Moon Milk: Easy Recipes for Peaceful Sleep

By Anni Daulter

Get ready for sleep with over fifty recipes for calming, stress-relieving bedtime drinks.
 
Moon Milk is a cookbook of fifty-five recipes for calming beverages to drink before bedtime. Relaxing nighttime drinks have often been thought of as a miracle worker for helping you to snooze soundly and deeply. Many of the recipes in this book have adaptogens in the ingredients, such as ginseng, turmeric, or cardamom, to help reduce stress, relieve fatigue, and bring a sense of peace.
 
While most of these tasty beverages are warm drinks made with nondairy or dairy milks, there are also recipes for cool elixirs, and options to be made using teas and flavored waters. There is a chapter dedicated to drinks using alcohol, but you can add spirits to any of the drinks if you so choose.
 
The book is divided into five chapters, with the first, Milky Way, focusing on the concept of moon milks, creating nut milks from scratch, adaptogens, garnishes, and infusions. The other four chapters are Starlit Soothers (milks to invite peace and tranquility), Night Owls (milks for late nights), Calming Classics (milks for coziness), and Noddy Toddies (milks with extra spirits).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781423654490

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Moon Milk

Easy Recipes for peaceful sleep

Anni Daulter

with Jessica Booth and Alexis Donahue

Photographs by Megan Elizondo

Slumber shots in stemmed glasses with a rose.

Digital Edition 1.0

Text © 2020 Anni Daulter

Photographs © 2020 Megan Elizondo

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.

Published by

Gibbs Smith

P.O. Box 667

Layton, Utah 84041

1.800.835.4993 orders

www.gibbs-smith.com

Contributing writers Jessica Booth and Alexis Donahue

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Daulter, Anni, author. | Elizondo, Megan, photographer.

Title: Moon milk : easy recipes for peaceful sleep / Anni Daulter ; photographs by Megan Elizondo.

Description: First edition. | Layton : Gibbs Smith, [2020] |

Identifiers: LCCN 2019036072 | ISBN 9781423654483 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781423654490 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Beverages. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX815 .D24 2020 | DDC 641.2—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019036072

To our families and friends who supported and loved our moonalicious vision!

Photo of Sleeping Beauty in various shades of blue and purple.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Why Moon Milks?

The Milky Way

Milky Basics & How To’s

Choosing Add-Ins

Garnishes

Floral Water Moonfusions

Dropping into the Moment

Bedtime Snack Tips

Starlit Soothers

All The Thyme In The World Moon Milk

Mindful Milk

Balance Brew

Calming Cardamom Moon Milk

Magic Hour

Sleepytime Chai

Blushing Moon Milk

Matcha Brownie

Sleeping Beauty

Musing Mango

Hunger Moon Milk

Rose–Earl Grey Latte

Blue Moonfusion

Kiwi Dreamin’

Night Owls

Matcha Moon Latte

Green Goddess

Golden Moon Milk

Slumber Shots

Strawberry Elderflower Dream

Fairy Nectar

Love Brew

Lavender Hot Chocolate

Enter the Night Latte

Midnight Reverie

Maple Dreamin’

Dandy Shandy

Into the Blue

Crushed Velvet

Unicorn Sunset

Calming Classics

Cinnamon & Sugar Moon Milk

Verdant Luna

Let’s Get Figgy with It

Cozy Cacao

Pretty in Purple Milk

Nuts for Moon Milk

PB & Jelly Time

Peaches & Cream

Mama’s Malty Moon

Apple Pie in the Sky

Rosie Chai

Twilight Delight

Banana Brûlée

Italian Sugar Clouds

Noddy Toddies

Lavender Honey Nightcap

Moonlight Mulled Cherry Toddy

Tipsy Black Forest Milk

Nod Off Nog

Cereal Milk & Cookies Cocktail

Horchata Latte

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all those who appreciate the magic of the moon and all her wondrous gifts—and the following folks for their moon milk inspiration:

Lesley Gilbert for her moon-inspired water color art, and for sharing herbs from her apothecary, Sacred Spaces Co.; Megan Elizondo of Nutmeg Photography for her constant positive vibes and beautiful images; and Leigh Lamitola for supporting our vision and helping it come to life.

Photo of dried flowers and other dried ingredients with a candle, and a spoon with the words Don't let the Muggles get you down.

The

Milky Way

Why Moon Milks?

Moon Milks are a soft sip of nurturing for your body, mind, and