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Slippery Elm Tea

A tea made by steeping powdered slippery elm in boiling water, then flavored with lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Norton, Caroline Trask · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Slippery Elm Tea

Slippery Elm Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour one cup of boiling water over one teaspoonful of powdered slippery elm, or a little of the bark.

  2. When cool, strain.

  3. Flavor with lemon juice and sugar.

  4. Serve cold.

By Norton, Caroline Trask. 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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Slippery elm
Powdered inner bark that thickens the water into a soothing, mucilaginous, slightly slippery drink.

“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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