Lime-flower 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 (3)
Instructions (5)
  1. Place half an ounce of lime-flowers in a tea-pot or jug.
  2. Pour a pint of boiling water over the lime-flowers.
  3. Let the infusion stand for ten minutes.
  4. Sweeten with honey or sugar.
  5. Drink the tea hot.
Original Text
No. 225. Lime-flower Tea. To half an ounce of lime-flowers, placed in a tea-pot or jug, pour a pint of boiling water, and when the infusion has stood for ten minutes, sweeten with honey or sugar, and drink the tea hot, to assuage the pains in the stomach and chest, arising from indigestion. This beverage may also be successfully administered in attacks of hysteria.
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