Honeysuckle is a surprisingly beautiful ornamental garden plant. It is specially planted in parks and gardens, on personal plots along fences and paths, arches and arbors, hedges are made from lush bushes. The graceful flowers of this plant are of delicate white color or with bright exotic coloring, unusually spectacular, can turn your garden into a fabulous, paradise.
Honeysuckle in cooking and traditional medicine
Few people know, but you can make delicious syrup from
honeysuckle flowers . And some varieties, for example, blue honeysuckle, also give fruits that are very pleasant to the taste - blue berries whose taste resembles a healing blueberry. Honeysuckle itself has
useful properties. We will consider 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, which are important for humans. Chemical elements: iron, copper, iodine, phosphorus, calcium are also present in large volumes.
Very juicy, sweet-sour, tart berry freshens well, quenches thirst. It is suitable for kissels, compotes, jams, jams, tinctures, mousses, etc. And in
medical nutrition, too, many useful things are prepared from it. What exactly is
edible honeysuckle suitable for
? Recipes from it allow you to cook dishes designed to strengthen capillaries and blood vessels. Raw berries, as well as those subjected to heat treatment, increase hemoglobin, strengthen immunity, the entire cardiovascular system and blood formation organs. The liver, stomach, including peptic ulcer disease, 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: grind dry or freshly picked flowers of a plant. A teaspoon of them needs to be poured with a glass of boiling water, better than cool. 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, just so that the liquid is warm.
Refreshing drink and wonderful cream
For this exotic, very tasty syrup, you will also need 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. This is how such a honeysuckle is prepared. The recipe prescribes: fill the flowers with water, separating the petals and removing the sepals. Place them in an enameled pan or basin. Let the night stand. In the morning, melt the sugar in warm water and simmer the syrup over low heat until transparent and thickened. Remove the saucepan with it from the fire and pour the lemon juice into the crystallization reaction, then let it cool. Now let's take the soaked honeysuckle.
The recipe advises to drain water from the flowers, let it drain through a colander. Then add syrup and cinnamon to the flowers. Shuffle. And pour in the alcohol you have at home - 3 tablespoons of berry or vanilla
liquor, peach or other fruit vodka. Berry, for example, blackberry, schnapps is also suitable. Now mix everything well in a blender and chop the honeysuckle. The recipe suggests proceeding in 2 ways. Or squeeze the resulting mass through cheesecloth and drink the drink as directed. Or put in the freezer so that the flower-vodka mixture freezes. By consistency, it will resemble cream or ice cream.
Wash the berries you have, put on a dish or in a bowl, top, like cream, put a few tablespoons of frozen honeysuckle and enjoy a wonderful dish!