Honeysuckle is an amazingly beautiful ornamental garden plant. He is specially planted in parks and gardens, on personal plots along fences and paths, from lush bushes make arches and gazebos, a hedge. Elegant flowers of this plant are delicate white or with a bright exotic coloring, extraordinarily spectacular, can turn your garden into a fabulous, heavenly corner.
Honeysuckle in cooking and folk medicine
Very few people know, but from the flowers of honeysuckle you can cook a delicious syrup. And some varieties, for example, blue honeysuckle, also give very palatable fruit - blue berries, whose taste is similar to curative blueberries. Has its own honeysuckle and useful properties. Recipes from it we will consider later. In the meantime, what is the value of the blue berry? First, it has many vitamins C and P important for humans. Chemical elements: iron, copper, iodine, phosphorus, calcium are also represented in large quantities. Very juicy, sweet-sour, tart berries are refreshing, quenching thirst. It is suitable for kissels, compotes, jams, jams, tinctures, mousses, etc. And in the medical diet, too, a lot of it is prepared from it. What exactly is suitable for honeysuckle? Recipes from it allow preparing dishes intended for strengthening capillaries and vessels. Raw berries, as well as those exposed to heat treatment, increase hemoglobin, strengthen immunity, the entire cardiovascular system and the organs of hematopoiesis. The liver, stomach, including ulcers, are amenable to treatment when berry juice is included in the diet. To prepare a strong diuretic infusion as a raw material, too, honeysuckle is taken. The recipe is: dry or freshly picked flowers of a plant to grind. A teaspoon of them you need to pour a glass of boiling water, better steep. Cover and let it brew for at least half an hour. Strain. Drink a tablespoon from 3 to 4 times a day. And if you are overcome by colds, with the same infusion rinse your throat, just to keep the liquid warm.
Refreshing drink and a wonderful cream
This exotic, very tasty syrup will also require honeysuckle. The recipe is simple, and the syrup cooked on it is suitable for creating desserts, adding to creams, impregnating biscuits, etc. We need 5 and a half glasses of cold water for pouring, 400 gr. Flowers, a half cup of water for the syrup, a teaspoon of lemon juice, a pinch of cinnamon, 400 grams. Of sugar. Here's how to prepare such a honeysuckle. The recipe prescribes: pour the flowers with water, disconnecting the petals and removing the sepals. Place them in an enamel pan or basin. Let the night stand up. In the morning, melt the sugar in warm water and simmer the syrup until transparent and thick. Remove the saucepan with it from the heat and, in order for the crystallization reaction to appear, pour the lemon juice, then let it cool down. Now let's take the soaked honeysuckle. The recipe advises to drain the flowers from the flowers, let it flow through the colander. Then add syrup and cinnamon to the flowers. Stir. And pour 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 in the blender and chop the honeysuckle. The recipe proposes to proceed in 2 ways. Or squeeze the resulting mass through the gauze and use the drink as directed. Or put in the freezer, so that the flower-and-vodka mixture is frozen. By consistency, it will resemble a cream or ice cream.
Wash your berries, put them on a dish or in a crockery, top with cream, put a few spoons of frozen honeysuckle and enjoy a wonderful dish!