Corn Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the corn
Brown the dried sweet corn in a pan.
Grind or pound the corn in a mortar.
Steep and serve
Pour 2 cups of boiling water over the ground corn.
Steep for 15 minutes.
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 sweet corn
- Browning in the pan adds a toasted, roasted aroma that gives the tea its flavor.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor and color from the ground corn during steeping.
The step that matters
Browning the dried sweet corn. Toasting builds roasted, nutty flavors through browning reactions. Too little color leaves the tea flat, while over-browning turns it bitter and acrid, so watch the corn closely and stop once it is evenly golden brown.
“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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