Winter Oxymel
Greetings my friend! This is my first time posting in this wonderful community. I wanted to debut with the preparation of a Winter Oxymel.
I must confess that this is the first time I make this preparation. I usually buy my preventive and anti catarrh syrups in organic natural medicine stores. But when I saw this fantastic contest I decided to participate and prepare my own oximel, or as we call it at home bitter honey.
The ingredients I used were:
-20 oregano leaves
-20 small lemon leaves
-4 eucalyptus leaves
-1/2 small red onion
-4 cloves of garlic
-30 ml of honey
-90 ml apple cider vinegar
-1 glass jar
-80% alcohol
-1 glass jar
The first thing I did was to put the leaves in a medium saucepan with 2 cups of water over high heat until boiling.
I let it boil and added the garlic and the onion without peel. I let it boil until the water was reduced by half.
I previously sterilized the glass jar. First I boiled it for 5 minutes and removed it from the water with tongs, then I put the alcohol all over the bottle with the help of a sprayer.
After leaving the jar sterile, I put in the honey and vinegar (1 part honey and 3 parts vinegar).
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Once my herb mixture was reduced to about half a cup, I removed from the heat and ladled the herbs into the jar.
I put in the jar until it was completely filled infusion of herbs. As my jar is small, the rest that did not fit in the jar I drank it with honey and it was a delicious tea.
I put it in a water bath for 8 minutes. I let it cool and then covered and labeled.
The winter oxymel, as I have called it, is a combination of herbs, honey and vinegar to concentrate all the properties of these herbs and try to reduce the chances of catching a cold, common in this winter season.
Some of the properties that benefit us from this mixture are:
-It is an antibiotic
-Antipyretic
-Strengthens the immune system
-It is antitussive
-Expectorant
All this because the combination of herbs that you select and added to garlic, red onion, honey and vinegar have almost the same anti-cold properties.
Consumption:
🍃To strengthen the immune system, take 1 tablespoon in half a glass of water daily before breakfast.
Can be stored for up to 1 year. This is my own version of oxymel.
I hope you like my participation. See you next time.
Post of my authorship. Photos taken of my work with my phone Huawei Psmart 2019.
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I LOVED this - even more so that you've just figured out how to make something you'd normally buy, except this would be better! The fact you've simmered it would have helped extract the ingredients faster - I didnt think of that as most traditional oxymels dont do it that way. But I can't see why it wouldn't work, as you can make syrups or teas to extract the herbal ingredients, so why not do it withe the vinegar, would preserve it and the honey make it easier to digest. I love the way you used what you had - the fire cider list of ingredients is long and we don't always have the ingredients, so using what you have to hand is fabulous. Well done and thanks for entering! @riverflows
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YEs!! I love it!! Garlic is the most potent ingredient, I mix it with coconut oil as an antiseptic!
Yes, it is very beneficial and I love the taste. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Excellent post. I like that it is a cooked oxymel as there are 2 ways to prepare it 1: when the vinegar and honey are the ones that extract the properties of the herbs by themselves and 2: when we cook the vinegar with everything and herbs. It turned out great.
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Good thing about this recipe is that most of the ingredients can be found at home. I have growing oreganos and I love the aroma of it. Beneficial to our health. Kudos to your debut blog. Thanks for the recipe. I'll surely try..
Yes, these are ingredients we have on hand. I'm glad you liked the recipe. Thanks for visiting my blog. Regards!