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Camomile Tea

A herbal infusion made from 25 camomile flowers steeped in boiling water, optionally sweetened.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the camomile flowers in a teapot.

  2. Pour boiling water over the flowers.

  3. Let the infusion steep for 30 minutes.

  4. Strain the tea into a bottle.

Serve

  1. Sweeten with sugar or honey if desired.

  2. Serve a wineglass of tea at 11 o'clock.

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

Camomile flowers
Provide the main floral flavour and aroma as they steep in the hot water.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour and aroma compounds from the flowers into the liquid.

“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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