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    "title": "Everyday Brew Lemon Cordial",
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    "excerpt": "A black tea and lemon cordial: strong Everyday Brew reduced with sugar and citrus, bottled for the fridge or for gifting. Dilute with hot or soda water.",
    "content_text": "This turns a strong brew of Everyday Brew into a lemon cordial you can bottle and keep: the tea gives it body and a gentle tannin backbone, while lemon and sugar do the rest. One batch fills a couple of bottles, so there's one for the fridge and one to label and give away.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the Everyday Brew Lemon Cordial recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/black-tea/everyday-brew-lemon-cordial/It uses Teapigs Everyday Brew, a brisk whole-leaf black tea. About twenty minutes, and it makes roughly a litre.",
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            "prep": "20 min",
            "serves": "Makes about 1 litre",
            "difficulty": "Easy",
            "ingredients": [
                "10 Teapigs Everyday Brew tea temples",
                "800ml water",
                "500g caster sugar",
                "Juice and pared zest of 2 lemons",
                "2 cinnamon sticks, optional",
                "2 sterilised 500ml bottles with tight lids"
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                "Sterilise the bottles: wash, then dry in a low oven for 10 minutes, or run through a hot dishwasher cycle. Clean bottles are what make it keep.",
                "Boil the water, drop in the 10 tea temples and steep 4 minutes only, then lift them out so the bulk batch does not turn bitter.",
                "Return the brew to the pan with the sugar, lemon zest and optional cinnamon and stir over low heat until the sugar fully dissolves.",
                "Simmer gently 6 to 8 minutes to a light syrup, stir in the lemon juice, then take off the heat and cool slightly.",
                "Strain out the zest and cinnamon and funnel the hot base into the sterilised bottles, leaving a small gap, then seal.",
                "Dilute 1 part base to 4 parts hot or soda water. Sealed and unopened it keeps a month in the fridge; opened, two weeks. Label gift bottles with the date and dilution."
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