To Make Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Scald the teapot.
Add the tea to the teapot.
Pour about 1 cup of boiling water over the tea.
Steep and serve
Place the teapot in a warm spot, keeping it very hot but not boiling for 10 to 12 minutes.
Fill up with more boiling water as needed.
Serve hot.
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
- Supplies the flavor and aroma compounds that the hot water draws out.
The step that matters
Keeping the teapot very hot but not boiling. Steeping at too low a temperature extracts flavor slowly, while boiling water can draw out harsher, bitter compounds from the leaves.
“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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