Name: Refrigerant Tamarind Drink
Ingredients: 6 ounces tamarind fruit; 1 ounce sassafras chips; 2 pints water

Refrigerant Tamarind Drink

Ingredients

6 ounces tamarind fruit
1 ounce sassafras chips
2 pints water

Directions

Boil tamarind fruit and sassafras chips in water for 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and let cool.
Strain the mixture and serve.

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

Tamarind fruit: Provides the tangy, sour acidity that defines the drink's flavor.
Sassafras chips: Adds the distinctive aromatic, woodsy flavor to the infused 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.