SubscribeRefreshing lemonade on a hot summer day
Ask anyone who has southern roots what they used to drink on a hot summer day and they’ll most likely tell you a tall glass of ice cold lemonade. It quenches the thirst like no other drink on the planet, and it has many health benefits as well.
What I love most about lemonade is that you can drink it hot or cold, and blend it with many other fruits, like strawberries, blueberries, peaches or oranges. It’s delicious, helps to cleanse the palate and is great for our insides, too. It’s also my favorite drink, with or without …
Lemons can also be used medicinally to treat many ailments, like colds and infections. And they can be utilized as a natural disinfectant or a deodorizer on the body and in the house.
The other day, I ran out of hand soap and had garlic on my hands. I wanted to get rid of the smell fast to take a letter from the postman. I remembered my grandmothers telling me to use fresh lemon juice to get rid of the garlic smell, and it worked like magic.
Another drink I make is ginger tea, which is good for upset stomachs. Whenever my children have upset stomachs, I make them tea from fresh ginger root. I also use it to enhance my voice if I’m broadcasting on the radio or I mix it with Turbinado sugar, shea butter and olive oil as a foot scrub (but that’s another blog). The only time I didn’t use ginger was during my pregnancies (those days are long past), because it can be dangerous to the mother.
But both ginger and peppermint can also be used as natural remedies both internally and externally.
So in the midst of a heat wave, a cold glass of natural lemonade is both soothing and refreshing. Just imagine how wonderful it tastes with both ginger and fresh peppermint.
Fatimah’s Peppermint-Ginger-Lemonade
Ingredients:
1 handful of fresh peppermint leaves washed and pulled from the stems
1/3 cup of ginger root, skinned and sliced lengthwise
Juice from 8 lemons (no seeds)
1 cup boiling hot spring or filtered water
½ gallon of cold spring or filtered water
2 cups of ice
½ cup of raw honey or Turbninado sugar (or more to taste)
Directions:
Dissolve honey or sugar in hot water, add the ginger and boil for one minute.
Allow mixture to cool. Mix with lemon juice, cold water and peppermint.
Pour in tall glasses over ice. Garnish with peppermint leaves.
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well, Shea Butter have some special medicinal properties too aside from cosmetic applications .`”