Name: Dandelion Tea
Ingredients: one ounce of dandelion in a jug; a pint of boiling water

Dandelion Tea

Ingredients

one ounce of dandelion in a jug
a pint of boiling water

Directions

Infuse one ounce of dandelion in a jug with a pint of boiling water for fifteen minutes.
Sweeten with brown sugar or honey.
Drink several tea-cupfuls during the day.

By Charles Elme Francatelli. 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Dandelion: Provides the main flavour and the plant compounds that colour and season the infusion.
Boiling water: Extracts flavour from the dandelion into the liquid during the infusion.

“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.