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Raisin Tea

A beverage made by boiling stoned raisins in water, then straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Raisin Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the stoned raisins in 5 quarts of water until the liquid reduces to 1 gallon.

  2. Strain the mixture.

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

Stoned raisins
Provide the sweetness, fruity flavor and color that give the tea its character.

“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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