American Fork Citizen | 1907-09-28 | Page 7 | Tea from the Flowers

TF.A FROM THE FLOWERS. j This Product Little Known In the I United States. Ten, not from lenes, but from the flowers alone of the plnnt, Is rarely encountered en-countered In commerce. Tho petals, ' stamens, etc., arc sun dried, and thu resulting ten Is ot a rich, deep brown hue of pociillnrly delicate odor, anil ghes n pale amber colored Infusion rather more astringent In taste than I that from tho nvernge fair grado leaf, i Tho tnsto for It Is an acquired one, I nnd ern If this (en could be made commercially possible, It Is doubtful If It would over become popular. Tho American tea trade could oil-vantagcously oil-vantagcously tnko n suggestion from tho brick ten of the far east In our country, (ho (en dust, some of which Is good quality, Is not properly utilized. In Km ope It Is n regular article ot trade, nnd It Is advertised nnd sold as ten dust In America it Is snld to thousands of cheap reslau-units, reslau-units, who make from It tho mixture of tunic, acid, sugar nnd boiled milk which they sell ns "tea" If, as In tho orient, this dust wns compressed Into bricks, good ten could bo made from it.