Tea— How to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Boil water.
Pour a small amount of hot water over the tea and let it steep for about five minutes.
Fill the teapot with boiling water and serve immediately.
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 flavor, aroma, and color of the drink as it steeps in the water.
The step that matters
Letting the tea steep. Steeping for too short or too long changes the extraction of flavor compounds from the leaves. Steeping for about five minutes, as the record states, lets the tea develop its flavor without becoming overly bitter or weak.
“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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