Coffee/Tea Mint Tea

mint tea
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

spare mint​

boiling water​

loaf sugar​

Instructions:

Pick the leaves and stalks of spare mint, rinse them clean, put them in a pitcher, and pour boiling water on, cover it, and let it stand for a few minutes to infuse; then turn the tea from the leaves, sweeten it lightly with loaf sugar, and serve it warm. It is a sovereign efficacy in settling a sick stomach after taking an emetic, Sage tea is also good, Balm makes a very cooling tea; it is good to use in fevers as a constant drink.​

Spare Mint... is that the same as spearmint?

 

[CivilWarTalk]

Spare Mint... is that the same as spearmint?

Okay doing some checking...

as per the Dictionarie of the French and English tongues of 1673....

Mente Romaine, Spare Mint, brown Mint, Garden Mints.​

Then Wikipedia shows that Spearmint, is also known as garden mint....

So a definite "maybe"!

 

[Mrs. V]

Just as long as it's not catmint….