Ingredients Here are the necessary ingredients to prepare a chilled verbena infusion for 4 people: 2 sprigs of fresh lemon verbena or a handful of dried verbena leaves 1 liter of water 2 tablespoons of liquid honey 1 organic yellow lemon Preparing verbena infusion The preparation of iced verbena i ...
Method 1: hot infusion with cooling in the refrigerator The first method for making your homemade iced tea is to brew the leaves or bags hot, as usual, and then let the resulting drink cool. The main advantage of this method is that it doesn't upset your habits, since all you have to do is prepa ...
Your rose bushes will also appreciate the proximity of this companion plant, which is able to keep aphids and slugs away. How to use wormwood in infusion or decoction in the garden ? If you're interested in natural gardening and permaculture, you know that not only can you make plant combinatio ...
1- Fennel seeds for better digestion To prepare a homemade detox infusion, the first of the 5 must-have herbs in a post-holiday detox is fennel. The fennel seeds are well known in herbal medicine for their digestive properties. A tea of these aniseed-flavored seeds can particularly help you in c ...
. To prepare a thyme syrup, bring 30 cl of water to a boil. Off the heat, add 4 branches of thyme. Cover and let infuse for 1 hour. Strain the thyme infusion and add 5 tablespoons of sugar. 4- Plants for chesty cough If you are suffering from a mixed or wet cough, rely on plants that contain essent ...
The resulting drink will not have the right lemon taste that makes lemonade successful. To obtain a good citrus flavor, you need to prepare a lemon infusion with the whole fruit, including the peel, and boiling water. 1- Cut a lemon in half. Set aside one half (for glass decoration, for example) ...
efreshing them and gently peeling them. Copyright: Audrey Vautherot Cooking The next step in the recipe is to make a honey-sweetened thyme infusion. 1- Bring a liter of water to a boil in a large pot. 2- Add the thyme sprigs and let it simmer for 5 minutes on medium heat. Cop ...
r to a boil in a saucepan. 4- When it's simmering, add the dried lavender flowers and let it simmer for 10 minutes to make a concentrated lavender infusion. Copyright: Audrey Vautherot 5- Strain the lavender infusion and sweeten it with honey before pouring it into the container con ...
How to use orange blossom ? Orange blossom can be used in different forms: - neroli essential oil - orange blossom floral water - infusion of dried flower buds or petals. This floral water is often used in cooking to flavor various desserts, such as fruit salad or pancake batt ...
ng and fragrant calorie-free drink). Note: Lemon verbena blooms in the summer, but its small white or light mauve flowers are not used in cooking or infusion. Only the leaves are interesting for their lemony and fresh aroma. 3- What are the virtues of lemon verbena? It is often overlooked, but lemo ...
e: FALSE Many people do not let their tea steep for long, fearing that this beverage will become too strong. But it should be known that too quick an infusion alters the taste. A too short steeping time causes black teas to lose their woody taste, brought by the tannins which take time to infuse in ...
reparing a sugar syrup flavored with star anise. If, like me, you don't have star anise at home, you can replace this ingredient with a bag of anise infusion. 1- In a saucepan, pour the water and sugar. 2- Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar completely until the syrup beco ...
n aphrodisiac power! This plant was once recommended to treat headaches, insomnia and melancholy. Today, phytotherapy mainly uses these flowers in infusion (4 to 5 g for 20 cl of water) to treat diseases of the respiratory tract. Indeed, violet has emollient and expectorant properties. 8- I ...
plant from the Asteraceae family contains an active ingredient that acts on the release of serotonin. A course of treatment (3 capsules or 3 cups of infusion per day) is necessary to prevent recurrences. 3- Acupuncture for Migraine In addition to herbal medicine, other natural methods can help reli ...
tar and fragrance. 4- Bee balm is edible. Another good reason to adopt it: the bee balm is an edible plant that can be used both in cooking and as an infusion. Its fresh, chopped flowers and leaves serve as a condiment on raw vegetables or salads. Once dried, they can be consumed as herbal teas. Th ...
always cover your pans when you need to boil water. Not only will this little gesture save you time cooking your pasta or making yourself a tea or infusion, but more importantly it will save you 25% on energy consumption. If you use your oven, remember to use the residual heat, i.e. the heat ...
orts bread - make homemade cakes by reducing the proportion of sugar by 25% (i.e. 75 g of sugar instead of 100 g) - drink your tea or other infusions without sugar. To give a sweet taste to a sugar-free infusion, you can add a pinch of dried licorice root (if you don't suffer from high ...
mple as you just need to dilute a teaspoon of orange blossom hydrosol in a cup of hot water. You can also prepare a calming herbal tea such as linden infusion or a commercial calm night blend and add the spoonful of hydrosol directly into your cup. 2- Drink Roman chamomile hydrosol against stoma ...
flower is also used to prepare a popular drink around the world and especially in Africa, the bissap. It should be noted, however, that bissap is an infusion that is prepared with boiling water, while in this cocktail, I macerated the hibiscus flowers cold. The next step in the recipe is to add ...
Pour a tablespoon of dried chamomile flowers into a bowl and add 25 cl of boiling water. Cover the bowl and let it steep for 10 minutes. Filter the infusion and let it cool before using it. You can apply this soothing chamomile lotion to your skin with a cotton pad after removing makeup to soothe ...
