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How To Make This Homemade Pine Cough Syrup 🥣

To make this pine cough syrup, you don’t need much time. Foraging for pine needles may be the part that takes the longest unless you have some in your backyard. Once you have these, the recipe takes around 40 minutes to make (10 minutes prep time, 30 minutes steeping).

If you use the quantity of honey below, there will be 11 calories per tablespoon of cough syrup (all the calories come from the honey).

Ingredients 📝

▪️ 1.5 cups of water

▪️ 1 cup pine needles chopped

▪️ 4 tablespoons of honey

▪️ 1 knob of ginger

▪️ Lemon (optional)

Method 🔎

1️⃣ Pull your pine needles off using your hands.

2️⃣ Cut the ends off your pine needles that were attached (where you pulled them off). You can use a sharp knife or scissors to do this.

3️⃣ Wash your pine needles under running water then cut them or chop them in half.

4️⃣ Take the skin off 1 knob of ginger (approximately 1 inch long/wide) and cut the knob of ginger roughly.

5️⃣ Place your ginger pieces and pine needles into a bowl.

6️⃣ Boil 1.5 cups of water and pour it over your ginger and pine needles making sure everything is submerged.

7️⃣ Let everything steep for 30 minutes. You will notice the color has faded from the pine needles.

8️⃣ Then strain out your pine needles and ginger, catching the pine needle water into a bowl or container.

9️⃣ Add 4 tablespoons of honey and stir it well.

🔟 Your cough syrup mixture is ready and you should store this in an airtight container in the fridge.

Take 1 tablespoon when you need relief (up to 8 tablespoons per day). If you find the mixture too sweet you can add a squeeze of lemon each time. Like pine, lemons are also known for their high Vitamin C content and their ability to cut through mucus so make a great addition.

You can store the cough syrup for up to 2 weeks in the fridge. This can be in any container with an airtight lid including a glass jar

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