Colds
Elderflower Chill
A pale, sweaty cup for the first shiver.
Elderflower is the spring cousin of elderberry. Traditional kitchens poured a hot cup under a blanket at the first chill — a diaphoretic, in the old language: a tea you sweat with, then change your shirt.
- Steep
- 10 min
- Water
- 93°C / 200°F
- Caffeine
- None
Taste · Muscat grape, floral, light
Ingredients
2 cups
- Organic elderflower2 tsp
- Organic peppermint leaf · optional1 tsp
Method
- 1
Steep covered 10 minutes. Drink hot.
- 2
Wrap up. This is not an iced tea.
Why this cup
- A hot cup when you feel a cold coming
- Lighter than the berry decoction
- Mint is a good friend in the pot
Go gently
- Use culinary dried flowers, not ornamental shrubs you cannot name.
- Skip in pregnancy unless advised.
- Not a treatment for flu. Seek care if you worsen.
Steep timer
10:00
