Camomile Tea

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
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A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (7)
  1. Put about thirty flowers into a jug.
  2. Pour a pint of boiling water upon them.
  3. Cover up the tea.
  4. When it has stood about ten minutes, pour it off from the flowers into another jug.
  5. Sweeten with sugar or honey.
  6. Drink a tea-cupful of it fasting in the morning to strengthen the digestive organs, and restore the liver to healthier action.
  7. A tea-cupful of camomile tea, in which is stirred a large dessert-spoonful of moist sugar, and a little grated ginger, is an excellent thing to administer to aged people a couple of hours before their dinner.
Original Text
No. 210. Camomile Tea. Put about thirty flowers into a jug, pour a pint of[92] boiling water upon them, cover up the tea, and when it has stood about ten minutes, pour it off from the flowers into another jug; sweeten with sugar or honey; drink a tea-cupful of it fasting in the morning to strengthen the digestive organs, and restore the liver to healthier action. A tea-cupful of camomile tea, in which is stirred a large dessert-spoonful of moist sugar, and a little grated ginger, is an excellent thing to administer to aged people a couple of hours before their dinner.
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