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Making Tea

A simple method for brewing loose leaf tea using boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Use an earthen pot.

  2. Add boiling water to the pot.

  3. Add ½ to 1 teaspoon of tea for each ½ pint of water.

  4. Cover and let steep in a warm place for 3 to 5 minutes.

  5. Serve immediately.

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

Loose tea
Provides the flavour and aroma of the infusion as it steeps in the water.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour compounds from the tea leaves to make the infusion.

“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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