Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Currant Leaves for Tea. [ARTICLE]

Currant Leaves for Tea.

Currant leaves were extensively used in the South during the war as a substitute for tea. The leaves were picked from the bushes, Vere rolled up by hand and dried by a slow heat, and, and, when mixed with a small proportion of genuine tea, made a passable substitute for the real article. Some persons used the currant tea without mixing it, and it was said to have some of th 4 pleasant effects of the genuine leaves, but that it could not have been entirely satisfactory was demonstrated by the quickness with which it was dropped when the war came to an end. —[St. Louis Globe-Democrat. - Buenos Ayres, Argentina, is going extensively into the manufacture of agricultuxal in> pieman ts.