Iced Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Brew the tea
Scald a china or earthen teapot.
Add tea to the teapot.
Pour boiling water over the tea and let it steep for 5 minutes.
Serve
Strain the tea into glasses filled one-third with cracked ice.
For larger quantities, make a strong tea infusion, strain, cool, and mix with iced water to taste before serving.
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
- Provides the flavour and colour of the drink through steeping in hot water.
- Cracked ice
- Chills the tea quickly and dilutes it slightly as it melts.
The step that matters
Pour boiling water over the tea and let it steep for 5 minutes. Water that is not hot enough or steeping that is too short gives weak, underextracted tea. Steeping too long can make it bitter, so timing matters for flavour.
“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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