Ginger tea

Just buy a knob of fresh ginger root, cut one or two thin (1mm) slices off it and put it into the brew. You will get a slightly peppery tasting tea. Ginger tea, by the way, is excellent when you suffer from a cold, then I would add a few more slices.

JB

Thanks for your reply. I guess that is for one cup of water?

It is also good for an upset stomach (nausea), it's often flavored with lemon, as in the peel/zest. It is one of my favorites, especially at night when you don't want caffeine.

Thanks for your reply. Still, I need some info on how to prepare it. All I've learned so far, is that it takes two slices of ginger. Now, what do I do with them? Put them in a saucer to boil along with the water (how much water)? Put them into water after it has boiled? Let it boil/steep for how long? Should I use honey? Sugar?

Hi, I get mine from Twinings or other sources, already made, so I can't help you there. Ginger or ginger/lemon is one of the very few types of teas I do take with sugar or honey-and usually sugar to not interfere with the flavor, but that is a matter of taste. You can email me at frayedkarma snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com and I would be happy to drop a couple of tea bags into envelope and post them over to you if you cannot find them.

Hi Ole,

For pregnancy nauseas ? Congratulations !

There are 2 ways to prepare :

1.With green ginger (it's pink in fact), you get the juice of it by grating it and add that juice to hot water. About half a ts of juice per cup, more if you like. Sugar as you like. The taste of raw mature ginger is less pleasant. 2.Ground a lot of normal ginger, add equal quantity of sugar and simmer until you get a jam. Put in jars. You can keep it one or two years. You just need to put 1 ts in a cup and cover with hot water.

You can buy dried/instant version, but it's not so good. A friend bough in Korea an instant that doesn't even contain ginger.

It is common to give it texture with arrow-root. It has even more medicinal properties (for coughing and stomach ache).

Arrow root with ginger and lemon (recipe from a Japanese magazine)

(1 serving) ginger juice 1 ts lemon juice 1 ts arrow root flour 2 tbs honey 1 and 1/2 or 2 tbs water 150 ml

Mix the water and arrow-root in a pan. Put on low heat and simmer constantly until it becomes transparent and a little thick. Add other ingredients. Get away from heat. Serve hot. Eat with a spoon.

Kuri

I've bought a 360g bag of "Instant Ginger Drink", made in Singapore, packaged by an English importer, with the brand name "Gold Kili". Each packet is 18g of ginger and honey, although the label doesn't say how much of each they used. The instructions say to add 250ml of hot water, stir, and drink.

I'm not trying to be flip, but if ginger isn't too expensive where you live, why not experiment? It seems to me the worst thing that could happen is you won't like it.

"Ole Kvaal" wrote in news:SYHXb.4237$ snipped-for-privacy@news2.e.nsc.no:

Perhaps this would help:

FYI; Ole is (a rather common) male name in Norway. :-) Thanks a lot anyway. And thanks a lot for the rest of your reply. I'll try it this very afternoon!

Thanks a lot for your helpfulness and kind offer. But, as I most likely am living at the opposite side of the planet, you really shouldn't bother. I'll just start looking after Twinings Ginger (was that it?) in local stores, but I must admit I can't remember to have seen it anywhere. Norwegians are not at all a teadrinking people, so Lipton Yellow Label tea bags or Twinings Earl Grey is what one usually finds in markets around here.

It's Ginger and Lemon Herb Tea, and I also thought "for a period" meant, oh never mind :) . I hope you feel better, and my offer still stands.

Ah - I finally got your point! I just didn't remember the double meaning of this word in English :-).

I hope you feel better, and my offer still

I really feel quite well, thank you. I was just suffering from insomnia, which seems to be improving now, thanks, perhaps, to less stress at work and intensive qi gong training, and, btw, I'm sorry for all those commas. When it comes to your offer, perhaps I should say 'Yes' and 'Thank you', as my research today seemed to prove there is no such thing as Ginger and Lemon Herb Tea available in my hometown. You're very kind. I'll send my mail address to your private address. Although these bags won't be that heavy, there will still be some postage for you to pay. Sure you mean this? Trondheim is in Norway, and we aren't even a member of the EU . . . . .

trust me, that is only a good thing ...

Pen (drinking her early morning Glenugie BOP and wondering why she left the freedom of Canada to live in the Brussels repression of England)

I believe you, in fact I voted against Norwegian membership at both occasions, but I have to pay the price every time I buy something online from EU countries . . .