To Make Green Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Warm the pot
Boil water in a kettle.
Pour some boiling water into the teapot.
Let it sit for a few minutes.
Discard the water.
Brew the tea
Add 1 teaspoon of tea for every 2 persons into the teapot.
Pour about ½ cup of boiling water over the tea.
Cover the pot for 5 minutes.
Fill the teapot with more boiling water.
Serve
Keep a covered pitcher of boiling water nearby.
When serving, pour 2 cups from the teapot.
Refill it to maintain strength.
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
- Green tea
- Provides the main flavour and the caffeine-driven strength of the infusion.
- Water
- Extracts flavour from the leaves and forms the entire drink.
The step that matters
Pour about ½ cup of boiling water over the tea. Green tea leaves are delicate and scorch easily, and water that is too hot or steeped too long turns the brew bitter. Using just-boiled water and a short steep keeps the flavour smooth.
“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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