Comforting Cold and Flu Tea

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- 15mins
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ingredients
- 8 cups water
- 8 slices fresh ginger
- 12 sage leaves, fresh or dried
- 3 rosemary sprigs, fresh
- 3 fresh thyme sprigs, fresh (optional)
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 3 tablespoons honey
directions
- Place all ingredients (except honey) in a large pot. Bring to a boil. Turn off heat and steep for about 10 minutes.
- Strain into a pitcher (I like to leave the cinnamon sticks in the pitcher for extra flavor). Stir in honey while still warm.
- Store pitcher in refrigerator. Reheat one cup at a time in the microwave, adding more honey to taste, if desired. Drink twice a day, breathing steam through nose, for maximum benefit.
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This is very tasty without the dried thyme per preference. This is my favorite cold tea so far because it tastes so good and is soothing on the throat with more creamed honey per preference. I did use dried sage as that is what I had on hand. I am wondering if I shouldn't use sage though as I am in very early pregnancy but I am no longer nursing my current DD (toddler). I actually tried using dried sage to dry up my milk supply when weaning DD but it wasn't working. Maybe my dried sage is too old? I had to use dried rosemary as well as that is what I had on hand for which I had the permission of the poster. I squeezed a fresh lemon for it's juice and used spring water plus the rest of the ingredients. I will make this often when I have a cold and maybe even when I don't, it tastes that yummy. Made for Veggie Swap 31 ~ February 2011.
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