Why it works: Green tea and black tea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓
To Make Good Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil the water.
Scald the teapot.
Brew green tea
Add 1 teaspoon of green tea for each person.
Pour a little hot water over the green tea and let it stand for 2-3 minutes.
Fill the pot with boiling water.
Brew black tea
For black tea, use the same quantity and fill the pot with boiling water.
Set the pot on the stove to boil up once.
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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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Green tea + black teatop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together11 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Green tea
- Provides the main flavor and aroma of the infusion.
- Black tea
- Provides the main flavor and aroma of the second infusion.
- Water
- Extracts flavor from the tea leaves during steeping.
The step that matters
Pour a little hot water over the green tea and let it stand for 2-3 minutes. Green tea is delicate. Water that is too hot or steeping that runs too long can draw out bitter compounds from the leaves, so the timing matters.
“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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