Good Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the water
If using hard water, mix in ½ the amount of filtered rainwater or a tiny pinch of bicarbonate of soda.
Boil the water quickly and use it immediately.
Brew
Add 1 teaspoon of tea for each person.
Infuse the tea for 7 minutes 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
- Provides the main flavour and aroma as its compounds dissolve into the hot water.
- Bicarbonate of soda
- Optional; raises the water's alkalinity, which can soften hard water's effect on the brew.
The step that matters
Boil the water quickly and use it immediately. Water that has boiled for a long time or been left standing loses dissolved oxygen and can taste flat. Freshly boiled water extracts the tea's flavour more cleanly.
“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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