Herbal Syrup: Rosemary

If you like rosemary as I do, you'll like this; you may even LOVE this. It is great in certain cocktails and added to green tea (I add a little lemon juice too). Remember, this is not a drink in itself, but rather a concentrate used to flavor other beverages; thus, it is meant to be very sweet and heavily flavored with rosemary, as it will be diluted in the drinks you make. I consulted the article at this link to do this article:
https://www.foodandwine.com/cocktails-spirits/rosemary-syrup-cocktails

Of course, you can make a smaller amount by reducing the amounts of the ingredients.

Ingredients (for 1 cup +):

6 to 8 stems (each about 5 to 6 inches long) of fresh rosemary
1 1/3 cup fresh water
1 cup sugar

Put the rosemary into a pan with the water, bring to a light boil, then reduce to a simmer for 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and add the sugar, stirring as best you can to make sure the sugar dissolves. Let the rosemary steep for about 20 to 30 minutes, then remove the rosemary stems and strain the liquid through a sieve into a pitcher or a jar, cover it and store it in the refrigerator. 


Picture is of green tea with rosemary and lemon ...

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Theme-This word is related to a number of words including "do" and "deed," both from the Germanic roots of English, and "thesis," a word borrowed by English from Latin, which had borrowed it from Greek. It goes back to Indo European "dhe," which had the notion, "to make, to bring about (later in English, as in, "to do harm"), "to be engaged in an activity (later in English, as in, "they got ready to do battle"), to put." This gave transliterated Ancient Greek "théma," meaning, "that which is set down;" thus, "a statement or assertion that brings further discussion about a matter;" thus, "a subject, a proposal, a topic." Latin borrowed this as "thema," with the same meanings, which passed to Latin-based Old French as "tesme" (seemingly the 's' was silent) also with the same meanings. English borrowed the word as "teme" (seemingly in some cases) and "theme," in the first half of the 1300s, from French, and with reinforcement by Latin. German, a close cousin of English, borrowed the word directly from Latin as "Thema" (pronounced "tay-mah"), and it is the standard word in German for "subject."