Tonight's food experiment: horehound tea! #food #foraging #weeds #tea
Wow, that stuff is *bitter*
For the record, steeping horehound. Bringing out all that bitterness for your drinking pleasure, LOL. #horehound
Bitter brew. The stuff on top is actually beeswax, I scooped some raw honey with wax bits in there for sweetener. I apparently should have diluted this! Then sweetened. #horehound #tea
The flavor of horehound at this concentration is essentially the bitterness and similar flavor to the aftertaste of grapefruit, and/or the bitter note of Bergamot in Earl Gray. It definitely requires a strong dilution and a lot more sweetening to temper the strong bitterness. #horehound
@ai6yr I'm most familiar with horehound in candy form, so I associate it with sweet, but I guess that's because it's bitter enough that it needs a lot of sweetening to be palatable.
@ai6yr Think I’ll stick with Earl Grey.
@larand Actually, it does have a very similar flavor to Earl Gray's Bergamot... Albeit, much stronger. It would have to be diluted quite a bit to match.
@larand @ai6yr I'm sticking to Yorkshire. I like dirty greasy black tea; that's just bitter enough.
@W6KME @ai6yr In the morning I like a good strong Irish tea (Barry’s is my go-to). Yorkshire is a great choice too. Earl Grey is my afternoon treat.
@ai6yr Now you know why they mixed it with a bunch of sugar to make candy. Lol.
@ai6yr isn't horehound a sore throat thing?
@MsMerope Yes. Maybe I'll try it if I ever get a sore throat. Actually haven't had a sore throat since the "before times", and I don't miss it.