May Wine

To make May wine, pick sweet woodruff that does not have open blossoms the day before you want to serve the wine. The herb has more flavor when slightly dry. Tie the stems of a bunch with cotton thread and hang it in a bottle of wine so the leaves are covered. After ten or fifteen minutes, remove the woodruff. You should now add strawberries just before serving the wine,. Woodruff can also be used in the same way to flavor milk or apple juice.

****Note****There are those recipes for May Wine that tell you to leave the woodruff in the wine for days, even weeks. However, woodruff contains coumarin, a substance similar to coumadin which is prescribed to thin blood for people suffering from clots. Too much can also cause a headache, so it is best to use only enough to flavor the wine.