infusion
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An infusion is the flavor that's extracted from an ingredient such as tea leaves, herbs or fruit when one
steepS them in a liquid (usually hot), such as water, for tea. In today's culinary parlance, sauces that have been variously flavored (as with herbs) are also called infusions.
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COMPANION, 2nd edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst.
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