Name: Bran Tea
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons bran; 1 quart boiling water; Sugar or honey to taste

Bran Tea

Ingredients

3 tablespoons bran
1 quart boiling water
Sugar or honey to taste

Directions

Boil a kettle of water.
Place 3 tablespoons of bran into a large jug.
Pour 1 quart of boiling water into the jug.
Cover the jug and let it steep for 15 minutes.
Strain the tea through muslin and sweeten with sugar or honey as desired.

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

Bran: Steeping releases its flavour and soluble compounds into the hot water, forming the tea.
Boiling water: Hot water extracts flavour from the bran and carries it into the liquid.

“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.