Wild, this county
Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
The creek-woods cold tea. Pleasant enough that people will actually drink it.
- Part used
- Twigs year-round; leaves in season; dried berries
- Gather
- Moist woods with pawpaw. Scratch a twig — lemon-allspice.
- Tea
- A handful of twigs snapped into a pot, simmer 15 minutes. Leaf tea is quicker and lighter.
- Other
- Dried berries ground as allspice on meat.
Recipes
Peppermint or spicebush tea
Queasy, gassy, or a tension head. Mint from the bucket, or spicebush twigs from the hollow.