April 3, 2025 • 18 mins
Wild violets are more than just pretty flowers! They're edible and have a range of culinary and medicinal uses. Here's a breakdown of what you can do with them:Culinary Uses:
- Salads:
- Both the flowers and young leaves can be added to salads for a slightly sweet and peppery flavor.
- Candied Violets:
- The flowers can be candied for use as decorative toppings on cakes and desserts.
- Violet Sugar:
- Infuse sugar with violet petals for a fragrant and colorful sweetener.
- Violet Syrup:
- Create a violet syrup for use in drinks, desserts, and even ice cream.
- Violet Vinegar:
- Infuse vinegar with violet flowers for a unique vinaigrette or marinade.
- Teas:
- Dried violet flowers can be used to make a soothing herbal tea.
- Jellies and Honeys:
- Violets can be used to create flavorful jellies and infused honeys.
- Added to cooked foods:
- The leaves can be sauteed or added to soups.
- Respiratory Health:
- Violets have expectorant properties and can be used to soothe coughs and congestion.
- Anti-inflammatory:
- They possess anti-inflammatory properties that may help with various ailments.
- Skin Care:
- Violets can be used in salves and poultices to soothe skin irritations.
- Nutritional Value:
- The leaves are a good source of vitamins A and C.
- Decorative:
- The flowers can be used as a beautiful garnish for dishes and drinks.
- Crafts:
- They can be used in craft projects, such as pressing them for use in art.
- Identification:
- Make absolutely sure you correctly identify wild violets before consumption.
- Harvesting:
- Harvest violets from areas free of pesticides and pollutants.
- Moderation:
- As with any wild food, consume violets in moderation.
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Speaker 3 (00:03):
We don't know what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I definitely every time I think I know what I'm doing,
I find out I'm so very wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, so okay, So the overview is that we're trying
to start a series where we spend anywhere from five
minutes to fifteen minutes talking about a certain plant. So
we wanted to start with wild violet since they are.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Invasive as crap.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I just pulled a ton of them out of our
front garden that where we don't want them out and
for years and years and years and years, Blake spend
like this weed is we got to destroy it, and
I'm like, no, They're so pretty and I'm pretty sure
they're edible, and so they are.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So all I did because this is your this is your.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Area department pathway that you know way more about herbs
and plants and stuff that I do, and I'm working
on it. But you've been a wealth of information for me.
So I just wanted to bring you on here and
share you with the world because we all want to
know what to do with wild violets since they are
freaking everywhere in Alabama anyway where we're at.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So yeah, go ahead, what's our zone? Because it changed
right seven.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
We are in seven B right now, right now, but yeah,
it was seven A and then it changed to seven B,
which is slightly more tropical. But I still don't believe
it because we keep having these weird like freak freezes
out of nowhere that well, I say out of nowhere,
but they're like out of character for seven B. So
(01:57):
you know, even if it gets that way for three days,
is it's still enough to kill your plants if you're
planting more tropical type things. So I don't trust.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It, okay, So stick with seven A.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah that's what I do. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So that's where we're located anyway. So tell us what
you know about wild violence. And all I did was
plug in to Gemina, which is AI, you.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Know Google Ai.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I said, tell me everything I can do with wild violets.
So you go and I fill in the blanks with
what gem and I said, okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
First of all, they are very prolific. I was trying
to think the word was escape of me. I was
going out to check my mailbox today and I have
an asphalt driveway and there was like this teeny tiny,
like one inch crack in my driveway and I saw
something purple, and I was like, what is that? Because
(02:55):
you know, I'm always looking at the ground. I'm either
looking for rocks or looking for plants, and I seen
something purple, so I looked at it closer and it
was a little wild violet growing in that teeny dinny
crack and the asphalt.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But yeah, we just redid the front garden, so we
had to get them all out. And I was like, look,
make sure you dig up the roots because that's how
they're going to come right back if you don't, and
they're gonna take over everything. And he was like, where
did they come from in the first place.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I said the air.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He was insistent that I had planted them. He was like, no,
you threw all sorts of wild seeds. I was like, no, no,
these come from the air.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I don't know how they spread so much through those rhizomes,
But I mean, I wonder. It does make you wonder,
like it does the flower produce I don't even know this,
Like does the flower also produce a seed that birds
eat or something that you know they poop it out
in various places. I don't know, So what I know,
(04:02):
I've got to look at my notes. What I know
is that they are edible and medicinal. The flowers are
kind of peppery tasting, but like not nearly as strong
as something like nasturtium, so they're a little peppery. You
can use the flowers to like decorate cakes, or freeze
(04:27):
them in ice cubes and put them in your drinks
to make them look pretty. You can just throw them
in salads to make salads look prettier. Let's see. You
can make like a simple syrup and make like a
purple syrup to make like to mix things with, like
(04:48):
mixed drinks and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Are all parts edible, like the leaves, the flowers, all.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The parts above cre I don't. I've never seen anything
that said, and not just because I've never seen it
doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. But I've never seen
anything that's said that the rhizomes or the root was edible,
So therefore I've never eaten that part.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I just googled it and it said that the roots
are generally not considered editable and are best avoided. Okay, well, great,
don't eat the roots everything above the ground.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yes, so they taste good, they're peppery, you can make
jelly and syrup out of them. It makes like a
really pretty light, pinkish purple jelly or syrup. They have
a lot of vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, and magnesium,
(05:53):
and they are anti inflammatory, so I always use them
mostly for tea. It's supposed to promote sleep, but I
don't know that I've you know, I'm really high strong,
so it kind of takes a lot to knock me
down tonight. So so they may work for other people
(06:17):
for sleep benefits, but I have not experienced that personally myself.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's arguably too that you would. If it's good for sleep,
it's oftentimes good for anxiety as well.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, probably, yeah, yeah, But they are an expectorant. So
if you're having like lung issues like colds, bronchottas, flew
anything where you have a lot of like stuff you
want to cough up and get out of your body,
a good strong tea with though with wild violets, it's good.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Would you say, you'd say, like just a handful of
fresh flowers.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, generally I go by the rule of thumb for
about two to three tablespoons of fresh flowers and leaves
to you know, eight to ten ounces of water. If
it's dried, you'll probably want to knock that down to
like two teaspoons. But this time of the year, there's.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So dried is more potent.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You're saying yes, so because you would think it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I think it's just because the water evaporates out
of it, so it's just kind of more concentrated.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, okay, so we're starting from scratch air.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm going to write that down so that we can
put it in the show notes below. So you said
two tablespoons fresh, Yeah, two to three tablespoons fresh for
eight ounces of water, and then knock that down to
(08:08):
how much.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Dried one to two tea spoon stride cool, all right,
so mm hmm. So they're an immune stimulant and an expectorant,
so if you're not feeling well, they're good for that.
They also contain salicilic acid. So did I pronounce that
(08:34):
You're smiling like I pronounced it different than you do.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No, No, it just reminded me of psychedelic mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Silent Now I can't say it now, I can't. Everyone
everybody is listening to this trying to figure out and
remember how to pronounce it correctly. That's what we've done,
buttered it. Yeah, salacilic acid, which is good for disinfecting
(09:12):
and fungal there. It's anti fungal, so it's good for
like skin irritations and stuff like that. So like a poultice,
if you make a poultice where you just kind of
like chop and mush up the leaves and stems to
mix it with a little bit of water and then
(09:32):
you can like wrap that in galls and put it
on like skin infections or inflamed skin or anything like that,
it will help promote like wound healing and antibacterial infection stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I didn't realize how many notes I was going to
need to take, but I need to get a whole
notebook out for the next step. But you know, the
first one's always the hardest.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So AI says that you can add them to salads
and backs you up on having a sweet.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And peppery flavor. You can do candied.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Violets, apparently, for it doesn't tell me what candied violets
are though, it just says as decorative toppings. Let's see
what are candied violets preserved in sugar, primarily used as
(10:41):
beautiful and elegant decorative garnishes for desserts. Essentially violet flowers
that have been crystallized with sugar. The process preserves the
delicate beauty and adds a sweet floral flavor.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So we're not gonna it's not giving me much information
on how to do that, but we don't really care.
You can google it specifically if you want to. You
can make violet sugar, which is infuse sugar with violet
petals first. That you would just take like a jar
of sugar and mix petals into it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
How aesthetically pleasing. That's so charming. That's yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I loved them, and then they started crowding out all
of my other plants, so I'm starting to hate them,
But then reading up on all the things that they're
good for makes me like them again a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Start doing things with them. Yeah, you can do go ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I would think that probably if you're harvesting a lot
of the leaves and stuff like that for you know,
for us in that it would probably slow down the
growth and how fast they would like take over, because
you know it's got to you know, more energy is
going to regrowing new leaves and stuff versus they're doing
(12:08):
great and have all the leaves to photosynthesize, So we're
gonna spread roots everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Are are we making the tea out of the leaves
and the flowers or just the flowers?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You can use both for the leaves or for the tea.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, okay, so they pretty much have the same properties,
the leaves and the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, the the flowers are just kind of more of
the peppery. But really, when you put it in tea,
you don't taste peppery. It's more the peppery taste to me,
has always been more in like when you're eating just
chewing up a leaf, you know, you kind of taste
it then, But with the tea, it just kind of
(12:56):
tastes a little grassy, a little grassy.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
See. Uh, So you can make violet syrup, create a
violet syrup from drinks, desserts, and ice creams. Would you
you mentioned that a simple syrup. So a simple syrup
is just, uh, what is it, like sugar and water
and then you mix.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Equal parts of sugar and water and you mix it
in a in a saucepan and just heat it until the.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Sugar dissolves, so.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, so if you were doing it with the violet leaves,
you would just like toss the or not leaves, but flowers.
You would just toss them in there when you mix
it up and heat it and just stir it till
it dissolves and then straighten the leaves out.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Uh, what would be the purpose of that? Would we
be using that for medicinal properties or would the heating
of it kill the medicinal properties.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I would think the heating would kill the medicinal properties. Probably.
I think it's just kind of something, just a little
extra fancy, something pretty well.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
We love the aesthetics.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, you can do jellies and honeys says add to
cooked foods just you know, probably also for aesthetic purposes.
But if you use it like any other herb. A
lot of people don't realize that most medicinal herbs aren't
made to be used like in the seasoning of the
(14:29):
food initially, but more is like thrown in afterwards so
that they're not because the more you cook things, the
more broken down the properties are. So you want to
add those kind of as like an afterthought for the
maximum effect of medicinal properties.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, right cool.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And then yeah, it says respiratory health, anti inflammatory, skincare,
and vitamins A, n C, decorative crafts. And I googled
how they reproduce and it says the same way every
other flower reproduces, which again doesn't make sense to us.
(15:14):
Seed dispersal pollination says.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That the the cap the seed.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Capsules ripen and then burst open, scattering the seeds. Okay,
it says ants also play a significant role in seed
dispersal ants find It says that they have a fleshy appendage.
(15:41):
Oh way, uh that ants are attracted to, and the
ants carry the seeds back into their nests and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, effectively planting it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Huh. Yeah, I didn't know that neither, did I?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Right? Yeah, all right cool?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So did I wild violets? Anything else we can add
before we move on to a different one.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Um oh, I also had noted that you could make
an infused vinegar, so you take and pack Did you
see that one? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
It was on here and somehow I just completely like
walked over it.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, so you can like pack the leaves and flowers
into a jar and cover it with vinegar and let
it sit for like four to six weeks and a
cabinet and shake it every once in a while and
then strain it and then you can like either take
a shot or mix it with honey for oxymals that
would have medicinal purpose or uses between the honey and
(16:56):
the vinegar and the violets. So could do that.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So or so we're mixing the vinegar infused violets with
the honey.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The or those are two separate.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Things, you know, it's the same thing, the violet infused vinegar.
You mix it with the honey, So you do like
equal parts of vinegar and honey, and they call that
an oxy mail and the it would essentially have quite
a bit of medicinal purposes, especially for like colds, because
(17:33):
the honey would coach your throat. The vinegar is apple
cider vinegar is beneficial for your health, and then the
wild violets would help, you know, help you cough up
the muck.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, so we want to use apple cider vinegar specifically,
not distilled.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, you could probably use distilled if you wanted to
make it pretty for like just like a salad dressing,
you know, but if you want the health benefits, then
definitely use apple cider, vinegar, cool, all.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right And disclaimer always consult your doctor and do your
own research. Don't take advice from random moms you found
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Rod all right, cool
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And all right
We don't know what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I definitely every time I think I know what I'm doing,
I find out I'm so very wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, so okay, So the overview is that we're trying
to start a series where we spend anywhere from five
minutes to fifteen minutes talking about a certain plant. So
we wanted to start with wild violet since they are.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Invasive as crap.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I just pulled a ton of them out of our
front garden that where we don't want them out and
for years and years and years and years, Blake spend
like this weed is we got to destroy it, and
I'm like, no, They're so pretty and I'm pretty sure
they're edible, and so they are.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So all I did because this is your this is your.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Area department pathway that you know way more about herbs
and plants and stuff that I do, and I'm working
on it. But you've been a wealth of information for me.
So I just wanted to bring you on here and
share you with the world because we all want to
know what to do with wild violets since they are
freaking everywhere in Alabama anyway where we're at.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So yeah, go ahead, what's our zone? Because it changed
right seven.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
We are in seven B right now, right now, but yeah,
it was seven A and then it changed to seven B,
which is slightly more tropical. But I still don't believe
it because we keep having these weird like freak freezes
out of nowhere that well, I say out of nowhere,
but they're like out of character for seven B. So
(01:57):
you know, even if it gets that way for three days,
is it's still enough to kill your plants if you're
planting more tropical type things. So I don't trust.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It, okay, So stick with seven A.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah that's what I do. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So that's where we're located anyway. So tell us what
you know about wild violence. And all I did was
plug in to Gemina, which is AI, you.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Know Google Ai.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I said, tell me everything I can do with wild violets.
So you go and I fill in the blanks with
what gem and I said, okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
First of all, they are very prolific. I was trying
to think the word was escape of me. I was
going out to check my mailbox today and I have
an asphalt driveway and there was like this teeny tiny,
like one inch crack in my driveway and I saw
something purple, and I was like, what is that? Because
(02:55):
you know, I'm always looking at the ground. I'm either
looking for rocks or looking for plants, and I seen
something purple, so I looked at it closer and it
was a little wild violet growing in that teeny dinny
crack and the asphalt.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But yeah, we just redid the front garden, so we
had to get them all out. And I was like, look,
make sure you dig up the roots because that's how
they're going to come right back if you don't, and
they're gonna take over everything. And he was like, where
did they come from in the first place.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I said the air.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He was insistent that I had planted them. He was like, no,
you threw all sorts of wild seeds. I was like, no, no,
these come from the air.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I don't know how they spread so much through those rhizomes,
But I mean, I wonder. It does make you wonder,
like it does the flower produce I don't even know this,
Like does the flower also produce a seed that birds
eat or something that you know they poop it out
in various places. I don't know, So what I know,
(04:02):
I've got to look at my notes. What I know
is that they are edible and medicinal. The flowers are
kind of peppery tasting, but like not nearly as strong
as something like nasturtium, so they're a little peppery. You
can use the flowers to like decorate cakes, or freeze
(04:27):
them in ice cubes and put them in your drinks
to make them look pretty. You can just throw them
in salads to make salads look prettier. Let's see. You
can make like a simple syrup and make like a
purple syrup to make like to mix things with, like
(04:48):
mixed drinks and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Are all parts edible, like the leaves, the flowers, all.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The parts above cre I don't. I've never seen anything
that said, and not just because I've never seen it
doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. But I've never seen
anything that's said that the rhizomes or the root was edible,
So therefore I've never eaten that part.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I just googled it and it said that the roots
are generally not considered editable and are best avoided. Okay, well, great,
don't eat the roots everything above the ground.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yes, so they taste good, they're peppery, you can make
jelly and syrup out of them. It makes like a
really pretty light, pinkish purple jelly or syrup. They have
a lot of vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, and magnesium,
(05:53):
and they are anti inflammatory, so I always use them
mostly for tea. It's supposed to promote sleep, but I
don't know that I've you know, I'm really high strong,
so it kind of takes a lot to knock me
down tonight. So so they may work for other people
(06:17):
for sleep benefits, but I have not experienced that personally myself.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's arguably too that you would. If it's good for sleep,
it's oftentimes good for anxiety as well.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, probably, yeah, yeah, But they are an expectorant. So
if you're having like lung issues like colds, bronchottas, flew
anything where you have a lot of like stuff you
want to cough up and get out of your body,
a good strong tea with though with wild violets, it's good.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Would you say, you'd say, like just a handful of
fresh flowers.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, generally I go by the rule of thumb for
about two to three tablespoons of fresh flowers and leaves
to you know, eight to ten ounces of water. If
it's dried, you'll probably want to knock that down to
like two teaspoons. But this time of the year, there's.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So dried is more potent.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You're saying yes, so because you would think it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I think it's just because the water evaporates out
of it, so it's just kind of more concentrated.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, okay, so we're starting from scratch air.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm going to write that down so that we can
put it in the show notes below. So you said
two tablespoons fresh, Yeah, two to three tablespoons fresh for
eight ounces of water, and then knock that down to
(08:08):
how much.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Dried one to two tea spoon stride cool, all right,
so mm hmm. So they're an immune stimulant and an expectorant,
so if you're not feeling well, they're good for that.
They also contain salicilic acid. So did I pronounce that
(08:34):
You're smiling like I pronounced it different than you do.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No, No, it just reminded me of psychedelic mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Silent Now I can't say it now, I can't. Everyone
everybody is listening to this trying to figure out and
remember how to pronounce it correctly. That's what we've done,
buttered it. Yeah, salacilic acid, which is good for disinfecting
(09:12):
and fungal there. It's anti fungal, so it's good for
like skin irritations and stuff like that. So like a poultice,
if you make a poultice where you just kind of
like chop and mush up the leaves and stems to
mix it with a little bit of water and then
(09:32):
you can like wrap that in galls and put it
on like skin infections or inflamed skin or anything like that,
it will help promote like wound healing and antibacterial infection stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I didn't realize how many notes I was going to
need to take, but I need to get a whole
notebook out for the next step. But you know, the
first one's always the hardest.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So AI says that you can add them to salads
and backs you up on having a sweet.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And peppery flavor. You can do candied.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Violets, apparently, for it doesn't tell me what candied violets
are though, it just says as decorative toppings. Let's see
what are candied violets preserved in sugar, primarily used as
(10:41):
beautiful and elegant decorative garnishes for desserts. Essentially violet flowers
that have been crystallized with sugar. The process preserves the
delicate beauty and adds a sweet floral flavor.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So we're not gonna it's not giving me much information
on how to do that, but we don't really care.
You can google it specifically if you want to. You
can make violet sugar, which is infuse sugar with violet
petals first. That you would just take like a jar
of sugar and mix petals into it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
How aesthetically pleasing. That's so charming. That's yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I loved them, and then they started crowding out all
of my other plants, so I'm starting to hate them,
But then reading up on all the things that they're
good for makes me like them again a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Start doing things with them. Yeah, you can do go ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I would think that probably if you're harvesting a lot
of the leaves and stuff like that for you know,
for us in that it would probably slow down the
growth and how fast they would like take over, because
you know it's got to you know, more energy is
going to regrowing new leaves and stuff versus they're doing
(12:08):
great and have all the leaves to photosynthesize, So we're
gonna spread roots everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Are are we making the tea out of the leaves
and the flowers or just the flowers?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You can use both for the leaves or for the tea.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, okay, so they pretty much have the same properties,
the leaves and the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, the the flowers are just kind of more of
the peppery. But really, when you put it in tea,
you don't taste peppery. It's more the peppery taste to me,
has always been more in like when you're eating just
chewing up a leaf, you know, you kind of taste
it then, But with the tea, it just kind of
(12:56):
tastes a little grassy, a little grassy.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
See. Uh, So you can make violet syrup, create a
violet syrup from drinks, desserts, and ice creams. Would you
you mentioned that a simple syrup. So a simple syrup
is just, uh, what is it, like sugar and water
and then you mix.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Equal parts of sugar and water and you mix it
in a in a saucepan and just heat it until the.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Sugar dissolves, so.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, so if you were doing it with the violet leaves,
you would just like toss the or not leaves, but flowers.
You would just toss them in there when you mix
it up and heat it and just stir it till
it dissolves and then straighten the leaves out.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Uh, what would be the purpose of that? Would we
be using that for medicinal properties or would the heating
of it kill the medicinal properties.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I would think the heating would kill the medicinal properties. Probably.
I think it's just kind of something, just a little
extra fancy, something pretty well.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
We love the aesthetics.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, you can do jellies and honeys says add to
cooked foods just you know, probably also for aesthetic purposes.
But if you use it like any other herb. A
lot of people don't realize that most medicinal herbs aren't
made to be used like in the seasoning of the
(14:29):
food initially, but more is like thrown in afterwards so
that they're not because the more you cook things, the
more broken down the properties are. So you want to
add those kind of as like an afterthought for the
maximum effect of medicinal properties.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, right cool.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And then yeah, it says respiratory health, anti inflammatory, skincare,
and vitamins A, n C, decorative crafts. And I googled
how they reproduce and it says the same way every
other flower reproduces, which again doesn't make sense to us.
(15:14):
Seed dispersal pollination says.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That the the cap the seed.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Capsules ripen and then burst open, scattering the seeds. Okay,
it says ants also play a significant role in seed
dispersal ants find It says that they have a fleshy appendage.
(15:41):
Oh way, uh that ants are attracted to, and the
ants carry the seeds back into their nests and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, effectively planting it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Huh. Yeah, I didn't know that neither, did I?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Right? Yeah, all right cool?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So did I wild violets? Anything else we can add
before we move on to a different one.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Um oh, I also had noted that you could make
an infused vinegar, so you take and pack Did you
see that one? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
It was on here and somehow I just completely like
walked over it.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, so you can like pack the leaves and flowers
into a jar and cover it with vinegar and let
it sit for like four to six weeks and a
cabinet and shake it every once in a while and
then strain it and then you can like either take
a shot or mix it with honey for oxymals that
would have medicinal purpose or uses between the honey and
(16:56):
the vinegar and the violets. So could do that.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So or so we're mixing the vinegar infused violets with
the honey.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The or those are two separate.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Things, you know, it's the same thing, the violet infused vinegar.
You mix it with the honey, So you do like
equal parts of vinegar and honey, and they call that
an oxy mail and the it would essentially have quite
a bit of medicinal purposes, especially for like colds, because
(17:33):
the honey would coach your throat. The vinegar is apple
cider vinegar is beneficial for your health, and then the
wild violets would help, you know, help you cough up
the muck.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, so we want to use apple cider vinegar specifically,
not distilled.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, you could probably use distilled if you wanted to
make it pretty for like just like a salad dressing,
you know, but if you want the health benefits, then
definitely use apple cider, vinegar, cool, all.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right And disclaimer always consult your doctor and do your
own research. Don't take advice from random moms you found
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Rod all right, cool
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And all right
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