Slippeey-elm Baek Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Break the slippery elm bark into bits.
Pour boiling water over the bark and cover it.
Let it infuse until cold.
Sweeten to taste.
Serve over ice for summer disorders, or add lemon juice and drink for a bad cold.
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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