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Tea

A simple brewed tea made with tea leaves and boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put the tea leaves into a small teapot.

  2. Pour boiling water over the tea leaves.

  3. Cover the teapot and let it steep for a few moments.

  4. Serve the tea carefully, ensuring no spills in the saucer.

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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What each ingredient does

Tea leaves
Provide the flavor and aroma that infuse into the hot water during steeping.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor compounds from the tea leaves to make the brew.

“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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