# The Standard Delicate Cup

**Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/recipes/white-tea/the-standard-delicate-cup/
**Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

## Recipe Product Mapping

- Required tea: [Good Earth Elderflower and Pear White Tea, 15 Tea Bags 18g](https://teas.co.uk/product/good-earth-elderflower-and-pear-white-tea-15-tea-bags-18g/) | role: primary | reason: Primary tea mapped as required for this recipe. | confidence: high

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## Summary

A gently floral elderflower and pear white tea brewed right: just below boiling, short steep, no bitterness.

## Description

The delicate cup is an elderflower and pear white tea, and white tea is about the easiest tea to ruin: boiling water and a long steep give you a bitter mess instead of the soft, lightly floral, lightly sweet cup it should be. Keep the water just below the boil and the steep short, and you have a lovely, faff-free cup.

Source: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the The Standard Delicate Cup recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/white-tea/the-standard-delicate-cup/It uses Good Earth Elderflower and Pear White Tea, a delicate white tea blend. One mug, three minutes.

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