San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
The Cook Book
BY JANE EDDINGTON

water with as many as eight cups VI
water to two tablespoons of pearl bar
ley. cooked for three hours or more
most gently, and besides drinking the
water for soothing your digestive trou-
bies, you can eat the swollen barley
as a breakfast cerea! for the same
purpose.
OF course, the malt drinks are but
another form of barley, srd they have
had all sort of recommendations as
emollients, etc.
Fruit Drinks.
Among the tisanes are fruit drinks
of varlo is types, and these are no: UNI
BIKE the ifuit soups Of Scandinavian
and OTHER countries we.ch are taken
fer tired stomachs. Last spring be-
came quite enthusiastic over apple
teas plain and spiced. l like the taste
of the single fruit rather than of a
mixture. Make these rs follows:
Plain Apple Tea.
Wash and cut one large Baldwin
apple into quarters without pairing IT.
aud slice each quarter ito fou: slices.
-Four one cup Of boi';Lg water over
aarle. and SET for two houis in a
gCntlc beat corresponding TO the "l'!
side of the stove, hot radiator may
do, or a. hot brick, Oh: end OF which
is over a gas Turner turned low.
Strain and ayink no. with a bit Of
sugar and, Il You liz. some orang.
juice. You will like if.
Sriced Apple Tea.
Prepsre apple as for plain apple
tea, and add to it six cloves and
some candied ginger about the size OF
half an egg sliced thin; candied stem
ginge-. Let stand in Il hot place, hut
neither hot enough to boil-o; even
simmer-for two hours Strain and
serve. Good hot or COD an3 without
ary additions except sugar and orange
iuice. Int lot with tn, full aroma OF
the ample it Is a most attractive drink
and sweet enough without adding SUI
gar for many tastes, because OF the
ginger.
Russian Tea.
The older way of making Russian
tea was to put a fresh juicy slice oil
lemon in the. bottom Of each cup
sprinkle it with sugar. and let l!
stand a minute, then pour hot tea over
it. Since lemon peel may impart a
bitter flavor, the lemon may be sliced
This gives q sort Of lemon tea, oil
which there are many varieties.
Making the Flower Favored Teas.
Dried orange flowers, jasmine flow
ers and others used to be dried with
teas and then removed according tc
an old account of tea drying, but 10.
day when we buy jasmine tea we find
the flowers there. By the way, lemon
verbena has been one of the flowers
used, and, as everybody knows. this,
as well as the jasmine, has strong
aromas. The positive thing to remem-
Der in making these tees is that they
should be made rather weak for most
tastes, since the aroma when strong
may be rather sickening. Even strong
tea of the plain leaves is often quite
horrid, and these are more so.
Aromatic Tea Leaves.
These jasmine, bitter orange. chic.
ranthus favored, and other teas OF
similar order are called aromatic
teas, and the sellers commend them
in much the same terms that the old
fashioned home medicine-making peo-
ple commended theirs. For instance
the advertising literature coming with
Jasmine teas says: IF taken regular
", these teas act as a tonic. facilitat
ing digestion of food and cleansing
the respiratory tract. rs well as tht
alimentary," which is. of course. ar;
rant nonsense. Bitter orange tea u
recommended because II increases the
appetite and cures cco-stipatioD and
various troubles OF the 'gastro.in'es-
final tract" To which we may reply.
"You don't say so!'
On Buying Teas.
The market in teas seems TO ne
TO have changed greatly in the last
few years. l do not know at all. all
the things procurable, while once l
did. And then there ere the grades.
For instance. one finn packs eight
grades Of jasmine teas, No. 1 being
$3.50 a pound, and No. 8 being only
sixty cents a pound. a good old-fash'
Toned price for tea. 1t has four grades
of chloranthus. No. costing 81 4
pound. and No. 4. $500. The -four
grades Of bitter orange go from So y
to eighty cents a pound. Others listed
are Fukien black tea, six numbers
Chekiang black tea. four numbers; and
others including eight grades of flat
Hyson. three of Yellow Mountain, five
''budlike" and six spiral Hyson. No
1. Of both the Hyson and the budlike
costs IS a pound.
AMI then the tea c3mpaniec nj the
world! One may get As confused try
ing to find out what teas th"ra nrs
as in trying tn find ont all the ways
mankind has favored water 20 enable
him to drink enough 20 keen himself
in health, and then again he has t;N"n
10 much as ultimete,v TO Gauss his
death rauch short Of the normal span.
1870