Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Scald the teapot with boiling water and pour it off.
Add the dry tea to the teapot.
Pour on 1 cup of boiling water and let it stand for 1-2 minutes.
Fill with more boiling water as needed, about 1 small cup per person.
Cover closely and let it stand for 5 minutes (10 minutes for English breakfast tea).
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 step that matters
Covered steeping time. Steeping for the right length of time controls strength: too short gives weak, pale tea, while too long extracts more tannins, making it bitter and astringent. Covering the pot keeps the heat in so extraction stays even.
“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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