Honey is one of the healthy and tasty delicacies for humans. Everyone knows flower, mustard, bee and lime honey. All of this can be bought in the store. But if you want something original and interesting, you can make dandelion honey
The benefits and harms of dandelion honey
Dandelions are a well-known weed. However, it also has many useful properties. You can eat dandelion leaves, flowers and roots. The leaves make a delicious salad, and the flowers make healthy honey.
Dandelion honey can be used as a delicious treat for tea, as well as a folk remedy. The thing is that dandelion flowers are rich in useful trace elements, including magnesium and potassium. They improve the functioning of the heart and liver, and normalize blood pressure. Honey can be a good diuretic, relieves puffiness and improves blood circulation. Dandelion flowers contain a lot of B vitamins, which help to strengthen the immune system, lower cholesterol levels.
Dandelion honey can be used as a medicine. Taking honey 3-4 teaspoons a day with milk, you can avoid many colds. The product can completely replace sugar. It can be used with pancakes, toast and other baked goods. Honey quenches thirst well, lowers fever and cures sore throat and cough.
Honey can only be harmful if a person is allergic to dandelions or any components of the product.
Dandelion honey recipe
One of the most common recipes is to make honey from 300 flowers.
For cooking, you need 300 dandelion flowers, 400 ml of water and 5 glasses of sugar. The flowers should be filled with water and allowed to stand for 1 day. This will remove all dust, insects and harmful substances from the flowers. Then the water must be changed and the flowers must be boiled for 2 minutes. Remove the dandelion saucepan from the stove and allow time to cool. After cooling, the mixture should be filtered, and the flowers should be squeezed out. To prepare the syrup, sugar is poured into the resulting liquid and boiled for 7 minutes.
The finished syrup is poured into pre-washed jars and hermetically closed. Cooked dandelion honey should be stored in a cool place. Honey can be used as a drug for the treatment of the liver, as well as in addition to tea or milk.
Such honey quickly restores the function of the liver and gallbladder.
