Turtle Punch
Ingredients
Directions
Put the tea into a jug.
Pour boiling water over the tea.
Cover the jug and let it stand for 10 minutes.
Strain the tea before serving.
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
- Gunpowder tea
- Provides the main tea flavour and colour, released into the water as it steeps.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour from the tea leaves and dissolves their soluble compounds during steeping.
The step that matters
Cover the jug and let it stand for 10 minutes. Covering keeps heat and aroma in while the leaves steep. Steeping too briefly gives weak tea, while steeping too long can make it bitter and astringent.
“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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