Had a
really busy weekend. Saturday I visited local farmers market and I got some
nice peppers and purple cabbage seedlings so I had to plant them (and make a
new garden bed for it), also was busy with some other stuff I had to do, and I
also had to make elder juice. That was on my schedule on Sunday so that’s why I
didn’t write about plantain herb ( I promise I’ll get back to that soon). As
you can guess today I’ll write about elder tree and elder juice. Do you have
elder somewhere near your home? I have more than plenty. Do you like elder
juice? I do. Most perfect juice you could ever have is elder juice. Only thing
better than that is your own homemade elder juice. If you never tried making it
at home, don’t worry it’s quite simply. It’s good for your body too – it helps
body release toxics and is good for heart. For some 7 liters of juice (I’m not
exactly sure how much because I make lot of juice, but this is basic
recipe)which you later mix with water you need 40 elder flowers, 4 kg of sugar,
7 liters of waters, half kilos of lemon and some citric acid. Pick elder tree
flowers somewhere away of roads and try to pick nice white ones (especially
without bugs on it). When you get home take some bigger pot and put elder tree
flowers in it – but clean them from sprigs and petioles. You want only flowers.
you don't want ones with bugs on it
After that, take 3 liters of water and pour it in a pot. You can mix it if you
want and leave flowers in water for 24 hours.
Next day, take your sugar and mix
it with 4 liters of water until its nice syrupy thing. Leave it until its cool.
While you’re waiting for your sugary water to cool down (and it can take some
time), take colander and strain water with elder flowers.
As you can see in
pictures I used colander and sieve to make sure I get it clean from small
flowers and parts of it. When you’re done with that, take some citric acid (I’d
say you put 2-3 tea spoons of it) and lemon juice and mix it with that elder flower
water. You now only need to mix sugary water into it and that’s it. You can now
pour your juice into bottles. If you
want to enjoy it longer, you can put in a freezer. Quick tip for all of you who
want to have nice clean face – take juice and mix it with water in 1:3 ratio
and clean your face with it.
From elder tree flowers you can also make jelly (I’ll make it soon and tell you more about it then and you can easily dry it to make tea (if you’re going to dry it, have in mind it should not change color and become black). Also, you can use leaves and from elder berries (which you can find on tree, if you didn’t take a flower, in September) you can make nice marmalade and juice but you have to cook them first, since they are poisonous if you eat them raw. About elder berries I’ll talk more in September.
Speaking of
elder tree, did you know it’s one of the oldest plants in Europe and it has all
kind of herbal uses. Flower, if used as tee is good for curing flu and cold, tonsillitis
and all kind of bronchial problems and clean the body from toxics. If you have
children with chickenpox give them tea made from elder flowers, it will make
recovery go faster. As I said, you can
also use leaves of elder tree – use them when they are fully formed and you can
squash them and put them on painful place. You can put it on your temple if you
have headache.
For the end
of the post quick stroll through my garden
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Vikend mi je bio pretrpan. U subotu sam posjetila lokalnu
tržnicu i nabavila sadnice paprike i ljubičastog kupusa, pa sam to morala i
posaditi (i napraviti novu podignutu gredicu), bila sam zauzeta i nekim drugim
stvarima, a morala sam napraviti i sok od baze. To je bilo na nedjeljnom rasporedu, pa zato nisam stigla pisati o trputcu (vratit ću se na tu temu nekad
uskoro). Kao što pretpostavljate, danas ću pisati o soku od bazge. Imate li
bazgu u blizini svoga doma? Ja je imam i više nego dovoljno. Volite li sok od
bazge? Ja obožavam. Najsavršeniji sok ikada. Jedino bolje od njega je sok od
bazge koji si sam napravio. Uz to, dobar je i za tijelo – pomaže organizmu u
oslobađanju štetnih tvari i dobar je za srce. Za nekih 7 litara soka (nisam
točno sigurna koliko, jer uvijek radim puno više soka, ali ovo je osnovni
recept) koji kasnije miješate s vodom, potrebno je 40 cvjetova bazge , 4 kg
šećera , 7 litara vode , pola kilograma limuna i malo limunske kiseline.
Birajte cvijeće bazge koja raste daleko od prometnica i pokušajte ubrati one
lijepe bijele (bez raznih bubica na njima ). Kad dođete kući uzmite neku veću
posudu i stavite cvijeće u njega - ali očistite ga od grančica i peteljki.
Trebate samo cvijeće. Nakon toga, uzmite 3 litre vode i ulijte ju u lonac s bazgom.
Možete malo promiješati i ostavite cvijeće u vodi 24 sata.
Ako želite duže uživati u njemu, spremite ga u zamrzivač. Brzi savjet za sve vas koji želite imati lijepo čisto lice - uzmite sok i pomiješajte ga s vodom u omjeru 1:3 i s time očistite svoje lice.
Od cvijeća bazge također možete napraviti marmeladu (uskoro
mi je u planu i nakon što ju napravim reći ću vam nešto više o tome), a možete
ga i jednostavno osušiti i napraviti čaj (pripazite da cvijeće tijekom sušenja
ne promijeni boju i ne postane crno) . Također , možete koristiti bazge, a od
bobica (možete ih naći na stablima s kojih niste ubrali cvijeće, u rujnu )
možete napraviti pekmez i sok. Bobice prvo morate prokuhati, jer su otrovne ako
ih konzumirate sirove. O bobicama bazge više će biti riječi u rujnu.
Govoreći o bazgi, jeste li znali da je to jedna od
najstarijih i najljekovitijih biljaka u Europi? Cvijet se koristi za liječenje
gripe i prehlade, angina i svih vrsta problema s bronhijama i čisti tijelo od
štetnih tvari . Ako imate djecu s vodenim kozicama čaj od bazge ubrzat će
njihov oporavak. Kao što sam rekla, možete koristiti i lišće bazge - koristite
ih kad su u potpunosti formirani, a možete ih zgnječiti i staviti na bolno
mjesto. Ako imate glavobolju, namažite njime sljepoočnice.
Za kraj, brza šetnja kroz moj vrt
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