Linseed Tea

Ingredients

• One ounce whole linseed
• Two or three lumps of sugar
• One pint of boiling water
• Rind of lemon
• juice of lemon

Method

1. 1

   Put the linseed, sugar, and lemon rind into a saucepan, add the boiling water, and simmer for twenty minutes; then add the lemon juice, and strain the tea into a glass or jug.

2. 2

   Serve when cold.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two or three lumps of sugar. One pint boiling water. Wipe the lemons with a damp cloth, and peel the rind off one of them as thinly as possible, then cut them in two and squeeze out the juice. Strain the juice into a jug, add to it the lemon rind and sugar, and pour on the boiling water. Cover the jug, and allow the lemonade to stand until cold, then strain. Note. — Oranges can be used instead of lemons. Wine Whey. One gill of milk. | Half a gill of sherry. One lump of sugar. Put the milk and sugar into a rinsed saucepan and bring it to the boil, then pour in the sherry ; and when the milk is well curdled, strain through clean muslin into a glass, and serve the whey. Gruel. One ounce of medium oatmeal. Half a pint cold water. Break the oatmeal with the water, cover it over, and allow it to stand for one hour ; then stir it up and strain it into SICK-ROOM COOKERY. i55 a saucepan, and stir over the fire until boiling. Allow the gruel to simmer for fifteen minutes. Before serving it can be sweetened or salted according to taste. Linseed Tea* One ounce whole linseed. Two or three lumps sugar. of of half a Rind and juice lemon. One pint of boiling water

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