Honeysuckle - amazingly beautiful decorativegarden plant. It is specially planted in parks and gardens, on private land plots along fences and paths, arches and gazebos and hedges are made of lush bushes. The graceful flowers of this plant of delicate white color or with a bright exotic color, unusually spectacular, can turn your garden into a fabulous, paradise.
Honeysuckle in cooking and traditional medicine
Few people know, but from the honeysuckle flowers you cancook delicious syrup. And some varieties, for example, blue honeysuckle, give more and very pleasant to the taste of the fruit - blue berries, the taste of which is similar to the healing blueberry. Honeysuckle itself has useful properties. We'll take a look at the recipes from it later. For now - what is the value of the blue berry? First, there are many vitamins C and P groups that are important for humans. Chemical elements: iron, copper, iodine, phosphorus, calcium are also represented in large volumes.
Very juicy, sweet-sour, tartthe berry is very refreshing, quenches thirst. It is suitable for jelly, compotes, jams, jams, tinctures, mousses, etc. And in medical nutrition, too, many useful things are prepared from it. What exactly does edible honeysuckle do? Recipes from it allow you to cook dishes designed to strengthen the capillaries and blood vessels. Raw berries, as well as those subjected to heat treatment, increase hemoglobin, strengthen the immune system, the entire cardiovascular system and the blood-forming organs. The liver, the stomach, including those with a peptic ulcer, respond well to treatment when berry juice is included in the diet. To prepare a potent diuretic infusion, honeysuckle is also taken as a raw material. The recipe is as follows: chop the dry or freshly picked flowers of the plant. Teaspoon they need to pour a glass of boiling water, better than steep. Cover and let stand for at least half an hour. Strain. Drink a tablespoon 3 to 4 times a day. And if you are overwhelmed by colds, gargle your throat with the same infusion only for the liquid to be warm.
Refreshing drink and wonderful cream
For this exotic, very tasty syrupalso need honeysuckle. The recipe is simple, and the syrup prepared according to it is suitable for creating desserts, adding to creams, impregnating biscuits, etc. We need 5 and a half glasses of cold water to fill, 400 gr. flowers, one and a half glasses of water for the syrup itself, a teaspoon of lemon juice, a pinch of cinnamon, 400 gr. sugar sand. This is how this honeysuckle is made. The recipe prescribes: pour flowers with water, separating the petals and removing the sepals. Place them in an enamel pot or basin. Let the night stand. In the morning, melt sugar in warm water and boil over a slow fire syrup until transparent and thick. Remove the saucepan from the heat and, in order for the crystallization reaction to occur, pour in lemon juice, then let it cool. Now take on the soaked honeysuckle.
The recipe advises to drain the water from the flowers, letdrain through a colander. Then add syrup and cinnamon to the flowers. Stir. And pour in the alcohol you have at home - 3 tablespoons of berry or vanilla liqueur, peach or other fruit vodka. Suitable berry, for example, blackberry, schnapps. Now in a blender, mix everything well and chop the honeysuckle. The recipe proposes to proceed further in 2 ways. Or squeeze the resulting mass through gauze and use the drink for its intended purpose. Or put in the freezer to flowery mixture froze. On a consistence it will remind a cream or ice cream.
Wash the berries that you have, put them on a dish or in creamer, top with cream, put a few spoons of frozen honeysuckle and enjoy the wonderful dish!
