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Cranberry Tea

A tea made by boiling cranberries with sugar, straining, and steeping the residue in boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pulp

  1. Boil cranberries with sugar until they form a pulp.

  2. Strain the mixture through a colander.

Steep and serve

  1. For every 2 tablespoons of residue, place it in a mug.

  2. Pour 1 quart of boiling water over the residue.

  3. Let it steep for 1 hour, then strain again.

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

Cranberries
Provide the tart flavor and the fruit pulp that gives the tea its body.
Sugar
Sweetens the tea and balances the cranberries' tartness.

“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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