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    "excerpt": "How to get a second cup from loose-leaf green tea by re-steeping the same leaves: a short first steep, then a slightly longer one.",
    "content_text": "Good loose-leaf green tea is worth re-steeping: the same leaves will give you a second, and often a third, cup. The first steep is short and bright; the second, a touch longer because the leaves have already opened, comes out softer and grassier.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the How to Re-Steep Loose-Leaf Green Tea recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/green-tea/how-to-re-steep-loose-leaf-green-tea/It is the easiest way to get more from your tea, and a good way to taste how the flavour shifts between infusions. Makes two cups from one teaspoon.",
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            "prep": "10 min",
            "serves": "Serves 2 cups from 1 leaf",
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                "2.5g Dilmah Ceylon Pure Green Loose Leaf Tea (1 heaped teaspoon)",
                "400ml total freshly drawn water (200ml per cup, at 80C)",
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                "Warm two mugs. Boil the kettle and let it cool for a minute or so to about 80C.",
                "Put a heaped teaspoon of leaves in an infuser and steep in 200ml of 80C water for two minutes; this is your first cup.",
                "Lift the infuser out and set the wet leaves aside, draining them gently.",
                "For the second cup, pour another 200ml of 80C water over the same leaves.",
                "Steep this one for three minutes, a little longer, as the opened leaves give up their flavour more slowly.",
                "Re-steep within an hour or so; leaves left sitting too long between infusions go stale and flat."
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