How to Make Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Scald a metal teapot.
Add the tea and pour in half the required boiling water.
Steep and serve
Cover the pot with a lid and let it steep for 10-15 minutes.
Add the remaining boiling water and serve in hot teacups.
Fill the cups half full, then add more water to the pot and fill the cups, not too full.
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
- Tea
- Provides the flavour and aroma as hot water draws soluble compounds out of the leaves.
The step that matters
Steeping time. Steeping for 10-15 minutes under a lid keeps the heat in so extraction proceeds evenly. Steeping too long pulls out excess tannins, which make the tea taste 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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