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Syrup, Herbal




Source of Recipe


First Ways-Rebeca Lerner
The recipe for making an herbal syrup is very easy:

1) Gather together whatever herbs you would like, using the ratio of 1 cup of dried herbs per 1 pint of water. Bring them to a boil. If you can use a glass pot, that is ideal, because metal can interact with herbs and alter their chemistry. But use whatever you have.

2) Simmer and reduce until the water level is reduced to one-half or even down to one-quarter of what it was. This is your herbal concentrate.

3) Let it cool, and then strain the herbs out. You could use a coffee filter or a mesh screen or a handkerchief. Squeeze the herbs to get any last bits of medicine extracted in the water.

4) Add 8 tablespoons each of honey and vegetable glycerin per quart of herbal concentrate. Stir it in. Refrigerate it. Voila!