Cooking and honeysuckle. Recipe

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Honeysuckle is an amazingly beautiful ornamental garden plant. It is specially planted in parks and gardens, in household plots along fences and paths, arches and arbors, hedges are made from lush bushes. Graceful flowers of this plant of delicate white color or with bright exotic colors, unusually showy, can turn your garden into a fabulous, heavenly corner.

Honeysuckle in cooking and folk medicine

Few people know, but you can make delicious syrup from honeysuckle flowers. And some varieties, for example, blue honeysuckle, also give very pleasant-tasting fruits - blue berries, the taste of which is similar to healing blueberries. Honeysuckle itself also has beneficial properties. We will look at recipes from it a little later. In the meantime - what is the value of the blue berry? Firstly, it contains many vitamins C and group P that are important for humans. Chemical elements: iron, copper, iodine, phosphorus, calcium are also presented in large quantities.

Very juicy, sweet-sour, tart berry refreshes well, quenches thirst. It is suitable for kissels, compotes, jams, jams, tinctures, mousses.etc. And in clinical nutrition, too, a lot of useful things are prepared from it. What exactly is edible honeysuckle good for? Recipes from it allow you to prepare dishes designed to strengthen 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 blood-forming organs. The liver, stomach, including those with peptic ulcer, respond well to treatment when berry juice is included in the diet. For the preparation of a potent diuretic infusion, honeysuckle is also taken as a raw material. The recipe is this: grind dry or freshly picked flowers of the plant. A teaspoon of them should be poured with a glass of boiling water, preferably steep. Cover and let it brew for at least half an hour. Strain. Drink a tablespoon 3 to 4 times a day. And if you are overcome by colds, gargle with the same infusion, only to keep the liquid warm.

Refreshing drink and wonderful cream

This exotic, delicious syrup also needs honeysuckle. The recipe is simple, and the syrup prepared according to it is suitable for creating desserts, adding to creams, soaking biscuits, etc. We will need 5 and a half glasses of cold water for pouring, 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. granulated sugar. Here's how honeysuckle is prepared. The recipe prescribes: pour water over the flowers, separating the petals and removing the sepals. Place them in an enamel pan or basin. Let the night stand. In the morningMelt the sugar in warm water and simmer the syrup over low heat until transparent and thick. Remove the saucepan with it from the heat and, in order for the crystallization reaction to occur, pour in the lemon juice, then let it cool. Now let's take the soaked honeysuckle.

The recipe advises to drain the water from the flowers, let it drain 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 and berry, for example, blackberry, schnapps. Now mix everything well in a blender and chop the honeysuckle. The recipe suggests proceeding in 2 ways. Or squeeze the resulting mass through gauze and drink the drink as directed. Or put in the freezer so that the flower-vodka mixture freezes. It will have a consistency similar to cream or ice cream.

Wash the berries you have, put on a dish or in bowls, put a few tablespoons of frozen honeysuckle on top, like cream, and enjoy a wonderful dish!