Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Scald your teapot with boiling water.
Add 1 teaspoon of tea for each person and 1 extra.
Steep and serve
Pour enough boiling water over the tea leaves to wet them.
Let it stand for 15 minutes.
Pour boiling water to serve one cup for each guest.
After the first cups are poured, add ½ teaspoon of tea for each person and pour on more boiling water.
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
- Loose tea
- Provides the main flavour and aroma as its compounds infuse into the water.
The step that matters
Let it stand for 15 minutes. Steeping time controls how much flavour and tannin leach from the leaves; too short gives weak tea, too long makes it bitter and astringent.
“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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