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Flax-Seed Tea

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 1

An excellent drink in fever accompanied by a cough.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 326. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ELAX-SEED TEA. Upon an ounce of unbruised flax-seed and a little pulverized liquorice- root pour a pint of boiling (soft or rain) water

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