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To Make Green Tea

A method for brewing loose leaf green tea using boiling water.

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

To Make Green Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Warm the teapot

  1. Boil water in a kettle.

  2. Pour some boiling water into the teapot.

  3. Let the water sit for a few minutes.

  4. Discard the water.

Steep the tea

  1. Add 1 teaspoon of tea for every 2 people into the teapot.

  2. Pour about ½ cup of boiling water over the tea in the pot.

  3. Cover the teapot.

  4. Let it steep for 5 minutes.

  5. Fill the teapot with more boiling water as needed.

Serve

  1. Serve the tea.

  2. Keep a covered pitcher of boiling water to replenish the teapot.

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.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Green tea
Provides the main flavor and the aroma of the drink.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor from the tea leaves during steeping.

The step that matters

Let it steep for 5 minutes. Steeping time controls how much flavor the leaves release into the water. Green tea is delicate, so steeping too long can make the brew taste bitter and astringent, while steeping too briefly leaves it weak.

“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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