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Plasmon Tea

Tea steeped in boiling water, using one teaspoon of tea per person.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat a teapot.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon of tea for each person.

  3. Pour in boiling water.

  4. Let it steep for 3 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Tea
Provides the main flavour and aroma of the infusion.

The step that matters

Letting it steep for 3 minutes. Steeping time controls how much flavour and tannin leach from the leaves into the water. Too short gives weak, pale tea, while too long can make 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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