Making Tea

Ingredients

• four spoonfuls of black
• one of green
• one teaspoonful of tea for every teacupful

Method

1. 1

   Bring the water to a hard boil quickly; fill the teapot with boiling water and set it on the stove for one minute to heat the pot.

2. 2

   Pour off the water, add the tea, then pour on boiling water and set the covered pot to draw, but not to boil.

3. 3

   The time for drawing varies: Green tea, five minutes; Oolong tea, eight minutes; English breakfast, fifteen minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four spoon- fuls of black to one of green. The water with which tea is to be made should be fresh from the well or cistern ;* it is better if from a spring or rapid stream ; it should not be made from water that has stood on the stove or in the water back. The making should be accurately timed so that it may be served as soon as drawn. Bring the water to a hard boil as quickly as pos- sible ; fill the teapot with boiling water and set it MANUAL FOR ARMY COOKS. 195 on tlie stove or before tlie fire for one minute in order to heat the pot. This is necessary, for if the pot is not heated it will chill the tea water. Hav- ing thoroughly heated the pot, pour off the water and put into the pot one teaspoonful of tea for every teacupful of tea that is to be drawn, and one for the pot ; then pour on the hoiling water and set the covered pot on the stove or near the fire to draw, but not to boil. It should draw long enough to liberate the essential oil, which constitutes its aroma, but not long enough to drive it off or to dissolve the tannin, which gives the tea an astring- ent and disagreeable taste. The time for drawing varies with the different teas, and may be stated generally as follows: Green tea, five minutes; Oolong tea, eight minutes; English breakfast, fifteen minutes. The faults commonly committed in making tea

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.