Name: Hyssop Tea
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon dried hyssop; 2 cups boiling water; honey to taste

Hyssop Tea

Ingredients

1 tablespoon dried hyssop
2 cups boiling water
honey to taste

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Infuse the dried hyssop in boiling water for 10 minutes.
Strain the tea into a glass.
Sweeten with honey to taste.
Drink several times during the day.

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

Dried hyssop: Gives the tea its herbal aroma and flavour as it steeps in the hot water.
Honey: Adds sweetness to the tea, to the amount you prefer.

“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.