Slippery-elm Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Strip the slippery-elm bark into small pieces.
Make the tea
In a bowl, pour 2 cups of boiling water over 2 tablespoons of the slippery-elm pieces.
Let it stand until it becomes mucilaginous.
Strain the mixture before serving.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Slippery-elm bark
- Releases mucilage into hot water, giving the tea a thick, slippery texture.
The step that matters
Let it stand until mucilaginous. Mucilage is drawn out of the bark slowly by soaking in hot water. Straining too early leaves the tea thin and under-extracted, so the steep needs enough time to thicken the liquid.
“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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