Tea, to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Measure one teaspoon of tea for each person plus one extra.
Heat the teapot by pouring boiling water into it.
Brew
Discard the water and add the tea to the pot.
Fill the pot immediately with boiling water.
Cover with a lid and let it infuse.
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 of the drink.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and aroma from the tea leaves as it steeps.
The step that matters
Fill the pot immediately with boiling water. Pouring the water in right after emptying the heated pot keeps the temperature high, so the leaves steep at a steady heat and extract flavour evenly.
“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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