Can someone tell me how to make dandelion wine, how to use the leaves to make te!


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Can someone tell me how to make dandelion wine, how to use the leaves to make tea, and what to do with roots?

I would appreciate some recipes. Thanks!


Answers:

Dandelion Wine: Four good quarts of dandelion blossoms, four pounds of sugar, six oranges, five lemons. Wash dandelion blossoms and place them in an earthenware crock. Pour five quarts of boiling water over them and let stand 36 hours. Then strain through a muslin bag, squeezing out all moisture from dandelions. Put the strained juice in a deep stone crock or jug and add to it the grated rind and juice of the six oranges and five lemons. Tie a piece of cheese-cloth over the top of jug and stand it in a warm kitchen about one week, until it begins to ferment. Then stand away from stove in an outer kitchen or cooler place, not in the cellar, for three months. At the end of three months put in bottles. This is a clear, amber, almost colorless liquid. A pleasant drink of medicinal value.


Dandelion tea:

Ingredients:
6 dandelion leaves
boiling water
1 teaspoon honey (optional)

Method:
Remove the leaves from the stems and tear them into strips. Place in the bottom of a mug, pour on enough boiling water to fill the mug and leave to stand for 5-10 minutes. Strain and drink. For a sweeter brew, add 1 teaspoon of honey.


Good luck! We learned about this in my Environmental Science class....we even made some. It was actually pretty good...




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