Tea, to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Warm the teapot
Preheat an earthenware teapot by pouring in ½ pint of boiling water and letting it stand for 2 minutes.
Pour out the water and add the tea to the teapot.
Close the lid and let it heat for 1 minute.
Steep and serve
Pour in another ½ pint of boiling water and let it steep for 3 minutes.
Add more boiling water to fill the teapot as needed, but do not drain all the liquid until ready to 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 main flavour, released into the water during steeping.
The step that matters
Preheating the teapot. Warming the earthenware teapot with boiling water before adding tea keeps the brewing temperature steady, so the tea extracts evenly and does not cool too quickly.
“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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