What is this stuff? Very healthy!
Our field guide states:
"This leafy plant with its pleasant anise-like fragrance, has often been used for food and medicine. Young plants provide cooked greens and flavoring for soups and stews. The fresh flowers add splashes of purple to salads and cooked dishes. Fresh or dried leaves, covered with boiling water and steeped or simmered, produce a delicately licorice-flavored tea. The leaves also add flavor to commercial teas. Cooled giant-hyssop leaf tea is still drunk occasionally to relieve coughs and chest pains. The flower clusters also dry well and look beautiful in dried floral arrangements."
There you have it. You may just choose not to use the hyssop and that's fine too. We thought it added a bit of interest to the garden pak this week.
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