Name: Colt's-foot Diet Drink
Ingredients: ½ ounce Colt's-foot roots; 1 pint water; 2 pinches Colt's-foot flower; optional: wine

Colt's-foot Diet Drink

Ingredients

½ ounce Colt's-foot roots
1 pint water
2 pinches Colt's-foot flower
optional: wine

Directions

Make the infusion

Boil the Colt's-foot roots in water for a few minutes.
Remove from heat and add the Colt's-foot flower.

Serve

Stir well and take at regular intervals.
For dinner, mix with wine instead of water.

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

Colt's-foot roots: Simmering in water draws flavour out of the root into the liquid.
Wine: Adds its own flavour and some acidity when used in place of water.

“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.