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Bean Tea

A simple beverage made by steeping bran in boiling water and sweetening with sugar or honey.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 quart of boiling water over 3 tablespoons of bran.

  2. Let it stand for 15 minutes.

  3. Sweeten with sugar or honey to taste.

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

Bran
Steeps into the water to give the tea its flavour and body.

“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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