Clover Mint Tea and Cookies
For this recipe I used an English breakfast tea bag, but you could use any black tea you enjoy. For the cookies I used a classic shortbread cookie, but I am curious how these would come out as chocolate chip!
Ingredient: Clover Flowers
A few things we’ve learned about red clover in our research.
- Many foraging, herb, flower and cookbooks left out clovers entirely.
- Red clover’s latin name is Trifolium Pratense, Trifolium meaning “three leaves”, which you see often on clover plants!
- The red clover is the official state flower of Vermont!
- The red clover is more purple, wouldn’t you say?
- Red clover is a member of the legume family, hence, I would imagine, is where it gets its bean-like flavor.
- There are not too many recipes out there being attempted when it comes to eating clover flowers. It seems more about the extraction of the flavor from the flower.
- Red clovers have a medicinal quality, and teas and tinctures are a popular use for them. They are known for soothing coughs and other respiratory distress.
- There are precautions with clover flower use if you are pregnant, a and they have been known to cause bloating in excess.
- One can roll and smoke dried clover petals in an herbal cigarette.
