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United States

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a cupful of boiling water
  2. Must
  3. two teaspoonfuls 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. Allow two teaspoonfuls of tea to one large cupful of boiling water.
  2. Scald the teapot, put in the tea, pour on about a cupful of boiling water, set it on the fire in a warm place where it will not boil, but keep very hot, to almost boiling ;
  3. let it steep or "draw" ten or twelve minutes.
  4. Now fill up with as much boiling water as is required.
  5. Send hot to the table.
  6. It is better to use a china or porcelain teapot, but if you do use metal let it be tin, new, bright and clean ;
  7. never use it when the tin is worn off and the iron exposed.
  8. If you do you are drinking tea-ate of iron.
  9. To make tea to perfection, boiling water must be poured on the leaves directly it boils.
  10. Water which has been boiling more than five minutes, or which has previously boiled, should on no account be used.
  11. If the water does not boil, or if it be allowed to overboil, the leaves of the tea will be only half-opened and the tea itself will be quite spoiled.
  12. The water should be allowed to remain on the leaves from ten to fifteen minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan