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Russian Tea

A tea made with English breakfast tea and fresh lemon slices.

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

Why it works: Tea and lemon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 610 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Russian Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare English breakfast tea as usual.

  2. Serve the tea with a slice of fresh lemon instead of cream.

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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Tea + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together610 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

English breakfast tea
Provides the main tea flavour and aroma that define the drink.
Fresh lemon slices
Adds acidity and bright citrus aroma that cut the richness of the tea.

“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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