[Recipe] Lemon tea

As I have promised on my previous post of natural ginger tea, today I am going to share an easy recipe to make lemon honey essence for lemon tea! I feel I am pretty well prepared for brutal winter after I’ve got my jar of ginger and lemon essence. Lots of vitamins to fight cold winter.

First, what you need…
a clean class jar, mandoline or sharp knife, Organic Agave or Brown sugar and scale

Clean the glass jar in the boiling water with baking soda (2t)

If you don’t have a big pot to put all the glass jars (or feel lazy), put hot water and baking soda in the jar. Shake it and wait for 10-15 minutes. Rinse it out and completely dry it before you use it

In a mean time, let’s clean lemon. Put vinegar (2T) , salt (1t) and baking soda (1t) in the water and wash it thoroughly

Let it sit in the vinegar water for 5-10 minutes

To get rid of the coating on the surface, put cleaned lemons in the boiling water. We will toast the lemons just for a few seconds (30 sec ~ 1 min). Make sure that you cover all the surface. Bring toasted lemons into cold water and dry them

Slice lemon with mandoline or sharp knife. Make sure that you sort all the seeds out!

Do you remember the layering the jar with ginger and sugar on my previous post of making natural ginger tea? IT IS THE SAME PROCEDURE! Measure exact amounts of sliced lemons and prepare the SAME AMOUNT OF BROWN SUGAR (sweeter and thicker) or AGAVE (healthier and milder ). In the jar, put 1/5 of the lemon slices first and put 1/5 of your choice of sweetener. Keep layering lemon slices and sweetener and pour all the lemon juices at the end

This time, I did use both organic brown sugar and organic blue agave. It is a perfect warm present for friends and family in winter! I gave one jar with blue agave (since it is healthier) to my pregnant friend and hopefully she is enjoying it now!

Make sure you put the lemon jar in the room temperature for a day and keep it in the fridge

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!