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Dandelion Tea

A herbal infusion made by steeping dandelion flowers in boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tea

  1. In a china teapot, combine 1 ounce of dandelion flowers with 1 pint of boiling water.

  2. Let the mixture steep for 10 minutes.

  3. Strain the infusion into a bottle.

Serve

  1. Take 1 or 2 wineglasses of the infusion daily, sweetened if desired.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Dandelion flowers
Provide the main flavour and aromatic compounds that infuse into the water.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour and colour from the flowers during steeping.

“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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