To Make Green -tea
Ingredients
Directions
Warm the teapot
Boil water in a kettle.
Pour some boiling water into the teapot.
Let the water sit for a few minutes.
Discard the water.
Steep and serve
Add 1 teaspoon of tea for every 2 people into the teapot.
Pour about ½ cup of boiling water over the tea in the pot.
Cover the teapot and let it steep for 5 minutes.
Fill the teapot with more boiling water as needed.
Serve the tea.
Refill the teapot or urn from a covered pitcher of boiling water when necessary.
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
- Loose green tea
- Provides the flavour and aroma that the steeping water draws out.
The step that matters
Cover the teapot and let it steep for 5 minutes. Covering keeps heat and aromatic compounds in the pot, so the tea extracts evenly. Steeping much longer releases more bitter tannins, which makes green tea taste 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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