Organic Lemon Verbena 15g
R28.00
Lemon verbena is an amazing and often underrated herb that’s highly valued for its therapeutic and health benefits. It also has a wonderful lemony aroma and refreshing flavor.
Typical uses of lemon verbena are as a herb or for steeping to make a delicious lemon flavored herbal tea.
Lemon verbena has been used for centuries, if not millennia. There’s is a long history of its use in traditional medicine for treating colds, fever, anxiety, indigestion, spasms, and insomnia. It is also popular as an infusion for boosting the immune system and a natural aid for weight loss.
It makes a beautiful linen freshener and helps keep unwanted insects away.
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Description
Around the House
Dried lemon verbena mixes with other herbs to make a zesty potpourri that can protect your linen from fishmoths.
Placed in a bowl or cotton bag, the potpourri gives a pleasant, natural scent to the room or cupboard.
Lemon verbena combines well with other dried herbs, such as mint, lavender, chamomile and dried rosebuds and dried lemon zest.
Lemon verbena steeped in a mixture of vinegar and vodka or rubbing alcohol, and then combined with castile soap makes an effective spray cleaner for glass, kitchen counters and other sealed hard surfaces.
Desserts
Use lemon verbena to flavor desserts. For example, a few dried leaves added to sugar cookie dough results in cookies with a mild, tart flavor.
The leaves also add a tangy flavor to pound cake, cheesecake, yellow cake, custard, fruit tarts, ice cream or frozen yogurt.
Add a sprig of lemon verbena to whipped cream for serving over peaches fresh berries, as the lemony flavor complements the flavor of the fruit.
Blended with softened butter and sugar, lemon verbena creates a sweet, tangy topping for hot biscuits or scones.
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