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Cold Russian Tea

From The Real home-keeper (1910).

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A historical recipe

The Real home-keeper (1910).

Canada

Known as a Canadian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. six teaspoons tea

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put six teaspoons tea in teapot;
  2. fill pot with freshly boiled water;
  3. let stand two minutes, then pour off and add juice of one-half lemon and sugar to taste.
  4. Stand on ice till cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Kettle
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Credit

From The Real home-keeper (1910), printed page 228, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/31383027923682

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.