Recipe: Lime and Ginger 'tea'

[highlyeccentric]

Had a hellish descent into GVA yesterday, the only air experience I've ever had that made me seriously queasy (survived with my dignity and my lunch intact, which is just as well since easyjet had not seen fit to equip our whole row with emergency bags). Spent the early part of the evening feeling rather off-kilter, but invented a rather tasty ginger tea to console myself.

For invented, read 'simplified from this somewhat pretentious recipe'.

About 1.5 tsp minced ginger
About 1 tsp lime juice
About 1 tsp brown sugar (I didn't have honey - I suspect it might be better with 1-1.5 tsp honey)
Boiling water

Mix the first three in the base of a mug, add water.

I'm pretty sure that made in larger quantities and cooled it will make a good summer drink; or the same amount of flavourings with a dash of hot water, cooled, might work as a syrup base for soda water.

Comments

[bohemianmoon]

This sounds good. I have lemon ginger teabags that I drink most often. I’m curious how different the lime flavor would be. Also, as someone who gets airsick (and even movie sick), I feel your pain and am glad lunch stayed down.

[highlyeccentric]

I have never been travel sick in my *life* until, uh, the 21st of December last year. And that might actually have been a bug that just badly co-incided with a National Express bus ride, I was feeling pretty fuckin' weird at brunch. I'm desperately hoping this turbulence thing was a one-off, and not 'actually, Amy, you now have a vulnerability to buses and planes', because... I'm emetephobic. If I turn out to have recurring travel sickness I will NEVER GO ANYWHERE EVER AGAIN.

[bohemianmoon]

Totally understand. I had to leave a movie the other day because I naively thought I could handle sitting in the front row, and it’s happened before even not in the front row. Really glad I wasn’t sick and managed to get home. I’m not sure how I got old like this. Fingers crossed it was a one-off for you.