To Drink Miss Beecher's Cranberry Tea

miss beecher's cranberry tea
(from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-book, by Catharine Esther Beecher, 1846)

Ingredients:

cranberries​

boiling water​

sugar​

nutmeg​

Instructions:

Wash ripe cranberries, mash them, pour boiling water on them, and then strain off the water and sweeten it, and grate on nutmeg.​

Cranberries by Mariluna [CC BY-SA 3.0]

This recipe is ideal for cooler weather and for month of November.

 

[donna]

Catherine Esther Beecher wrote 'Domestic Receipt Book" and it was published 1846. Miss Beecher was the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Catherine has memorial on Find A Grave:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90207562

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

This recipe is from "Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book". It is ideal for cooler weather and for month of November.

Wash ripe cranberries, mash them, pour boiling water on them, and then strain off the water and sweeten it, and grate on nutmeg.

Sounds interesting. I might toss in come cinnamon instead of nutmeg. I like nutmeg, but I just think cinnamon might be more suited to a hot cranberry tea. Maybe a nice orange dash of orange juice and a slice of orange to garnish might be nice, too. You can tell I watch too many cooking shows, right?

 

[donna]

Another Beecher recipe with a little on her life.

 

[donna]

The photo makes it look so refreshing. Thanks for adding picture.

 

[donna]

Bumping in memory of Catherine Beecher. She was author of cook book which had many fine recipes.

 

[donna]

With Sept. 6 being Miss Beecher's birthday, I am bumping her recipe for Cranberry Tea.

 

[donna]

A delicious recipe from Catherine Beecher.

 

[Fairfield]

Looks wonderful! I'd not change a thing--the very simplicity of the recipe is probably what makes it.