Ivan tea (fermentation of fireweed leaves) - master class

[Tanyashka]

Tanyashka, the correct seagull, do not hesitate! The smell during drying indicates this. Tea won't be sweet, don't worry. But you should not drink it with sugar. Then it will definitely seem cloying. The main thing is to dry it thoroughly in a pillowcase and put it tightly closed for a couple of months in the dark. It will still be infused and will be very tasty.

I made more leaf tea, fermented for 8 hours, until I put it in the refrigerator, did not dry it. I think to ferment more or that's enough.

Yesterday I got some fireweed. Indeed, the season is probably coming to an end. The leaves are rough, tough, have been drying for 14 hours, almost the same as they were laid. I mix all the time, but they are all tough. I barely collected the flowers (I wanted to cook another batch of honey). They are almost absent, only small at the top. Began to push. It's a shame!

I'm also in thought, I picked up some fireweed yesterday, the young leaves have already wilted, and the rough ones are still crunching. And I don’t want to overwhelm, the last time I did a wedge, half of the granules crumbled, maybe it was necessary to sprinkle it slightly before the meat grinder.

Chaedely, I have a question about the weather. What is your weather, approximately, in fireweed time? Well, May-June-July ...
There is a suspicion that the dubar with the rain that we have now, Ivanushka is the very thing)

[Guzel62]

The leaves are rough, tough, have been drying for 14 hours, almost the same as they were laid. I stir all the time, and they are all tough

Guzel62, it’s just damp and cold now, so they are drying longer. My leaves have been drying on the veranda for the third day. I'm not in a hurry, let them dry.

And I don’t want to overwhelm, the last time I did a wedge, half of the granules crumbled, maybe it was necessary to sprinkle it slightly before the meat grinder.

Nadyushich, overwhelmed leaves cannot crumble. Only dry or dry. Simply over-dried leaves give great granules. and no need to splash water. There are no enzymes in the water, only porridge will be made instead of mass.

fermented for 8 hours, while refrigerated, not dried. I think to ferment more or that's enough.

Wozik, now only dry. otherwise it is unclear how they will behave after the refrigerator. while they keep warm ...

There is a suspicion that the dubar with the rain that we have now, Ivanushka is the very thing)

Radushka, it's cold and damp here. And Vanya, like other scent, needs moisture, especially in the legs. Then it is juicy and easier to process.

Vanya, like other scent, needs moisture

That's what it is ... And where is the summer?
But I already have 6 sprouts hatched!

[Radushka]

That's what it is ... And where is the summer?

Radushka, the summer is gone ... And, apparently, forever, that is, until next year. We fire the stove for the third day in a row.

But I already have 6 sprouts hatched!

ABOUT! Congratulations! let Vanechka grow big and lush! And a lotAAA !!!!!

For the third summer in a row my husband and I have been collecting Ivan-tea! The result is a truly gorgeous drink with an incredibly pleasant aroma! We drink it ourselves and distribute it to family and friends, this drink did not leave anyone indifferent! And the history of Russian tea? Oh, how I would like more people to know about this! Thanks for the most interesting article and recipe!

[Altyn]

Altyn, Hope, it is very pleasant to meet you on the pages of the tea theme. How well you wrote about Ivan tea. I would like to know how you do it. Please share.

[Ludmila]

Good day to all Chaedels!
Ludmila, hi! Today, after a long break, I followed Vanechka ... I came upset - I don’t understand what happened to him in "my" fields ... he was all yellowed ...already the fluff flew! And some islets are generally "sick" - the leaves are all stained, and the flowers are still blooming, already dried !!! I barely put on a couple of kilograms. There is only one hope for a trip to the dacha in the Vladimir region - maybe he is still there! Last year, he was like this only at the end of August, we had here, but this one is just a DISASTER!

Quote: Wozik from Today at 11:22 am
fermented for 8 hours, while refrigerated, not dried. I think to ferment more or that's enough.
Wozik, now only dry. otherwise it is unclear how they will behave after the refrigerator. while they keep warm ...

should be ok

[Borisyonok]

Borisyonok, Helen the cat, of course, go to the region, especially to the rainy region !!!! HELLO!

I am posting a photo of my two-deck dryer. Used for drying Ivan-tea. And so I have been using this dryer for a long time for drying, most often I dry homemade noodles, homemade bread crumbs for breading, the noodles dries completely overnight. I hang it on a carabiner to the hood. Maybe someone can help to dry or dry or dry faster. Chinese folding dryer, I live in the kitchen in the wall between the refrigerator and the wall.

How pleasant it is to read! How many new and lively tea-lovers have appeared in our country!

[Alevtina]

Alevtinawhat size is the dryer?

[Loksa]

Loksa, Oksanochka! Hi there!
So I am now in the region, though in Moscow ... but still 70 km. from Moscow. Last year, I just started making tea at this time and made it until autumn from Vanechka, and this year I went and collected a leaf. I'm just upset today because of him!

I have no luck with meat grinders. I have moulinex 600 W, chops meat, no fireweed. And that's all. A friend has a different model Moulinex, she cuts everything. Today I bought a cast-iron (!) Altai manual meat grinder .. The knives are sharp there, everything was spinning, but ... the place where the handle is worn out !! The handle now turns freely on the auger and turns nothing. I haven’t twisted the fireweed, I’ll have to do everything with my hands .. I already did everything with my hands, I have already dried 5kg 300g .. My hands already hurt.

[francevna]

francevna, Alla, the diameter of the dryer is 60 cm, it is convenient to hang just above the stove at night so that you do not need to look for a place. Positioned as for drying delicate knitwear that should not be hung on a hanger. I have two dryers, on one I dry knitwear, but I use the other in the kitchen to dry all kinds of edible raw materials.

[Creamy]

Positioned as for drying delicate knitwear that should not be hung on a hanger.

So I look, she is not her. )) I saw such in Auchan, only in one tier, for drying knitwear, all kinds of sweaters.

Creamy, and you turn on the gas under it and nothing is done to it? Or just dry it in it, "without a spark"?)) It's just that it's made of some kind of synthetics. I was interested not so much for drying herbs as for drying noodles. And then after buying the noodles I am tormented where to dry these noodles ...

[Borisyonok]

Lyudmila, hello! Today, after a long break, I went after Vanechka ... I came upset - I don’t understand what is with him in "my" fields ... all the yellowed ones are standing ... the fluff has already flown!

Borisyonok, Lena, hello! Yes, it's strange .. But in general, June was dry, that's all dried up. I have some kind of dry and hard leaf (not dried out) in the meadow, but along the edge of the forest - fat and fleshy. Even though I’m going to fetch him further, I’m going because tea from the forest is better.
Creamy, Alevtina, an Internet device. Only I advise you not to turn on the gas when the leaves are withering, otherwise it will not be good for the tea to wither too quickly.
For my volumes of leaves, this is, unfortunately, a small area. You can make these racks specifically for the leaves. Once in the internet I saw such a device for drying - tiers for 10 shelves, and the area of ​​each is a couple of square meters. ...

should be ok

Wozik, but what did you ask then if you are sure of this method? Then do as you think up, and then tell us.

[mumra]

mumra, God forbid, turn on the gas under it! For natural drying only. I think that any acceleration spoils the original taste. And I dry noodles and crackers only on this dryer! And above the stove it is convenient to hang it by a separate hook to the hood and there is no need to look for additional places.

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, Thank you . Not enough for tea, now I twisted 2 kg of leaves into the fabric for drying.

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, did you change the hook at the top of the dryer? And then I found one on Ali ..., but there is a plastic hook.

God forbid to turn on the gas under it!

I guessed that without gas, but I was embarrassed by what was hanging over the stove. )))

[Natalishka]

Natalishka, yes, of course, I took off the factory one, inserted a metal key ring. and then, to this ring, she fixed a small carabiner rotating at 360 degrees. A rotating carabiner is necessary to turn the dryer towards you when. for example, you need to evenly spread out to dry noodles or something else.

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, thanks, I'll do it too

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudochka! Now I'm going to go through the forests to look for Vanechka ... before it was just - you walk 100 meters and collect it for your pleasure. Last year I have been collecting the forest tree since the end of August, and this will probably have to start earlier.

Interestingly, in the tea made a week ago, there is some kind of creamy aroma, not very pleasant. What is it?)

family members say that something fruity is beginning to show through, there is nothing creamy here.
They won't be able to drink every morning. Or will it change completely in aroma and bouquet in a month?
What will become?

[Wozik]

Interestingly, in the tea made a week ago, there is some kind of creamy aroma, not very pleasant. What is it?)

They won't be able to drink every morning. Or will it change completely in aroma and bouquet in a month? What will become?

Wozik, it is difficult to describe aroma and taste. The smell will change, but how - it happens in different ways. Wait ...

[Borisyonok]

Lyudochka! Now I'm going to go through the forests to look for Vanechka ... before it was just - you walk 100 meters and collect it for your pleasure. Last year I collected the forest tree already from the end of August, and this will probably have to start earlier

Borisyonok, just twisted Ivanushka. Collected next to the house in the meadow. Leaves are coarse, small, dry initially. It was too late to go to the forest (half past eight in the evening), so I gathered it in the meadow. Twisted and regretted having collected such leaves. The meat grinder was indignant, but steadfastly endured this dryness and rigidity. I put it to dry until morning. I think that the tea will not be the best. Tomorrow I'll go to collect for the highway under the oaks. There were juicy leaves there last year and in September. Yes, this year there were light leaves only in May and June 2/3 ...

What are your tastes? describe the taste, bitter? or what, I wonder what others have
I'm talking about pure fireweed

[Wozik]

They won't be able to drink every morning.

Wozik, many said so ... And then only this tea and began to drink ...

Leaves are coarse, small, dry initially.

Yes, I also noticed that on the river in an open space, the leaves are completely non-condensed already ... but only the middle of July. ((We need to start gardening, apparently.)

[Wozik]

What are your tastes? describe the taste, bitter? or what, I wonder what others have about pure fireweed

Wozik, I also mean pure fireweed ... What - I described in the recipe - floral-fruity-honey - a mixture of tastes and aromas ... Slightly tart. But not bitter. Bitterness and ivan tea are incompatible concepts.

We must proceed to garden scent. apparently.)

Ksyusha, I've also thought about it ... But I will collect Ivanushka in the woods. Last year I collected it for a long time, but I did not do mono, but as a basis in Derevensky. The tea turned out to be great, especially with cherries and blackberries. Well, you yourself know about cherries ...

Well, you yourself know about cherries ...

Oh, yeah ... I got to the cherry .. plus cut off the tops of fireweed .. delight !!!

FSE ...I persuaded, tomorrow I will start fireweed with cherries ... I also want to experience delight ...

Yeah ... now have to be content with little (I'm talking about pure Vanechka). Indeed, now you have to start doing Rustic. Fortunately, "my" fields are full of wild-apple trees, irgi, and it’s time to start growing forest flowers. abrade collect.

[Borisyonok]

Borisyonok, oh, I'll come to you from Noginsk, then I'll help you rip off))

[Wozik]

Wozik, No problem! I'm the only one here in our village who is "preoccupied with tea"! A couple of neighbors were asked to tell and explain how and what, and after listening, they decided that all this was "not worth it" for them. Now just come to drink delicious tea!

A couple of neighbors were asked to tell and explain how and what, and after listening, they decided that all this was "not worth it"

I clean up the strawberry beds. Nearby I carry a bucket, into which I immediately cut off clean, selected leaves for tea.
A neighbor across the border asks - What are you doing? I say that I cut off strawberries. _ What for? I explain. And what are you cutting into a bucket? She said that for tea. - Are you drying? I explain what I am doing and how.
Reaction ... - Oh, and you want to mess around like that?
I say - I'll give you some tea. You will understand that HUNTING!

[Radushka]

Radushka, here is one consolation from them - all the "scraps" give me a tip ...

[francevna]

francevna, Alla, in your Rostov region. Ivan tea grows? In what places?

[Vasyutka]

Vasyutka, Natalia, Ivan-tea is listed in the Red Book. Once in the news they showed about the north of the region, there I saw a blooming Ivanushka.

[francevna]

francevna, Alla, north of Rostov south of Volgograd on the idea. I haven’t seen it in person yet, although earlier, as I recall, I saw it on the banks of the Don or Khopra. Muscovites claim that they saw how it grows, promised to show where. I planted it at home with seeds, something similar has sprung up, there will be flowers only in the second year, then we'll see. They promised to send the rhizome, it would be more accurate. I confused Ivan tea with a derbeinik, there is a lot of it along the rivers.

[Vasyutka]

Vasyutka, Nataliya, and from the derbeinik, too, cool tea! It's edible.

[lappl1]

lappl1Lyudochka, a question for you: did I correctly identify the fireweed?

"Macho Hair". Thanks to the author for such an original title!