Preparing healthy dishes and drinks with natural and organic honey base is a good way to start teaching your children about the benefits of a healthy life style.
The linden honey is a very soothing honey with calming effects. The small-leaved linden tree which grows in moist, clay soil and has clusters of small, yellow-white fragrant flowers hanging from slender stems, is common throughout Romania. It’s planted in gardens, parks and along road sides, city streets and boulevards. Linden honey is one of those honey varieties that will completely change the misconception of those who think that honey is no more than just sugared water. It has a light yellow color and a very distinctive yet delicate fresh woody scent. Because of its sedative and antiseptic qualities, it’s one of my favorite honey varieties before bedtime. It is recommended in cases of anxiety and insomnia, whereby honey can be combined with a bath of linden blossoms before sleep. Linden honey is also used in the treatment of colds, cough and bronchitis. If you go in the city of Iasi, in the eastern part of Romania, the Copou street has lots of linden trees. Walking in the evening especially, in May, calms you because of the smell of the flowers from the linden trees. Romania's national poet, Mihai Eminescu, has created some of his best poems under a linden tree that can still be seen after almost 150 years in the Copou Park located on the same street.
