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Red Clover Tea Recipe


   
Recipe Categories: Beverage Recipes
Average Rating: (1 vote)
Yield: 2 cups
 
Ingredients
  1   Handful fresh red clover  
    Blossoms, w/a few leaves  
    Lemon  
    Honey  
    Fresh mint leaves (opt'l.)  
    -and/or-  
    Several dandelion leaves  
    ;(opt'l.)  
 
Instructions
 
  1. Put the blossoms and leaves into a 2-cup earthenware teapot. Fill teapot with boiling water, cover, and infuse for 5 to 10 minutes over very low heat. Set the pot on a trivet over the burner, if necessary, to protect it from breaking. Strain into a hot cup, add a twist of lemon and sweeten with honey.

 
  Some fresh mint leaves and/or several dandelion leaves can be used with the clover blossoms.

 
  Note: Red clover blossoms may be dried to use for tea. Spread the blossoms out into a single layer on a tray and dry them in the sun. Use less of the dried flowers, 1 to 1 1/2 tsp. to 1 cup of water, to make the tea.

 
  Makes: 2 cups.

 
  From "The Wild Flavor" by Marilyn Kluger. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1984. Pg. 253. ISBN 0-87477-338-5. Posted by Cathy Harned. From: Cathy Harned

 
   


 



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