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L E N T Y
For every tea or blend on shelves, Jo will have
tasted 10 similar ones in order to find the best
flavours. A kitchen timer is good, as it can
be hard to guess how long three minutes is,
and some kind of infuser or tea strainer. If
you really want to push the boat out, you
can get a temperature variable kettle – it’s
a kettle which you can set the temperature
to, so if you wanted to have a normal black
tea, you can set it at 90-95 degrees, but if you
wanted to have a white or green tea, you can
set it to 60 or 70 degrees.
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So you don’t pour boiling water
straight on tea leaves?
Our grans may not have had it quite right
when they said you need to bring boiling
water straight to the tea leaves. For a very
strong black tea that you’re going to be
having with milk and sugar, that’s fine, but
for anything else it brings out very bitter,
drying astringent qualities to the tea. If
it’s a lower temperature, even just by a few
degrees, you’ll be getting a much softer,
well-rounded cup of tea.
Where to buy
Visit The Gilded Teapot
at No 1 Tudor Arcade,
Dorchester, Dorset.
Or shop online at:
thegildedteapot.com
Can you recommend any great cafes
where yo