Name: Herb Teas
Ingredients: dried or green leaves of herbs; boiling water; sweetener to taste; honey (optional); alum (optional)

Herb Teas

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse the dried or green leaves in boiling water.
Let the mixture stand until cold.
Sweeten to taste.
For sage tea, add honey and a small bit of dissolved alum for a sore throat gargle.

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.