To Make Good Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Fill a kettle with fresh, cold water and bring it to a boil.
Pour some boiling water into the teapot to heat it, then discard the water.
Brew
Add the tea leaves to the teapot, using 1 teaspoon per person plus 1 for the pot.
Close the lid and let the teapot sit on the range for 1 to 2 minutes.
Pour all the required boiling water into the teapot at once.
Close the lid and let it steep in a warm spot for 3 to 5 minutes 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
- Loose tea leaves
- Provide the flavor and aroma that the water extracts during steeping.
- Water
- Extracts flavor from the tea leaves and forms the body of the drink.
The step that matters
Pour all the required boiling water into the teapot at once. Adding all the water at once keeps the brewing temperature steady and the steeping time consistent, so the tea extracts evenly and does not turn bitter or weak.
“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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