Slippery-elm Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Slice slippery elm into small pieces.
Pour boiling water over the pieces.
Let it stand until it becomes mucilaginous.
Strain the mixture.
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 pieces
- Its mucilage thickens the water into a soothing, slippery liquid as it steeps.
- Boiling water
- Extracts the mucilage from the elm pieces and carries it into the tea.
The step that matters
Let it stand until it becomes mucilaginous. Mucilage releases slowly from the bark into hot water, so too short a steep leaves the tea thin and watery. The step is judged by texture, since no time is given in the record.
“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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