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English Breakfast Tea

A hot beverage made by steeping loose tea in boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the teapot thoroughly.

  2. Add the tea to the teapot.

  3. Pour boiling water over the tea.

  4. Let it steep in a warm place for 10 minutes.

  5. Do not add more water after steeping.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Loose tea
Provides the main flavor and aroma as its compounds dissolve into the water during steeping.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor from the tea leaves and carries their compounds into the infusion.

The step that matters

Let it steep in a warm place for 10 minutes. Steeping time controls how much flavor and tannin leaves extract. Too short gives weak tea, while longer steeping makes it bitter and 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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