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Slippery Elm Bark Tea

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Slippery Elm Bark Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break the slippery elm bark into bits.

  2. Pour boiling water over the bark.

  3. Cover and let it stand until cold.

  4. Sweeten to taste and add ice if desired.

  5. For a bad cold, add lemon juice and drink.

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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