Tea, to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Warm the pot
Warm the teapot with boiling water for 2-3 minutes, then pour the water out.
Add the tea to the teapot.
Steep and serve
Pour in 2 to 3 cups of boiling water.
Close the lid and let it steep for 5 to 10 minutes.
Fill up the pot with more boiling water 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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Loose tea
- Supplies the flavour and aroma compounds that dissolve into the water during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour from the tea leaves and heats the pot before brewing.
The step that matters
Steep for the right time. Tannins and other bitter compounds keep leaching out of the leaves as they steep. Steeping too long makes the tea harsh and astringent, while too short leaves it weak and thin.
“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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