Cold dandelion honey recipe

Taraxacum officinale, the dandelion or common dandelion, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant of the dandelion genus in the family Asteraceae (syn. Compositae). Wikipedia

What you need:

dandelion flowers (taraxacum)

cane sugar

lemon (chemically untreated)

orange (chemically untreated)

How to do it:

Spread the flowers on the table so that all the beetles can climb out of them. Don't rinse them! You would flush out all the pollen.

Cut the lemon and orange into circles. Start layering dandelion flowers, sugar, citrus slices in a thoroughly washed jar, press the layers with a spoon and repeat the procedure until the jar is full. The last layer should be sugar. Close the filled glass and place it in the sun for two to three days, preferably on the windowsill. Shake the contents as you walk around.

Squeeze the resulting thick "honey" over a clean cloth. You can pour the finished into a glass and store in the cold and dark. If you prefer a thinner syrup, add the juice of one lemon and about 200 ml of boiled water to the dandelions in "honey", mix, close again and leave on the windowsill until the next day. Finally, strain through a clean cloth and fill into a clean bottle.

Store best in the refrigerator.

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Another recipes work with adding warm - not boiling - water

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The dandelion blooms from April to August, so you have plenty of time to collect dandelion flowers.

Go to them ideally in sunny weather and in full bloom, around noon, when they are most developed. Remember that it is important to process the flowers as soon as possible after plucking, so plan your trip to them well.

IMPORTANT:

Never collect plants along roads, dirt roads, near industrially polluted sites or near fields where fertilizers and pesticides are used. The ideal place are more remote village limits and meadows, preferably mountainous.

HEALTH  BENEFITS

The effects of dandelion are as follows: hepatitis, diabetes, spring fatigue, simple fatigue, itchy skin, different skin rash, cleanses the stomach, improves digestion, gallstones, metabolic disorders, spleen diseases, cleanses the blood, diuretic effect

You can use it in tea, on bread, anywhere were you use bee honey.

          Have a spring and summer full of flowers !

                                                                                  Margaret