea

A method for preparing a cup of Souchong tea using cold water and a teapot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Making a Good Cup of Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the cold water in a kettle.

  2. Rinse an earthenware teapot with boiling water.

Brew

  1. Add 2 large teaspoons of fine Souchong tea to the teapot.

  2. Pour ½ cup of boiling water over the tea slowly.

  3. Cover the teapot with a lid.

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

Souchong tea
Provides the main flavour of the infusion, released into the hot water as it steeps.

“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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