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United States

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Two teaspoons 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. Two teaspoons of tea to 4 large cupfuls of boiling water, Bring water to boiling point and pour upon the tea.
  2. Let stand and steep for about 5 minutes.
  3. Do not use water that has been boiling any length of time.
  4. Never allow tea to boil.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Mrs. C. H. Leonard's cook book, (1923), printed page 176, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrschleonardscoo00leon

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.