Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the pot
Rinse an earthen teapot with boiling water and let it dry.
Add the tea leaves to the pot.
Steep and serve
Pour boiling water over the tea leaves.
Let the teapot sit at boiling point for 3 to 5 minutes.
For soft water, use it immediately after boiling. For hard water, boil for 20 to 30 minutes before use.
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
- Tea leaves
- Release the flavour, aroma and colour into the water during steeping.
The step that matters
Letting the tea steep for 3 to 5 minutes. Compounds that give tea its flavour extract steadily with time and heat. Steeping too long pulls out more tannins, which make the tea bitter and astringent, so timing matters.
“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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