Do you ever think about how much beverage we buy and lug home to drink? Water, juices, sodas, etc. Heavy to lug home, liquid in bottles is heavy, amiright? We buy beverages too, but it's been humming in the back of my mind for a while that there must be a better option.
What, for example, did people used do for everyday for cool and refreshing drinks in the days before the invention of modern packaging? They made their own drinks, of course!
So recently when my little girl's eczema flared up again due to the already humid weather descending over Hong Kong, I decided to cook up a big ol' pot of Green Bean Licorice Prickly Heat Herbal Tea, or 生地綠豆甘草茶. A cool, inexpensive, refreshing sweet Chinese beverage that makes a great everyday drink and soothes itchy skin and prickly heat.
