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INPRIMATU
From flower to beverage
  • Baga: As you enter the spring of the calendar, the day is longer than the night. Biga: the average time has been tempered. Higa: The season's friendly rain has visited us every year. Samuel: the earth has warmed up. 1+2+3+4= 10, almost eleven endless circles. Since there is no round circle with the plants, when we examine them we must leave at least an interval of ten to eleven. Despite the uncertainty, when these four conditions have been met, many plants cling to the decision to flourish and set in motion.
Jakoba Errekondo 2022ko apirilaren 26a
Armiarma, ezkiaren lorean erlea ehizatuta daukala.

One of them is the white mosquito (Crataegus monogyna). It is said that until the white hawthorn flourishes, spring has not really come. From this flowering there will be no more ice and the plants that give the summer harvest can be planted peacefully in the orchard: tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), bell pepper (Capsicum annuum), apricot (Solanum melongena), pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo), zucchini (Cucurbita pepo var). pepo), maize (Zea mays), bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), etc. I don't know what spina flower has, most people don't like its smell but it attracts a lot of pollinating insects: bees, bees, bumblebees, wasps, flies, sirfidos ... And, of course, spiders waiting for them to be hunted, like vetia Misumena, changing thomise and spider crab. Crab is said because it can move transversally in its form. Because it's from the Thomisidae family because the thomise and the changing one will take the color of the flower that is hiding to hunt pollinators.

Intsusa (Sambucus nigra) is also flourishing now. The smell of this flower is not entirely sweet either, I would say it is brown; it has a sweet tip, but also of salty and bitter. Abundant in humid areas and with a characteristic odor and splendid flowering of great white and white flowers on a new live foliage, its place of residence is perceived from far away. The flower is given in large flattened groups and, being also the place of visit of many pollinators, its hunting grounds are beautiful. The pollinated and fertilized flower will give a fruit that will channel the seed. Small fruit from the elderberry is increasingly seen as food ingredients. Gelatines, jams, sweets, refreshing drinks, liquors... They have a good sweet spot and paint it all in a bright dark red color. At the end of the summer, if you want to make liquor when you arrive: macerate a liter of pound and a half fruit in spirits, if you want to add some other fruit or herb; filter a month and add a caramel of half a liter of water and 100-250 grams of sugar.

Without having to wait for the fruits, you can now make an excellent refreshment with the flower: put in a 3 liter container that closes well, 6-8 flowers and 3 chopped lemons, 2 teaspoons of fresh yeast and add 2.5 liters of juice of 2 lemons mixed in water and 100 grams of sugar or honey. We put a couple of fingers on top, and we close. Keep it in a cool place and on the third day we will hang it and put it in the fridge. You'll tell me...

If these tasks are difficult, it is easier to drink by infusion or eat fried foods. Good profit!