Morning Shot: Sláinte!

To Good Health!

Fire Cider is an herbal tincture. You can find any number of recipes online that will yield a pleasantly fiery vinegar with a well-balanced blend of spicy, pungent, and citrus flavors infused into raw apple cider vinegar, and finished with a little sweet local honey.

Fire Cider is warmly delicious, whether as a shot or in a salad dressing. It's also a wonderful blend of medicinal herbs! The Fire Cider recipe was developed in early 1980s by Rosemary Gladstar "as part of her effort to bring medicinal herbalism back into people’s kitchens, as part of their food and as a way of being, not just for medicinal purposes." Her original recipe contained garlic, onions, horseradish root, ginger root, hot peppers, sometimes turmeric, and often echinacea; all powerful immune enhancers that help ward off infections, colds, flus, and bronchial congestion.

I have been using Fire Cider this winter, a shot a day (when I remember), to help keep the immune system healthy and to ward off infections, and all told, I've suffered significantly less illness thus far (knock on wood).

This recipe is very close to my own, though I used fresh (chopped) turmeric, and I added a whole chopped orange and some fresh oregano. Use what you have!