After the flu I had about 900 years ago, a dry cough has stayed with me. I downed two bottles of over the counter-maximum strength cough suppressant and it worked wonders for about seven hours. Then I got to half a bottle of an organic mix that includes agave syrup and eucalyptus and some other ten natural ingredients that make your brain all minty and your stomach to beg for suicide and I felt like new, for two days.
Everyone agrees I should see the doctor in case there’s something nasty trying to eat my lungs and I would, if doctors were not vacationing like any other normal person does on holiday time.
My friend recommended me ginger tea and a couple of weeks ago I mentioned it to my mother in case she could get some ginger at the supermarket. I worked through the holidays and had no time to shop for anything. I hand-made all my holiday cards and people though I did it because I’m thoughtful and crafty when actually I had no time to make a line in a store.
So my mom goes and buys the ginger. Except when I see this ginger, it’s really weird ginger. It doesn’t smell like ginger, it’s awfully hard to cut and it’s huge. When I tell mom that the ginger is weird she apologizes because the quality of all the ginger in the store was bad. I tell her I don’t want to offend anyone but this ginger has no ginger qualities. After about an hour of discussion and an additional witness we conclude that my mother, who grew up in a farm, daughter of a great farmer, bought the wrong tuber. We call it apio, and I swear apio is NOT celery so I don’t know how to translate it and google is failing me.
The real piece of ginger reached my hands last night and I got down with it.
I crushed a good piece, about two inches long and boiled it in 2 cups of water for 30 to 40 minutes. I strained it and added about half of that (undiluted tea) to two cups of hot milk. I finished with three tablespoons of organic honey from the Dominican Republic because I like my teas on the sweet side.
It was HEAVENLY.
The undiluted tea can be stored in the fridge so it can be made ahead and added to very hot milk on any night when you want to feel embraced by the warmth of something sweet and spicy.
I have about three post waiting to be written, there’s a dog and a horse and things that need to be recorded somewhere… in fact, I’ve been thinking if I should re-start my pen & paper diary this year.
Anyway, ONWARD!
Sounds divine and infinitely better than the packet stuff i’ve been drinking!
It’s DIVINE! Hope you try it and enjoy it!