Making Remedies: Garlic Honey
Garlic (Allium sativum) a home herbalists best friend! If you like cooking you likely already have garlic in you kitchen. You might say to yourself, “Sure garlic is tasty, but what medicinal use does it have?” Garlic has been well studied for heart health support and aiding the body in normalizing blood pressure. It is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal (meaning it inhibits the ability of bacteria and fungus from replicating). Garlic is also highly aromatic and helpful in breaking up mucus in the lungs.
If I could, I would just eat a raw clove of garlic everyday. See this post for how much I love garlic. However, raw garlic does tend to be spicy and burn a little on the way down. It becomes much easier to swallow infused in some delicious raw honey.
Garlic honey is perfect for taking when you have a sore throat that needs soothing or congestion in your lungs. It lasts for months and if you don’t need it for because you don’t get sick often, you use it to make a honey mustard garlic dressing for salads!
Making an infused honey is super easy. In fact it will take you longer to read this than to prep this honey to infuse. Let’s get to it!
(Little note: (Note: I am not a medical professional. The tips below are for educational purposes only and meant to encourage further learning for your own health path. )
Garlic Honey Recipe
Ingredients:
5-6 garlic cloves
enough honey to cover
pint mason jar
Directions:
Start by skinning your garlic. You can do this by gentily crushing it with your palm against a cutting board or using the bottom of the mason jar and pushing down gently. You want to break the skin without bruising the garlic. (Some recipes call for chopping the garlic finely so you can eat it along with the honey. However, I find that the garlic floats to the top of the honey and I have to filter it out after the infusion process is done. So I put the gentily cracked cloves in whole. )
Next put the cloves in the mason jar and cover with honey. Cover the jar with a lid or cheese cloth and let infuse in a warm, but dark spot. If the garlic comes to the top simply use a clean spoon to push it under the surface of the honey again.
You can let your honey infuse for a couple of day or up to a week depending on how strong you want it. Once it’s ready, filter out the garlic and consume when needed.
If you have tried garlic honey before leave me a comment below and tell me your experience. I’d love to hear from you.
