Date Tea, a new tradition.

Dates :-)

According to a study by Al-Shahib and Marshall, in many ways, "dates may be considered as an almost ideal food, providing a wide range of essential nutrients and potential health benefits." Dates are a very good source of dietary potassium. The sugar content of ripe dates is about 80%; the remainder consists of protein, fiber, and trace elements including boron, cobalt, copper, fluorine, magnesium, manganese, selenium, and zinc.

We all know about 'Dates', its good. Just want to share this with all my known people.

Take a sip of "Date Tea"

Red Date Soup, with dried Longan

Before leaving for work, add the 2 ingredients: red dates and dried longan and very hot water into a vacuum flask. Secure the top. Bring the vacuum flask to work. By mid morning, you will have a nice hot flask of sweet soup.Dried longan helps blood circulation. Red dates is good for an easily irritable stomach.

Both dried longan and red dates are very sweet. It is therefore not necessary to add any sugar.What is Longan? see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longan, it is similar to lychees.

Ingredients
1/2 tablespoon dried longan
7 red dates

Directions
[1] Wash and core the red dates
[2] Separate and flatten the dried longans
[3] Wash and soak briefly in warm water
[4] Place the longans and red dates in vacuum flask
[5] Add 500ml boiling water
[6] Close the lid tight and let everything steep for about 2-3 hours
[7] Pour into a small cup to serve
[8] Remember to bring a spoon so that you can eat the longan flesh and red dates