How to Make Mullein Flower Syrup for Cough
One of the benefits of mullein is to treat a cough. To make mullein syrup is very easy. We'll start with picking the flowers. Whenever you're picking flowers from anything even in your own garden, never pick all of them because otherwise you won't get any seeds to set for the following year.
What we're going to do with this is we're going to make a cough syrup and the whole process will take around about three weeks. It's long time but at the end of it we'll end up with a really beautiful golden brown syrup that you can store throughout the winter. You can use for coughs, it's very yummy.
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The plants have got natural amount of liquid in them. Always pick plants preferably mid-morning when it's a nice sunny day. If you pick them early in the morning they'll be a fair amount of dew on them which will make them quite damp, so you really want the dew to have evaporated off a little bit and you know you never ever picked them in the rain obviously because you get too much moisture in them.
To start the process just spread the flowers all over the box. Be carefull, sometimes if you come in and have a look closely you'll see that there's all little black beetles crawling out of them even those beetles will actually fly away in a minute. They've got wings so they fly off as soon as you pick a plant all the insects seem to know that that plant is going to die and they'll just get the hell out of there. This is the easiest way of cleaning them but do not wash them whatever you do. We're going to get it to liquids so just let it sit out in the sunshine for about an hour to see if all the beetles have gone and the flowers still fresh.
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We need clean and sterile jam jars. Turn on oven on up to 200 celcius and prepare the jars that have been washed and clean. Put them upside down on the rack of the oven, do the same thing with the lids upside down in the oven and then leave that in there when the oven has reached temperature. So when the oven has reached temperature just leave the jam jars in there for one minute and then turn the oven off and leave them in the oven to get cold ovens nice and cold.
Take out my clean jars. Squash the flowers down a little bit and put it in the jar for about an inch high there of flowers. Then put in ordinary granulated sugar into the jar you, pour about an equal amount of sugar that's going to pack down in between the flowers. Put another handful of flowers so you've got a layer of flowers and sugar until the jar is full. Put the lid on.
Then leave the whole lot in some sunshine to stand as the flowers and the sugar pack down. We are going to top the jar up with more flowers and more sugar. Come back and pick that up the jar that's been in sunshine for about a week. The flowers have compacted down and the sugar is melting as an all melted. We're going to top this jar up with more mullein flowers and pack them into the jar topped up with sugar and put it again under sunshine about three weeks.
After three weeks since we started the syrup, from picking the flowers and put them in sugar. Prepare a bottle and put the label and date on it to inform when you made the syrup and how long you've had it. Open the jar and take out all the mullein flowers then put on the sieve. You can see it dripping through the sieve. Leave it and do something else and come back probably in about an hour and then have a look at it. Save the mullein syrup in dark bottle that keeps the light of anything that's in the bottle. it's a good idea to store these things in fridge once you've made them so they'll be dark and they'll be cool.
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Read also: Mullein Flower Essence Benefits
The plants have got natural amount of liquid in them. Always pick plants preferably mid-morning when it's a nice sunny day. If you pick them early in the morning they'll be a fair amount of dew on them which will make them quite damp, so you really want the dew to have evaporated off a little bit and you know you never ever picked them in the rain obviously because you get too much moisture in them.
To start the process just spread the flowers all over the box. Be carefull, sometimes if you come in and have a look closely you'll see that there's all little black beetles crawling out of them even those beetles will actually fly away in a minute. They've got wings so they fly off as soon as you pick a plant all the insects seem to know that that plant is going to die and they'll just get the hell out of there. This is the easiest way of cleaning them but do not wash them whatever you do. We're going to get it to liquids so just let it sit out in the sunshine for about an hour to see if all the beetles have gone and the flowers still fresh.
Read also: Mullein for Respiratory Problems
We need clean and sterile jam jars. Turn on oven on up to 200 celcius and prepare the jars that have been washed and clean. Put them upside down on the rack of the oven, do the same thing with the lids upside down in the oven and then leave that in there when the oven has reached temperature. So when the oven has reached temperature just leave the jam jars in there for one minute and then turn the oven off and leave them in the oven to get cold ovens nice and cold.
Take out my clean jars. Squash the flowers down a little bit and put it in the jar for about an inch high there of flowers. Then put in ordinary granulated sugar into the jar you, pour about an equal amount of sugar that's going to pack down in between the flowers. Put another handful of flowers so you've got a layer of flowers and sugar until the jar is full. Put the lid on.
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Then leave the whole lot in some sunshine to stand as the flowers and the sugar pack down. We are going to top the jar up with more flowers and more sugar. Come back and pick that up the jar that's been in sunshine for about a week. The flowers have compacted down and the sugar is melting as an all melted. We're going to top this jar up with more mullein flowers and pack them into the jar topped up with sugar and put it again under sunshine about three weeks.
After three weeks since we started the syrup, from picking the flowers and put them in sugar. Prepare a bottle and put the label and date on it to inform when you made the syrup and how long you've had it. Open the jar and take out all the mullein flowers then put on the sieve. You can see it dripping through the sieve. Leave it and do something else and come back probably in about an hour and then have a look at it. Save the mullein syrup in dark bottle that keeps the light of anything that's in the bottle. it's a good idea to store these things in fridge once you've made them so they'll be dark and they'll be cool.
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