Late afternoon sun streaming through May Wine.
This herbal delight is traditionally made in Germany with Reisling wine on May 1st to celebrate Spring. This jug barely made May here in Upper Black Eddy for the sweet woodruff has just blossomed. We won’t talk about the weather (grumble, grumble).
May Wine
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Recipe By: Sheila McDuffie
Serves: 1 bottle
Ingredients
- 1 bottle Reisling or Prosecco
- 12 sweet woodruff stems with leaves and flowers
- ½ lemon, sliced into thin circles
- Strawberries or raspberries to serve
Instructions
- Place wine in a carafe.
- Plunge sweet woodruff into very hot water for 1 second.
- Place sweet woodruff and lemons in the carafe of wine.
- Refrigerate for a few hours.
- Serve in a glass with sliced strawberries or whole raspberries.
Sweet woodruff, Galium odoratum, is a shade-loving perennial herb that forms a lovely ground cover with it’s aromatic evergreen leaves and tiny white flowerets. Dry the leaves and flowers to use in potpourri and moth repellent.
XO
Sheila
For Tegan and Johannes (getting married in Berlin!!!)