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Making the Tea

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil filtered water and scald the teapot with some of it, then discard the water.

  2. Add tea leaves to the teapot.

  3. Pour boiling water over the tea leaves.

  4. Cover the teapot and let it steep for five minutes.

  5. Adjust the strength of the tea by adding boiling water for those who prefer weaker tea.

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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