Kerstin Rodgers

Tea for Cleaning

Appears in
Ms Marmite Lover's Secret Tea Party: Exquisite recipes for ultimate afternoon teas
Ms Marmite Lover's Secret Tea Party

By Kerstin Rodgers

Published 2014

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Tea leaves have historically been used to clean and sterilise. Hospital wards were swept with tea leaves.

Mrs Rundell mentions this is the ‘directions to servants’ chapter in her book A New System of Domestic Cookery (published 1806):

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