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Balm Tea

A tea made by steeping dried balm leaves in boiling water for fifteen minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855 · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients
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Balm Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour a pint of boiling water upon a tea-cup full of dried balm leaves.

  2. Let it stand fifteen minutes.

  3. When ready, use the tea.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855. 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

Dried balm leaves (in the method)
Provide the main herbal flavour and aroma that the water extracts into the tea.

“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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