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A honeysuckle cough sirup recipe
Honeysuckle is a beautiful hedge that blossoms in May.
It is widely known for its medicinal benefits.
There are different kinds of honeysuckle with differently colored
blossoms. All of them can be used for this recipe.
Honeysuckle blossoms and leave have antiseptice properties. A tea made
of honeysuckle flowers can be used to treat a sore throat as
well a urinary tract disorders.
Note that the honeysuckle berries must not be used
since they are a slightly poisonous.
A Honeysuckle sore throat and cough remedy can made by adding honey
to a concentrated honeysuckle tea.
Here is what you need to make the cough siroup:
-A hand full of freshly picked honeysuckle flowers
(optinally with some leaves)
-Honey
-Water
freshly picked honeysuckle blossoms
Give a handfull of honeysuckle blossoms in a pot and add enough water
to just cover most of the flowers with water. In other words
you need by volume as much water as loose honeysuckle flowers.
Boil it to make a honeysuckle tea. Let it simmer for 10min then
take a fork and remove most of the leaves and the blossoms from the water.
You can leave some in the water. Leaving all honeysuckle blossoms in
the water would be too much and result in some kind honeysuckle spinach.
Let the honeysuckle tea cool down just a little bit and add honey
while it is still hot. You need about 30% of honey by volume.
Thus if you added at the beginning 200ml of water to make the tea
then add now about 60ml of honey (30% of 200ml = 60ml).
honeysuckle cough remedy
You can store the honeysuckle siroup for a couple of month in
the fridge.
Note that honey products must not be given to babys and very small
children.
© 2004-2024 Guido Socher