Tea— How to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Boil water in a kettle.
Pour a small amount of hot water over the tea leaves.
Set the kettle back from the fire and let it steep for about 5 minutes.
Fill the teapot with boiling water and serve.
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 main flavor, aroma, and color of the infusion.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor compounds from the tea leaves during steeping.
The step that matters
Set the kettle back from the fire and let it steep for about 5 minutes. Steeping time controls how much flavor and tannin leave the leaves. Too short gives weak tea, while too long 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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