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Black Currant Tea

A tea made by mixing black currant jam with boiling water, then straining and serving cold with optional crushed ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Black Currant Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1 large tablespoonful of black currant jam with 1 pint boiling water and stir well together.

  2. Strain the mixture after it has cooled.

  3. Serve with a little crushed ice if allowed.

By T. R. Allinson. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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

Black currant jam
Provides fruit flavour, sweetness and aroma to 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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