For the uninitiated, fire cider is a blend of spices and fruits you likely use every day, steeped in raw apple cider vinegar for about a month, strained, and mixed with honey. The combination of these powerful ingredients, each in their own right superfoods, makes for a get-well, stay-well addition to your herbal/holistic medicine cabinet. This blend is great for immunity, colds, stuffy sinuses, digestion, and soooo much more.
ALL INGREDIENTS ARE ORGANIC!
Ingredients: ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, rosemary, orange, lemon, onion, garlic, hot pepper flakes, horseradish powder (baggie)
Essentially you dump the contents of the bag into an appropriate-sized glass vessel (ideally a mason jar!), cover it with apple cider vinegar, put a little parchment paper or plastic wrap between the lid and the liquid, and let it sit in a warm place with occasional shaking for up to 3-4 weeks. Strain out the solids, add honey to taste, and store in the fridge up to a year.
Serving size is 1TSP or so a day when not fighting illness. but really, there’s no way you could reasonably harm yourself with these ingredients, since you’re already eating them in other applications in your kitchen. If you can chug enough of this to give yourself indigestion, I would be impressed! Obviously, don’t do that haha.
I strongly recommend using RAW apple cider vinegar with the Mother, which is a strain of beneficial bacteria with more studies proving its health benefits than I could name. Aldi sells a good-sized, well priced glass bottle of it that I use for this application.
I also recommend using RAW honey, for the same beneficial bacteria reason. This ensures the honey has not been heated, and as such has all its benefits intact. Heating honey kills all the good, medicinal qualities of it; you’re essentially consuming sugar water. This applies to tea, too, by the way! Ensure your tea is fingertip-touchable without burning your skin, and you know it will be cool enough for your honey not to be harmed.
This recipe is based off the famous Rosemary Gladstar (a famous herbalist, you should read her stuff) version, and is dehydrated for convenience.
NOTE: dehydrated foodstuffs still retain up to 10-15% of their moisture, which can make it more susceptible to molding. Please reach out to me at cornerstonetea@yahoo.com if you receive your fire cider mix and there is mold in it - I will refund or replace it, happily. I sincerely doubt that will be an issue, though, as I intend to do weekly or biweekly dehydrator runs so these fire cider mixes will always be less than three weeks old, I would hazard. I would strongly encourage you to use this within a week of receiving it, or else stick it in the fridge.
For the uninitiated, fire cider is a blend of spices and fruits you likely use every day, steeped in raw apple cider vinegar for about a month, strained, and mixed with honey. The combination of these powerful ingredients, each in their own right superfoods, makes for a get-well, stay-well addition to your herbal/holistic medicine cabinet. This blend is great for immunity, colds, stuffy sinuses, digestion, and soooo much more.
ALL INGREDIENTS ARE ORGANIC!
Ingredients: ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, rosemary, orange, lemon, onion, garlic, hot pepper flakes, horseradish powder (baggie)
Essentially you dump the contents of the bag into an appropriate-sized glass vessel (ideally a mason jar!), cover it with apple cider vinegar, put a little parchment paper or plastic wrap between the lid and the liquid, and let it sit in a warm place with occasional shaking for up to 3-4 weeks. Strain out the solids, add honey to taste, and store in the fridge up to a year.
Serving size is 1TSP or so a day when not fighting illness. but really, there’s no way you could reasonably harm yourself with these ingredients, since you’re already eating them in other applications in your kitchen. If you can chug enough of this to give yourself indigestion, I would be impressed! Obviously, don’t do that haha.
I strongly recommend using RAW apple cider vinegar with the Mother, which is a strain of beneficial bacteria with more studies proving its health benefits than I could name. Aldi sells a good-sized, well priced glass bottle of it that I use for this application.
I also recommend using RAW honey, for the same beneficial bacteria reason. This ensures the honey has not been heated, and as such has all its benefits intact. Heating honey kills all the good, medicinal qualities of it; you’re essentially consuming sugar water. This applies to tea, too, by the way! Ensure your tea is fingertip-touchable without burning your skin, and you know it will be cool enough for your honey not to be harmed.
This recipe is based off the famous Rosemary Gladstar (a famous herbalist, you should read her stuff) version, and is dehydrated for convenience.
NOTE: dehydrated foodstuffs still retain up to 10-15% of their moisture, which can make it more susceptible to molding. Please reach out to me at cornerstonetea@yahoo.com if you receive your fire cider mix and there is mold in it - I will refund or replace it, happily. I sincerely doubt that will be an issue, though, as I intend to do weekly or biweekly dehydrator runs so these fire cider mixes will always be less than three weeks old, I would hazard. I would strongly encourage you to use this within a week of receiving it, or else stick it in the fridge.
