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Clover Tea

A herbal infusion made by steeping dried red clover blossoms in hot water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the dried blossoms of common red clover in a container.

  2. Pour hot water over the blossoms.

  3. Let the mixture steep overnight.

  4. Strain the tea before serving.

  5. Drink 1 tablespoon of this tea five or six times daily.

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 red clover blossoms
Provide the plant material whose flavour and soluble compounds infuse into the water.
Hot water
Acts as the solvent that draws flavour and soluble compounds out of the dried blossoms.

“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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