Why it works: Green tea and black tea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓
How to Make Tea
six servingsIngredients
Directions
Prepare the teapot
Scald the teapot for six servings.
Steep the green tea
Add 3 teaspoons of green tea and pour a little boiling water over it. Let it steep.
Boil the black tea
In a tin cup with a cover, add 4 teaspoons of black tea and pour cold water over it. Cover tightly and bring to a boil.
Boil the black tea for 1 minute.
Add it to the steeped green tea.
Fill up with the necessary amount of boiling water.
Serve.
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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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Green tea + black teatop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together11 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
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What each ingredient does
- Green tea
- Provides the main flavour base of the brew.
- Black tea
- Adds a stronger, bolder body to the blended cup.
“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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