Coffee/Tea Dandelion Tea

dandelion tea
(from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes, by Charles Elmé Francatelli, 1852)

Ingredients:

1 oz. dandelion​

1 pint boiling water​

brown sugar or honey​

Instructions:

Infuse one ounce of dandelion in a jug with a pint of boiling water for fifteen minutes; sweeten with brown sugar or honey, and drink several tea-cupfuls during the day. The use of this tea is recommended as a safe remedy in all bilious affections; it is also an excellent beverage for persons afflicted with dropsy.​

 

[Jimklag]

Dandelion Tea


From "A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes" (1852)



Infuse one ounce of dandelion in a jug with a pint of boiling water for fifteen minutes; sweeten with brown sugar or honey, and drink several tea-cupfuls during the day. The use of this tea is recommended as a safe remedy in all bilious affections; it is also an excellent beverage for persons afflicted with dropsy.

Is there any explanation of dandelion to go with the recipe? Is it the same weed we have now? Just the leaves? Flowers?

 

[nitrofd]

Is there any explanation of dandelion to go with the recipe? Is it the same weed we have now? Just the leaves? Flowers?

Same weed as today.they used to make wine in the south out of dandelion's.

 

[donna]

My Dad's Mom made Dandelion Wine. I don't know if she made the tea.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

My dad said his grandmother used to wilt dandelion leaves in hot grease with bacon. Then she'd toss some vinaigrette on it and have it as a side dish.

As to the tea, they still make it today as you can buy it from one of my favorite tea suppliers The Republic of Tea -


http://www.republicoftea.com/organic-dandelion-superherb-tea-bags/p/v20216/

 

[AshleyMel]

A former Pastor of ours would make Dandelion tea. Just pull those suckers right out of his yard! I never knew it was a thing. My Nanny grew up eating possum and squirrel and never hesitated to tell us that tidbit but, I'd never heard of anything like this! I'm thinkin' the wine sounds good too!

 

[donna]

How about some dandelion tea.

 

[donna]

Thought bump this thread. We have Dandelion Coffee and now Dandelion Tea.