Name: Raisin Tea
Ingredients: ½ lb raisins, split and stoned; 1 pint boiling water

Raisin Tea

Ingredients

½ lb raisins, split and stoned
1 pint boiling water

Directions

Infuse the raisins in boiling water like ordinary tea.
Put the raisins and boiling water in a saucepan and cook slowly for about 2 hours.
Strain the mixture; it is ready for use, or cool it first.

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

Raisins: Provide the main flavour and sweetness, and release their sugars and colour into the water.
Boiling water: Extracts flavour and colour from the raisins and forms the liquid base of the tea.

“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.