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Black Currant Tea

A tea made by dissolving black currant jam in boiling water, then straining and serving over ice.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the black currant jam and boiling water.

  2. Stir well until the jam is fully dissolved.

  3. Strain the mixture when it has cooled.

  4. Serve over crushed ice if desired.

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

Black currant jam
Provides the main fruit sweetness and flavour, and dissolves into the water to colour the tea.

“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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