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Essentials In Making Good Tea

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a teaspoon of tea
  2. Water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Use a teaspoon of tea for each cup and an extra spoonful for the pot.
  2. Have the water “mad boiling hot.” Scald the pot.
  3. Pour the water on the tea and allow to draw for at least five minutes.
  4. Strain off into an other teapot ready to serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Credit

From A Book Of Selected Recipes (1934), printed page 43, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/a-book-of-selected-recipes

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.