Dandelion Honey

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time	2 hrs 30 mins
Total Time	2 hrs 30 mins
Course	Breakfast
Cuisine	European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

300 g dandelion flower heads, picked on a dry day
2 kg sugar
2 lemon (s), (or 1 packet citric acid - for preserving)
1 liter water

Instructions

Pick the flowers on a dry day. Possibly put on gloves, otherwise the fingers will turn yellow. Pluck flowers - everything GREEN that gives off milk has to go!
Boil 1 liter of water, the sliced lemons and flower petals for 30 minutes. Press the brew through a cloth (clean Molton diaper). Cook slowly with sugar for 1 hour. Caution - can boil over !!! Make a gel test! Use a large saucepan and repeatedly wash the inside edge with cold water (and a brush).
TIP: For a cough honey: 1 glass of dandelion honey, 2 cloves, 2 handfuls of dandelion blossoms (again without green), 1 cinnamon stick, mix everything well. Leave to rest in the sun for 2 weeks and fill into glasses again. Secret recipe of my great-grandmother!

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