Recipe Box: Damiana Love Cordial

This one went to someone who already sees unicorns,
so they should be fine.

I've spoken about cordial-making before, and wanted to share with you a few of my most recent batches, and their basic recipes.

Damiana is a flowering herb that I am quite fond of in both flavor and effect.  I've already rhapsodized about her beauty on this blog.

Damiana Love Cordial - a Basic Recipe

• Play some sexy music and set the mood. (optional, but encouraged) 


• Fill your jar of choice half-full with damiana. Add any other herbs that make you feel tingly, happy, and naughty.  Some suggestions are rose petals, vanilla bean, honeysuckle flowers, horny goat weed, muira pauma...


• Add booze!  In this case, I used a good quality, clean-flavored vodka.  Fill the jar up to the top!


• Close jar, swish to mix it all together, and put into a dark cabinet.  Shake it occasionally.


• Six weeks later, strain the mixture, and squeeze the liquid out of the herbs.  Add the herbs to your compost.


• Make a sugar syrup, or honey syrup to sweeten.  The cordial in the picture above was done with honey, hence the near opaque quality of the delicious nectar!

The Sweetened Essence of Earl Grey is subtitled with
"A Drink for Gentlemen, A Drink for Rogues"

These two bottles are at Dragon*Con at this very moment, in the hands of a puppeteer, warming the tips of earlobes and tingling toes and tongues and other giggly extremities of beautiful geeks.  Travel safe, and bring delight!