Immune Booster Grapefruit and Lemon Drink

For many years, I have made a Winter Tea mix for my fridge.  It's just honey, lemon slices and ginger slices, all layered in a mason jar, and kept in the fridge.  You add about a tablespoon or two to tea, and it helps a lot with colds and flus.

 

This is another variation, but not to be used in tea, although you probably could put a spoon into yours, but it's meant to be taken as is.  

 

It is another amazing immune boosting drink that will get you through the winter season, and all the sniffles and colds.

 

Super easy to make.  Just dump everything in a slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 4 hours. 

Sliced grapefruit and lemon, as well as cinnamon sticks and ginger, plus the added benefit of tonic water with quinine.

 

What you get is a powerful immune booster that knocks all the crud out super quick.

I keep a big mason jar in the fridge, it lasts about a month, and when one of us has the sniffles or starts feeling like we're getting a cold, we take a tablespoon.  Repeat it a couple times during the day, and within a day or two, the sickies are gone.

 

Now, this makes enough of a batch, that I keep one mason jar in the fridge and another in the freezer for when needed.  

What exactly is needed to make this super immune booster?

3 grapefruits

3 lemons

2 cinnamon sticks

1 ginger root

2 bottles of tonic water, with quinine

Slice the grapefruits and lemons into quarters, remove the inside and keep just the skins.  I usually take the inside of the fruit, chop it and freeze it to use in my water.

Chop all the skins into chunks and place in a slow cooker.

Add in two cinnamon sticks.  Wash and slice the ginger root, and add to the same pot.  Next, pour in two bottles of tonic water.

Place the lid on, and cook on HIGH for 4 hours.  Do NOT remove the lid at any time to prevent the tonic water quinine from escaping through the steam.

 

Once it is done cooking, turn off the slow cooker, and allow to cool completely.  Again, DO NOT OPEN.

 

Once completely cool, discard the skins, cinnamon and ginger, and pour the liquid into a clean mason jar.  I like to add honey and mix it well, before pouring into the jar, just because it is quite bitter and the honey not only helps to sweeten it slightly but is also another great ingredient to fight off colds and flus.