Heartsease tea

Yield: 1 batch

Measure Ingredient
1 cup Rose hips
½ cup Diced dried pitted cherries
¼ cup Crumbled dried orange peel
2 \N Cinnamon sticks broken into pieces
¼ cup Dried unsprayed rose petals
¼ cup Dried violas (Johnny-jump-ups, pansies, or violets)

The naturally tart taste of this tea may be amended by adding honey or other sweetener (rose geranium sugar is especially nice).

Mix all the ingredients. Store in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid. Use about a tablespoon per cup and steep for 15 minutes to release the flavor of rose hips and cherries.

* Source: Cathy Anderson, Nicholasville, Kentucky * The Herb Companion, December/November 1993 * Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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