To 'make Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Scald the teapot.
Add tea to the hot teapot.
Pour in just enough water to wet the tea and let it stand for about five minutes.
Fill the teapot with boiling water.
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
- Tea
- Provides the flavor and aroma that the infusion draws out of the leaves.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor from the tea leaves and carries it into the brewed drink.
The step that matters
Let the tea stand after wetting it. Wetting the leaves first and letting them rest lets them expand and begin releasing flavor evenly before the full pour. Rushing this can leave the brew weak or uneven.
“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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