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Honeysuckle sun tea Honeysuckle tea is as sweet as honeysuckle on the vine. If you like sweet tea, then you're going to love honeysuckle tea. Today I will be showing you how I make homemade honeysuckle sun tea in a sun jar. For my recipe, I don't add any Splenda or sugar because the honeysuckle is naturally sweet.  This tea takes all day to make, so it's something you should begin making early in the morning. When you pick the blossoms for honeysuckle tea, do so without picking any of the green leaves or stems. The rest of the plant may be toxic to consume. The variety I am using is the yellow and white Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica). Honeysuckle sun tea Ingredients: 3 cups of honeysuckle blossoms 3 ½ cups of hot water 1 sun jar is also needed to make this recipe. However, if you don't have a sun jar, this recipe can be made inside on the stovetop. Just steep the honeysuckle blossoms in the hot water.  The jar that I prefer using for making honeysuckle tea is ...

Pine Needle and Pine Cone Tea What do pine needles and pine cone tea taste like? Well, in my opinion, it tastes somewhat bitter without adding sweetener. It's earthy and piney, and of course, it smells like you're steeping a pine tree. Pine tea is loaded with vitamin C, and it's the perfect drink for cold and flu season. However, avoid using pine needles and pine cones from Norfolk Island Pine, Ponderosa Pine, and Yew. These pine varieties are toxic. If you don’t have access to green pine needles, you can use dried pine needles to prepare pine tea. In fact, if you were to buy pine tea, you'd find that the pine needles in the tea bags are dried. So, there's no big difference between collecting dried pine needles or buying them already dried. Dried pine needles contain higher amounts of vitamin C than green pine needles. However, if you prefer a milder tea, you would probably prefer using green pine needles.   To prepare pine needle tea, first collect some pine needle...