A Lesson in Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Use 1 teaspoon of loose tea for each cup of water, adjusting to taste.
Boil fresh water thoroughly and pour it over the tea leaves in a warm teapot.
Let the tea steep for exactly 5 minutes, then strain it into another heated vessel to 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
- Loose tea
- Provides the flavor and aroma that the water extracts during steeping.
- Fresh boiling water
- Extracts flavor compounds from the tea leaves when poured over them.
The step that matters
Let the tea steep for exactly 5 minutes. Steeping time controls how much tannin and flavor the water extracts from the leaves. Too long makes the tea bitter and astringent, while too short leaves it weak.
“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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