5 Recipes warming honey drinks

For anybody not a secret - the beginning of autumn is the most difficult for the body and immune system while so many suffer from colds. To your body it easier to deal with threats, we need to help him, and, as you know, one of the best helpers from colds and flu is honey. In this article we will discuss 5 of the most delicious and healthy hot beverages that can be prepared on the basis of the most famous natural healer - honey.

Honey drinks were familiar to the inhabitants of Ancient Greece: in the poem "the Iliad" Homer described, as for the Greek warriors Alameda prepared kikeon - refreshing honey drink. Loved these drinks and the ancient Aztecs, who lived on the territory of modern Mexico, and the Germans, who invented flavored honey drinks fragrant herbs, even in Ethiopia since ancient times known honey drink, today called "tej". At us in Russia the honey was a favorite drink until the XV century, when the ancient Rus learned to cook bread wine, then due to the development of the sugar industry of the Russian winemaking has replaced many of the old traditions with them and love honey drinks. But not until the end of today many of the Housewives love to cook honey drinks in the off-season periods, when our immune system needs help, and in the summer of honey we are preparing a nice refreshing drink.

Recipes for warming honey drinks

Honey as a basis for making different drinks, after all, is not forgotten at all, and it's just wonderful! Here we are, in order to remind about how you can help your health in the fall, decided to collect for you the recipes of the most delicious and healthy honey beverages.

Recipes for drinks with honey there is a lot of honey combined with juices, herbal teas, milk or just water, adding different spices. We will discuss the different types of drinks.

The first recipe - honey and herbs: Honey-lime hot drink

You will need: 1 litre water 100g of honey and 6 tsp. of dried Linden flowers.

How to make honey-lime drink. Pour lime flowers (they are available for sale in any drugstore) boiling water, cover and 10-12 min to leave, then strain the broth, add the honey, stir and serve a hot drink.

This drink is very useful for colds. Will also be useful prepared in the same way the drinks of honey with mint and chamomile (per 1l of water 100g of honey 3 tsp. chamomile and mint leaves and honey with chamomile and rosehip (1 litre water 2 tsp. chamomile flowers, 100g honey and 30g of dried rosehips).

The second recipe - milk and honey: Milk & honey warm drink with juice

You will need: 2 cups of boiled milk, 1 Cup juice of raspberries/strawberries, 3 tbsp of honey.

How to make honey-milk drink with juice. Milk is boiled and slightly cooled, add the juice and honey, stir and serve the drink in the form of heat.

In the summer of this drink can also be cooked, but served already chilled.

The third recipe - honey and syrup: Honey lemonade hot

You will need: 800ml of boiling water temperature of 60-70 degrees, 100g lemon syrup, 70 ml raspberry syrup 30g of honey.

How to cook hot honey lemonade. Add syrups and honey in hot water, stir and serve in glasses and garnish with a circle cleared of lemon zest.

You can prepare this drink a little differently: mix 25g lemon and 20 g of raspberry syrup, add 150ml of hot water and 10g of honey.

The fourth recipe - honey and coffee: Coffee, honey drink

You will need: 1 liter of boiling water, 100g coffee natural, 1 lemon (juice), 4-6ct.l. the honey.

How to make a coffee drink with honey. Natural coffee boiled in a liter of boiling water, then through cheesecloth to filter. To give the coffee to cool to 60 degrees, pour in the juice of 1 lemon and add the honey, stir and serve.

Recipe fifth - best Russian drink: Mead spicy (quick and easy recipe)

You will need: 1 Cup of boiling water, spices - ginger, cinnamon, cloves, Bay leaf, black peppercorn, 1 tbsp. of honey.

How to cook quickly sbiten spicy. Water to boil, put spices and 3-5 minutes to boil, cover, wrap with a towel, let stand 5-10 minutes, then put the honey, stir, strain and serve a hot drink.

Regularly preparing such wonderful honey hot drinks, you and your family will forget about what the cold. Be healthy, drink good drinks and don't forget Russian traditions!