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    "title": "Peppermint Leaves Cordial Base",
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    "excerpt": "A caffeine-free peppermint cordial: a quick hot cup, a cooling mint soda, or spooned over fruit and ice cream.",
    "content_text": "A peppermint cordial is a handy bottle to keep in the fridge: stir it into hot water for a quick after-dinner cup, top it with soda for a cooling long drink, or drizzle it over fruit and ice cream. It's caffeine-free, and the gentle, off-the-boil method keeps the menthol fresh rather than cooked out.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the Peppermint Leaves Cordial Base recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/mint-tea/peppermint-leaves-cordial-base/It uses Teapigs Peppermint Leaves, a pure caffeine-free peppermint infusion. Fifteen minutes, and it makes about 500ml.",
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            "prep": "15 min",
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                "6 Teapigs Peppermint Leaves tea temples",
                "400ml water",
                "250g caster sugar",
                "Juice of 1 lemon",
                "A small handful of fresh mint, optional, for extra lift"
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                "Lift the temples out, pour the strong mint brew into a pan with the sugar, and stir over low heat just until the sugar dissolves; do not boil hard or you cook off the freshness.",
                "Take off the heat, stir in the lemon juice and the optional fresh mint, and leave to infuse 10 minutes.",
                "Strain and pour into a clean bottle.",
                "For a hot cup, mix 1 part base with 4 parts just boiled water. Cooling soda: 1 part base, 4 parts cold soda. Also good drizzled over fruit salad or vanilla ice cream.",
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