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Camomile Tea

A simple herbal infusion made by steeping camomile flowers in boiling water, optionally sweetened.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Camomile Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tea

  1. Place the camomile flowers in a china teapot.

  2. Pour boiling water over the flowers.

  3. Let the infusion stand for 30 minutes.

  4. Pour the tea into a wine bottle.

Serve

  1. Sweeten with sugar or honey if desired.

  2. Take a wine glass of the tea at 11 o'clock.

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

Camomile flowers
Provide the aromatic flavour and character of the infusion.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour and aroma from the flowers into the liquid.

“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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