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Blippery-elm Tea

A herbal tea made by steeping slippery elm pieces in boiling water until mucilaginous, then straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Blippery-elm Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Strip slippery elm into small pieces.

  2. Pour boiling water over the pieces and let it stand until it becomes mucilaginous.

  3. Strain the mixture.

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

Slippery elm pieces
Its mucilage thickens the water into a slippery, soothing liquid.
Boiling water
Extracts the mucilage from the elm pieces as it steeps.

“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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