The benefits of Black Tea with Lemons Preserved in Honey
Black tea prepared with the best Lemons Preserved in Honey is the ultimate thing to make you feel cosy for long winter evenings with a book or a good film. Also, they are a wonderful thing to boost your immune system and help it fight off bacterias and viruses.
Lemons Preserved in Honey are really worth making at home as you will get a lot of satisfaction from making your own preserve. Plus, you can adjust it perfectly to suit your taste. Also, it is such an easy recipe that there is no way to fail. I made it with 5 Elements, as usual, but there are numerous variations, like the one on cooked.com, which contains different spices. Take a look and compare.
Tips
To prepare Lemons Preserved in Honey use any kind of liquid honey. The proportions below were made for 300 grams but you can use any amount of you have at hand.
If your honey is crystallised, put the jar in a small pot of water and heat it up at very low heat. Make sure the water does not boil as you do not want to boil the honey. Just heat it up for 10-15 minutes stirring from time to time until it gets runny.
If you can, try to get unwaxed lemons and wash them thoroughly.
The procedure
In a medium-sized mixing bowl add the following ingredients:
- Sweet honey,
- Pungent a generous pinch of cayenne pepper (a heaped amount that goes on the tip of a teaspoon),
- Salty a generous pinch of sea salt,
- Sour thin slices of 2 medium-sized lemons (the weight of lemons roughly the same as the weight of honey),
- Bitter a generous pinch of turmeric.
Mix all the ingredients well and leave in the bowl overnight. The honey will combine with lemon juice and the mixture will become runny. That is a natural process. The next day stir the mixture again and transfer to jars. In case there is still some crystallised honey at the bottom of the jars, shake them several times to help it dissolve. For an extra twist you may add to the jar a whole dried chilli pepper.
Serving tips
To serve add 2-3 teaspoons of the honey and a slice of lemon to a cup of good quality black tea. For a variety, you may want to add a splash of rum or gin into your cup of tea. The lemon slices are also edible. The longer they will sit in the honey the sweeter and more flavoursome they will be. To make yourself a perfect evening try the tea together with Fluffy Yeast Pancakes.
