To Make Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Rinse the tea kettle and fill it with fresh water from the tap or pump.
If using the first water of the day, let it run for a minute to avoid lead contamination.
Warm the teapot with a little boiling water, then pour it out.
Brew
Add 1 teaspoon of loose tea for each person and 1 extra teaspoon for the pot.
Cover the tea with boiling water and let it steep.
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 flavor, aroma and color of the finished brew as it steeps.
- Water
- Extracts flavor compounds from the leaves and forms the body of the tea.
The step that matters
Cover the tea with boiling water. Water near boiling extracts flavor from tea leaves efficiently. Cooler water pulls out less flavor and can leave the cup weak, while the pot should be warmed first so it does not chill the brew.
“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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