To Make Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil freshly drawn, filtered water in a kettle.
Heat an earthenware teapot by pouring in boiling water, then discard the water.
Add 1 level teaspoon of tea for each cup and 1 extra teaspoon for the pot.
Brew and serve
Pour the boiling water into the teapot to fill the required number of cups.
Let the tea steep for 3 minutes, then stir the tea leaves.
After another 2 minutes, the tea will be ready.
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
- Tea
- Provides the main flavour and aroma as its compounds dissolve into the hot water.
- Water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the tea leaves.
The step that matters
Let the tea steep for 3 minutes, then stir the tea leaves. Steeping time controls how much flavour and tannin leave the leaves. Too short gives weak 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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