Heartsease tea
1 batch
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Rose hips |
| ½ | cup | Diced dried pitted cherries |
| ¼ | cup | Crumbled dried orange peel |
| 2 | Cinnamon sticks broken into pieces | |
| ¼ | cup | Dried unsprayed rose petals |
| ¼ | cup | Dried violas (Johnny-jump-ups, pansies, or violets) |
Directions
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