Steeping The Tea Recipe ingredients

To prepare this Steeping The Tea Recipe, first let the cups and tea-ball be made hot in the warming oven, or by immersing in hot water and then drying. Put a generous teaspoonful of tea into the ball; have fresh-drawn water boiling on the range or over the alcohol lamp. Pour the water into the cups and lift the ball up and down, first in one cup and then in the other, until the color shows that the right strength of tea is secured. Do not let the ball remain in the cups more than five minutes. If a stronger cup be desired, use the tea leaves in the ball for one cup, remove the spent leaves and take a fresh portion of leaves for the second cup. When tea is made in the teapot, let the pot stand in a warm place four or five minutes after the boiling water has been poured over the leaves, then pour off the liquid at once. As there has been no motion in a pot of tea that has not been boiled, it is quite evident that the strongest tea will be at the bottom of the pot.