About the Recipe
Super easy and delicious, a great way to get the herbs into the little darlings and fussy wuss bags who love sweet tasting medicine. Apart from the liquorice root and rosehips, these ingredients are found growing around you. Some on your local foothpaths (plantain) culinary herb gardens (thyme) or cottage gardens (elderberry and violet leaf and flowers.)
Ingredients
Elderberry 2 cups fresh (stems not included, just berries) or 1 cup driedÂ
Elder flowers 1cup fresh or ½ cup driedÂ
Plantain 8 leaves
Thyme bunch
Violet leaf and flower bunch
Liquorice root ¼ cup
Rosehips ½ cup
Honey ½ cup
Raw Organic Sugar ½ cup
4 cups fresh water
Directions
Ensure all cooking utensils, surfaces and vessels are clean and sterile.
Wash carefully all fresh herb material, pat dry.
Add all ingredients to a pan, adding enough fresh water to cover your herb material leaving a 2 inch gap to top of pan – about 4 cups should be enough.
Gently simmer all ingredients in a pan for 10 mins with the pan lid ON to keep all the essential oil goodies in the cough syrup.
Leave to cool and steep overnight (covered) for further extracting.
Strain, decant and bottle
Label and refrigerate.
It should last for up to 3 months if preserved well using sterilised equipment.
Dose
Take up to 20-40mL daily for dry cough and irritation. Best taken warm.