Hello! My name is Melek and this is a small passion project I am pursuing whilst on annual leave from my job as an academic. I would like to use this platform to honour the important women in my life- my mother and mother-in-law, sisters, aunts, cousins and friends- by breathing life into their recipes that have nourished me at some point in my life. While some of these recipes are unique to them, most were passed down from their mothers who in turn inherited them from their mothers and so on.
It is this intergenerational transfer of recipes and their ability to travel across time and connect us with our elders that enchants me most about family recipes. And in sharing these recipes with you, my hope is that their reach will extend into your family home and nourish you too.
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Recipe for Making Turkish Tea
Ingredients:
-4 tablespoons Turkish tea blend (I like to combine 1 tablespoon of Earl Grey tea leaves with 3 tablespoons of Turkish tea blend)
-Water
Necessary equipment:
-2-piece teapot OR stove top kettle and porcelain pot
-Strainer
Method:
-Add your tea blend to the smaller pot, rinse for a few seconds with water and cover lid
-Fill larger pot with water and put on the stove with the smaller pot placed on top and let the water come to a boil
- Transfer some of the boiling water from the larger pot to the small pot
- Refill the large pot with more water and return to the stove to let it come to a boil once more
- Reduce the heat to low and let the tea simmer for a further 15 minutes or until the tea leaves in the small pot have sunk to the bottom
- Pour 3/4 of cup with the brewed tea and 1/4 of cup with the boiling water
- Loveliest when served in a traditional Turkish tea cup and saucer