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Making Tea

From Metropolitan cook book (1942).

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A historical recipe

Metropolitan cook book (1942).

United States

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 1 teaspoon of tea

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. Tea deteriorates on exposure to the air, and so it also should be kept in a covered container.
  2. Use 1 teaspoon of tea for each cup of boiling water.
  3. Scald an earthenware teapot, put the tea in, and pour boiling water over it.
  4. Cover.
  5. Let it stand frorn 3 to 5 minutes without boiling.
  6. Pour at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Metropolitan cook book (1942), printed page 4, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b33471459

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.