Wormwood Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Place the dried wormwood in an earthen pitcher or teapot.
Pour the boiling water over the herb.
Let it steep for a few minutes without boiling.
Strain and serve.
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
- Dried wormwood
- Provides the herb's bitter flavor and aroma, which are extracted into the water during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that draws flavor compounds out of the dried herb.
The step that matters
Let it steep for a few minutes without boiling. Boiling water can extract more bitterness and degrade delicate aromatic compounds, so keeping the water just below boiling while it steeps gives a cleaner, more controlled infusion.
“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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