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Slippery-elm Bark Tea

A herbal tea made by steeping broken slippery-elm bark in boiling water, optionally flavored with lemon juice and sweetener.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Slippery-elm Bark Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the broken bark.

  2. Cover and let it stand until cold.

  3. Add lemon juice if desired and sweeten to taste.

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

Slippery-elm bark
Releases mucilage into the water, giving the tea its thick, soothing, slippery texture.

“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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