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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Natural Medicine.

For this BB, you will create an infusion of red clover blossom. Infusion is a method of extracting desired compounds from plant material by steeping the material in hot or cold water, depending on the plant and its attributes.

clover tea
picture from Food.com


Here are some links to guide you in researching and creating your red clover infusion:
Red Clover Infusion for Psoriasis and Skin Conditions -- ascensionkitchen.com
Red Clover Tea- How To Make & Benefits -- Organicfacts.com
Red Clover Tea - Food.com
Red Clover - Trifolium pratense -- Nourishing Herbal Infusions the Wise Woman Way
Red Clover For Health -- Solidago School of Herbalism

To show you’ve completed this Badge Bit, you must post a picture or video of:
- your plants being harvested
- you making the infusion
- the finished  infusion
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I was given a plant and told it was shamrocks but it's definitely not clover. It has a bell-shaped flower, comes in red or green leaves, and grows out of a rhizome. Is it not really shamrocks? Anyone know what it is?
 
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Carmen Rose wrote:I was given a plant and told it was shamrocks but it's definitely not clover. It has a bell-shaped flower, comes in red or green leaves, and grows out of a rhizome. Is it not really shamrocks? Anyone know what it is?


What comes to mind is a houseplant  (it's actually blooming right now in my house ). The leaves are green, purple or bronze like shade.
The leaves are edible raw or cooked (I never tried it) and flowers can be used in decorating cakes or other sweet like wild violets. I did both flowers with egg white and superfine sugar but not the leaves.
 
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Edge case submission
I infused red clover blossom both cold and hot. Neither turned that beautiful pink color of the flower. The cold infusion was.left in the fridge for 2 days and tasted like the sweet bits of the end of the clover, I preferred that to the hot version.
To show you’ve completed this Badge Bit, you must post a picture or video of:
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Harvest
Harvest
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Pre hot infusion
Pre hot infusion
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Post hot infusion
Post hot infusion
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Cold infusion
Cold infusion
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Note: Could we get a photo of the finished/strained tea?

 
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I let it sit and it got a lot darker!
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Red clover
Red clover
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Opalyn Rose approved this submission.
Note: I hereby certify this badge bit complete.  (See the previous post for the other required photos.)

 
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