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How to Make a Healing Herbal Broth

Herbal broth is the preparation that lives most naturally at the intersection of cooking and medicine. It is soup’s more deliberate ancestor: a slow-simmered liquid that extracts the mineral, medicinal, and nutritive properties of both food ingredients and...

Making Herbal Vinegars: A Practical Guide

Herbal vinegars occupy a curious position in home herbalism: they are among the oldest preparation methods (vinegar-based medicines appear in the Greek medical texts), they extract a different profile of plant constituents than either water or alcohol, they are...

A Guide to Herbal Glycerites

A glycerite is a herbal preparation made with vegetable glycerine (glycerol) as the solvent rather than alcohol or water. Glycerine is a thick, sweet liquid produced from plant oils (usually palm or soy, though look for sustainably sourced versions), and it has...

Elderflower Preparations: Beyond Cordial

Elderflower cordial is one of Britain’s great summer traditions, and it is genuinely delicious. But most people who make the cordial do not realize that the same flower heads, processed differently, yield preparations that are medicinally significant and...

Making a Herb-Infused Honey with Summer Flowers

Midsummer is one of the best times of year to make infused honeys because the range of aromatic flowering herbs available is at its peak: lavender, chamomile, elderflower, calendula, rose, lemon balm, and rosemary all flower or peak within a relatively short window,...

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