Iced Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Make the tea
Steep 4 teaspoons of tea in 2 cups of boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes.
Strain the tea over a glass filled with chipped ice.
Serve
Serve promptly.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Tea
- Provides the main flavour and aroma as steeping draws compounds into the hot water.
- Chipped ice
- Chills the tea quickly, and as it melts it dilutes the brew slightly.
The step that matters
Steeping time. Steeping for too long extracts more tannins, which make the tea bitter and astringent, while too short a steep gives weak, thin flavour. Staying within the 3 to 5 minute window balances strength and smoothness.
“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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