3 Babushka's Remedy Recipes to Boost Immune System

Hi guys, so I'm going to show you today three recipes of babushka's remedies, things that you should do at home if you know you're not feeling so well. I'm not claiming these will heal you but this is what we used to do when we're little kids and our grandma babushka always made this for us and also our mom when we were little. So I just want to pass on the Latvian tradition and show you some of the natural home remedies that you can do at home especially now to boost your immune system and just to kind of feel a little bit better we're going to start uh first with my favorite recipe which is tea and this is a tea made with ginger lemon and a natural honey so honey that's actually um is very very natural and bought from like organic shops in Latvia we actually um have a whole stall of honey of different flavors and and things and i'll show you different types of honey that i have yeah just gonna show you what we used to have and i actually still have it because I take it from Latvia all the way here. My granddad always gives me a lot of honey. Bless him. So I'm going to show you now this first recipe. And lemon ginger honey tea is so good for you, for your immune system, for everything, strengthening, getting that boost. And I actually drink this a lot during the winter time and it's amazing. So it's super easy to make. Let's get started. Okay, so this is the, I don't remember the names of these, but I just want to this show you i just want to show you how this looks it's very thick and the smell is very strong like it smells amazing because i love honey but if you don't like honey obviously that would be a struggle and then we have this type of honey which is light in color so different types of honey depends on different i guess flowers that the bees you know collect and then this is dark type of honey you've seen a smaller jar i haven't opened this one yet but i'm gonna open this one oh they're really strong oh and this one smells a little a bit lighter and more flowery they're just amazing i'm just going to show you the consistency as well so when i kind of go inside we have this one open for a couple of months maybe and you can see the longer you have the real honey actually starts to sugar crystallize so the real honey will crystallize the fake honey which is sold actually in a lot of supermarkets now is not going to crystallize because it's made with corn syrup or other type of sugar and just with like flavoring of honey or like a tiny tiny bit of honey so always check your jar try and get like organic honey honey if you can look at that i can just eat this i'm just gonna try it out it's like really chewy and heavy and soft and very sweet and just like melt in your mouth in fact my granddad eats this as a as a dessert after a meal so you know back in the day when we didn't have any candy or anything like that honey used to be your sweet tea so we're gonna start making this tea i'm gonna eat the spoon um so for the tea we're gonna need lemon and ginger you're only gonna need half a lemon and a tiny knob of ginger just like that okay i'm gonna wash my ginger uh and i'm gonna slice it up into small pieces okay so i'm gonna slice my ginger i'm gonna take off the skin peel it off so you can use a peeler or you can use just use a knife and take the skin off like this okay once you've chopped all your bits off just gonna get rid of that and what i'm gonna do i'm gonna thinly slice my ginger it's nice slices like that so you can see it's like nice small pieces here and then i've got my little teapot over here so i'm gonna put all my ginger in there so you can use a teapot you can use a larger pot anything will do um and ginger takes some time just to like stew and brew then we're gonna add the lemon so you can slice your lemon half a lemon into little slices just like that you can also squeeze the lemon juice if you wanted to but i don't usually squeeze it it's too like sour for me so add all your lemon all right just like that look at this so it's stuffed with lemon and ginger and so now lastly we're going to add the honey a big kind of spoon go around edges so like this much and we're just going to put the honey in there you can obviously adjust how sweet you like it so the honey's in there and now we're just going to add hot water adding hot water slowly the honey will melt and you can see even the color already is changing that's the lemon juice and the ginger already so you want to fill it up all the way to the top and we're gonna leave it to brew for about 15 minutes it's best even to leave it for half an hour because that's when the mixture will be the best that's how easy it is to make lemon honey ginger tea which is full of antioxidants full of amazing vitamins and benefits to you and you can drink this all day literally uh once the mixture is super strong you can keep re-adding water maybe twice and yeah it's really good for you so drink like warm mixture so i'm gonna leave it for you know a little bit to like stew and I'm gonna show you my second recipe now which is really really funny um I remember like you know this was like a trick to make kids eat garlic so we're gonna be making small sandwiches with sausage, garlic and cucumber that sounded very long if you don't speak Russian uh this is basically gonna be rye bread with butter with um bologna or sausage or whatever you can also use chicken turkey or any type of meat that you have at home uh we're gonna place garlic under each uh sausage and then you top it up with cucumber and you eat it like a mini sandwich which is like an open sandwich and we used to have it a lot especially you basically needed to eat a lot of garlic uh raw garlic so we're not cooking this and raw garlic is really good for you um it's really good for your immune system uh it's got lots of other benefits and uh going to show you how to make this famous babushka sandwich so over here i've got some natural rye bread this is black bread if you've never tried black bread look in organic stores or if you live in any of the baltic countries or russia you'll be able to find this just smelling it it smells so good oh my god guys just look at that i actually also have a rye bread recipe on my channel but it's not this dark so this one is latvian so it's got 100% of dark rye um flour and it's it's even saying here it's got a lot of vitamin B vitamin K calcium magnesium and iron actually inside and it's really really healthy really good for you so we eat dark bread a lot so you can toast this i'm not going to toast this one um you then need to take some butter okay so you can use salted butter or unsalted butter it's completely up to you and you want to have you want to put like quite a generous amount of butter there you know quite good amount so what we're going to do we're just going to add the butter and then what you want to do you just want to spread the butter around the bread if you like a lot of butter you can actually add more butter i like a lot of butter on my bread you don't have to add butter but i think it just adds that extra flavor and you know really like how my granny used to make it for me and of course like i said you can toast this i don't have a toaster but then if you don't have a toaster you can fry this so so far we've got bread and butter over here and this is what i'll be using uh doctorskaya kolbasa this is my childhood treat so we used to have this a lot as a kid it's basically like a milk sausage um like it's very very milky you know what i mean it's like just very soft and it doesn't have any milk in there it's just what's called like malochnaya kolbasa or doctorskaya kolbasa i managed to get this in a russian store actually so but you can replace this with any type of meat um or if you don't eat meat you can actually use vegetarian meat whatever whatever you you have but you need to replace it with some sort of you know protein meat i guess i'm just gonna take off the seal around the sausage just like that and you want to cut quite nice you know big pieces over here look at that this should be enough and this is how it looks. Now the main ingredient in this recipe is actually garlic. So I've got two cloves of garlic here. Yes, whole two cloves. I'm just gonna get rid of the skin on top. So that's the way I do it. I actually just, you know, you can crush the garlic a little bit and then chop off the end and it just kind of peels off and falls away and that way you don't get your hands too dirty and smelly anyway okay there it is so you've got your garlic it's already smells really garlicky and what you want to do you want to chop the garlic really nice and thin into really thin slices because we're going to be hiding the garlic under the sausage we were sort of forced to eat garlic when we were little and it was almost like a fun treat to be honest um it was it was like a game for us when we were kids basically um every time you had a bite you were like oh did i get the garlic or did i not get the garlic so i don't know why but just it makes me happy it makes me happy these memories with my granny and my mom which are both obviously gone now but you know these kind of memories like warm up my heart because you know we used to do this when we're little so i i hope i'll be able to pass this to you guys and to my own children one day uh so this is how thin the garlic should be okay i mean probably looks a bit thick here what we're gonna do over here we're gonna add the garlic basically all over your bread you can actually have more garlic because this is quite a big piece of bread um it's a giant sandwich i'm probably gonna have this for lunch now it's good to have one clove of garlic per person so you you would be splitting this between your like you know yourself and maybe a couple of kids um and what my mom used to do so i'm just gonna cut off the edges so just the dark edges and we used to make these like small butchers like mini sandwiches so then you're gonna add the sausage and you want to add a lot of sausage because that's kind of like the best bit here you hide the um the garlic and last ingredient over here is a cucumber so i'm just gonna cut this one off, so you want to cut nice chunks of cucumber, okay and you want to put that all over the sandwich and there you go guys, look at that there it is, there it is, beauty, just look at this beautiful giant sandwich and you can cut this into smaller pieces as well, but that's how it looks yummy, nice and yummy, and look at our ginger tea is brewing already, so i'm gonna chop this up so you want to cut this in in four basically or even more, it's up to you, there you go so this is how you would put it on a little plate and you would share it with your family, in fact i'm gonna try one now but just gonna show you and your ratio of sausage should be bigger ratio than your bread and then you can see the garlic is like hidden inside there like that, there you go, cheers i didn't get any garlic in this one so this is what i mean, it's like a game but the flavors are absolutely amazing, you've got nice nice rye bread you've got buttery sort of bread and you've got that creamy sausage, you've got the crunch from the cucumber, let's give it another go, there's definitely gonna be garlic in this one, it tastes so good, you can't actually even taste the garlic that much because you've got so much other things going on and it's so crunchy and then there's a hint like a small hint of garlic at the end which adds a lot of flavor, i'm sorry i'm talking with my mouth full but i'm just very excited this is so good, it literally takes me back to my childhood it's unbelievable how food can make you travel back in time and remind you of that moment when you were sitting around the kitchen I remember I was sitting me my sister my mom and she would be making these and she would be asking like do you want more and we're like yeah we want more she just kept making them and we would eat this at night right and the reason we ate them at night is so you don't stink like garlic during the day so I do recommend having them at night but since we're in isolation right now and i'm not meeting anyone or seeing anyone nobody cares that i smell like garlic clove right now so yeah these are amazing okay that was absolutely delicious now i'm going to show you the last third recipe um babushka's remedies and it is uh raspberry hot tea it's so good every time i had a temperature or i was not feeling well or i was coming down with cold granny would make and my mom as well because you know these are passed through generations the reason why I say both granny and my mom is because obviously I was raised by my mom and you know when my mom was killed my granny kind of took over and looked after us so I kind of just say mom and granny all the time because you know granny kind of raised us when she was gone so anyway this raspberry tea is amazing it's usually so how we used to have homemade raspberry jam at home if you don't have a homemade version you can just use a store-bought jam which is basically the same but a natural homemade jam is better in a way because it's just raw raspberry so you can buy frozen raspberries or fresh raspberries and you cook them with a little bit of sugar on the stove and then you add that into the tea but if you don't have it we're just going to make it with normal raspberry jam one second so we're going to add about one or two tablespoons of raspberry jam into a cup of uh basically like into a normal cup like this okay so you're just going to add that i'm going to add probably one and a half i used to love this tea so the tales you know the the old day tales say that you know it reduces your temperature which it actually does so if you've got high temperature and you have a hot raspberry tea just before you go to bed you're gonna be sweating like crazy so uh they used to do is put us in bed with like these really strong big wool like wool socks like and um cover us in pajamas and then the duvet and then you drank this tea and oh my god you were sweating like crazy all night it's actually pretty disgusting uh and then in the morning like you felt so much better almost like the fever was gone but not every time but it did help for sure like definitely it's like an old tale if you have any like these kind of remedies in your countries let me know so i'm just gonna add hot water stuff just boil the kettle and i'm gonna show you how it looks inside it's really easy recipe you just mix everything together and you mix it until it melts and i remember like the the russian jam the latvian jam that we used to have it had like whole raspberries inside so you would drink the tea and then you would enjoy the sweet raspberries at the end tea is now mixed in i'm gonna show you a close-up and you're supposed to consume it while it's warm and hot while you're in bed and then cover yourself and sleep and you know sweat a lot but oh and it tastes so good it literally reminds me of my childhood again you can also add like a little slice of lemon there if you wanted to this is how the tea looks so you just mix this through and then you get like these little raspberry bits in there so yummy so delicious and now i'm gonna show you our lemon ginger tea the first recipe let's just see that and i'm gonna pour that in the water is always quite clear so you can always add half of this mixture and then you add more hot water in here you get the kettle get the kettle so i would recommend drinking this instead of your tea uh every day right now how funny is this mug oh god i'm so bloody blonde sometimes this was when i used to be blonde so you have the lemon ginger honey tea or remedy one you've got the raspberry tea lemon remedy two and then remedy three which is these garlic rye bread sausage mini sandwiches this is so good so guys i really hope you enjoyed this video with babushka's remedies um if you're gonna try any of them let me know uh they are not to cure any sort of viruses or anything like that these are just um you know i'm just sharing my heritage i'm sharing with you my memories and if you've ever you know experienced something similar then let me know in comments below or maybe in your country you have something different which is even cooler and so I'm really excited to see your homemade remedies let me know and stay safe everyone be careful and do take care of your immune system don't stress and enjoy food and drinks don't forget to subscribe and share this video if you thought it was helpful and funny and i'll see you in my next video