hemlock tea

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a beverage made from steeped hemlock needles and twigs.

Quotations

1796

[Mr. McGill drinks tea made of hemlock pine.]

1821

After supping on bread and hemlock tea . . . I went to bed at an early hour.

1853

I recommend, from experience, a hemlock-bed, and hemlock-tea, with a dash of whiskey in it, merely to assist the flavour, as the best preventive.

1964

. . . hemlock "tea" and burned Indian corn "coffee" were the substitutes for the real articles, which were too expensive.