To heal cough and cold with poppy jam

Let 50 g (1.76 oz) of fresh poppy petals soak in the juice of 8 lemons for 24 hours. Then melt and boil 3 kg of sugar in 3 glasses of water, letting it skim until the compound looks clear and gets to syrup stiffness.
Add poppies soaked in lemon juice to the syrup: it must boil for few minutes.
The jam is ready: it’s aromatic, good and healing. Actually it fights the cold, alleviates cough and bronchial inflammations.

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