- Use Assam tea leaves (never a bag)
- Use a clean, warm china or glass pot (never a metal pot as it taints the tea)
- Add one teaspoonful of tea per cup plus one more teaspoon
- Use freshly drawn water, boiled once only to retain as much oxygen as possible to bind with tea polyphenols
- Avoid hard water (calcium ions) to prevent tea “scum”
- Best flavour is achieved using a high temperature, but short time infusion
- Stir the tea
- Leave to brew for 3.5 to 4 minutes
- Put a little cold milk (never hot milk or UHT Milk) into the cup
- Add the tea to the milk using a strainer (never pour the milk onto the tea)
- Add sugar if you like but only use white sugar and not too much
- Drink tea at 60-65°C.
How to make the perfect cup of tea
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