My “Remedy” Mixture for Hot or Iced Tea
I wanted to share with you a little concoction that I keep in my fridge. This is my little “remedy” that’s good for sore throats, when you feel a cold coming on, when you have a cold and want it to go away, or if you just want something yummy to sip on. It’s great for immunity and can give you that little boost you need to help ward off a nagging cold – or lessen it’s effects.
I have had a jar of this in my fridge during the winter for the past several years but recently decided to keep it on hand year round. The past few weeks I’ve started out my mornings with a hot cup of this first and then moved on to my coffee to give me a little boost of hydration first thing in the morning. I also enjoy glasses of this honey lemon tea iced in the afternoons. It lends a delicious flavor to iced water.
Each of the ingredients is loaded with all sorts of vitamins and immunity boosting qualities. People have sworn that it was good for everything from clear skin to the flu to arthritis! I can tell you from personal experience that when you need a pick me up for whatever reason, this mixture, diluted in some water (hot or iced) definitely helps.
You’ll need:
- Organic Lemons – I use organic lemons in this because I let the rinds steep in the honey so its best to have lemons that are free from pesticides.
- Ginger – For the ginger, you can get a fresh ginger root and grate it but I often just get a jar of minced ginger and use it from there instead.
- Honey – Local honey is the absolute best if you can get it – there are all sorts of benefits to eating local honey! If not, look for the purest honey you can find at the grocery store and definitely spend a little more to get the real stuff as a lot of honey is just corn syrup masquerading at honey, which doesn’t have the health benefits we are looking for here.
Ingredients
- 2-3 organic lemons
- 1-2 tablespoons minced ginger
- local honey
Instructions
- Wash lemons and slice them into round slices. Place all but a few slices in a clean pint or quart mason jar. Squeeze the juice from the remaining slices into the jar and then toss them in as well. Add ginger.
- Add enough honey to fill the jar. Place a lid on jar and tighten. Let sit out for several hours, turning upside down and right side up from time to time to help everything blend, then store in the refrigerator up to 6 weeks.
Notes
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Christy, you are right on about honey. my husband is a beekeeper , any many of our customers take honey for everything from allergies to our local vet puts it on animal wounds to heal.
plus it’s great on biscuits yum.
OH how wonderful!!! Can’t get any fresher than that!!!
Blessings upon you Christy. I’ve been down with The Plague for a week now. Guess what I’m adding to my grocery list RIGHT NOW?!? Thanks for giving us a de-plaguer that doesn’t contain hot peppers and garlic, haha!
Oh goodness, I hope you feel better soon! The thing going around for us sure does tend to linger but I find the more I drink the better I feel 🙂
It’s delicious too. Thanks Christy.
Do you drink this even when you are low carbing?
Yes ma’am. You can put in more or less to taste so if you want fewer carbs do a little less but the benefits of it outweigh the negatives as far as carbs go in my mind. Plus, I’m trying to tiptoe away from artificial sweeteners so this helps a great deal with that.
Every single thing I have made for my family and friends from your recipes has been absolutely delicious!!
Oh my goodness Terri, thank you so much. I can’t tell you how much that means to me. Thank you thank you!
Thanks bunches!
Thank you Charolett and have a great afternoon!
Christy, You bless our hearts, you fill our tummies, you strengthen our spirits with your sweet southern wisdom, and today, you’ve even give us a remedy for THE PLAGUES THAT AIL US! Thank you again and again for all you do. We love you and appreciate it!
HA! I just love you Patti Moss! 🙂 Thank you for being here and for being such a great encourager! I know everyone who knows you is as blessed by it as I am!
So many of us are blessed by you, Christy, and Patti.
Thank you so much Aunt Charley!! That means the world to me!!
Am I missing something in your Remedy Recipe? I can’t seem to see anything in it that makes it into “Tea”.
It’s more of an infusion than a tea if we get technical, but the blend of honey, lemon, and ginger concentrate diluted into water definitely has a “tea like” taste to it 🙂
Do you fill the jar with the lemons and ginger with honey???
Yes, I don’t fill it with lemons but slice up a few and put in there, then add some ginger, then I fill the jar the rest of the way with honey to make a concentrate which is then diluted into water.
Thank you very much.
Do you keep the concentrate in the fridge?
Yes, I do keep it in the fridge.
Look at the NOTES, Kay. It tells you how to make either Hot or Cold tea.
I wondered the same thing. Tea is what I call something with leaves. But it sounds pretty good. Garlic is good for fighting off stuff, too- but glad it’s not included in this infusion!