Mint Water
Ingredients
Directions
Place the mint leaves in a bowl.
Pour the boiling water over the mint leaves.
Cover the bowl and let it steep for 10 minutes.
Strain the mixture and serve hot or cold.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Green spear-mint leaves
- Provides the main minty aroma and flavour, which is released into the hot water as it steeps.
The step that matters
Cover the bowl while the mint steeps. Covering the bowl traps the volatile aromatic oils in the warm water and steam, so less of the mint's fragrance and flavour escapes into the air and more stays in the drink.
“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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