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To Make Tea

A simple method for brewing black tea using boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Make Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the teapot with boiling water.

  2. Add 3 teaspoons of black tea for every pint of water.

  3. Pour boiling water over the tea.

  4. Let the tea steep for about 10 minutes.

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

Black tea
Provides the main flavour, aroma and astringency of the infusion.

The step that matters

Let the tea steep for about 10 minutes. Steeping time controls how much tannin and flavour leave the leaves. Too short gives weak, thin tea; too long makes it bitter and astringent, because tannins keep extracting over time.

“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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