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Pumpkin Seed Tea

A tea made by simmering pumpkin seeds in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Pumpkin Seed Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 4 cups of water in a pot.

  2. Add 1 cup of pumpkin seeds to the boiling water.

  3. Reduce heat and let it simmer for 15 minutes.

  4. Strain the tea into a cup and discard the seeds.

  5. Serve warm.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Pumpkin seeds
Release their flavour and aroma into the water as they simmer.
Water
Acts as the liquid that extracts flavour from the seeds during simmering.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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