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Flax- Seed Tea

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Flax- Seed Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine flaxseed and liquorice root in a heatproof vessel.

  2. Pour boiling water over the ingredients.

  3. Place the vessel near, but not on, the fire for 4 hours.

  4. Strain the mixture through a linen cloth.

  5. Make fresh tea daily.

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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