Ivan tea (fermentation of fireweed leaves) - master class

24 liters of ready-made granulated willow tea

nothing at all rates! I'm just getting started ...

I don't have Ivanushka. I make teas only from garden sauces. I made my first tea at the end of May. I am doing it calmer this season. There is no longer any need to check for like or dislike of different plants. So ... 2 kg of ready-made tea per week is about. The heat was - almost 2 weeks did not do it at all. Therefore, 20 kg is not yet available. But, there is still August and September ahead! I won't do it in October. Last year's October has to be mixed with summer ones. We didn't like it. And dry leaves are very difficult to recycle. I think I'll do 40 kg.

Yesterday I went to a friend's dacha and picked up strawberry, raspberry and cherry leaves. I will make of them. And she asked my dad to take me more ivanushki.

Yesterday's results for 2.5 daily + 6-8 hours of tea fermentation. The result is the same, with a thick honey smell when dried in the oven. There is a difference from 1.5 days in the bank. 2.5 daily - the leaves are kneaded faster, everything is evenly colored, at the exit the bun is smaller, denser. The first batch was dried after 6 hours of fermentation, the second came out after 8 hours, since the oven was busy. The tea turned out to be black, it smells nice dry. I brewed fresh, freshly dried, the color is very rich in cognac, it smells good in the teapot until I can judge ... frail, but I’m not watching much chic yet, I’ll wait now at least a month, then draw conclusions))))

24 liters of ready-made granulated willow tea

I'm in a swoon

Will you drink so much?

[Seberia]

Seberia, Elena, let it stay better!

I think I'll do 40 kg.

Radushka! Can you really master the tea runoff to drink? Or are you already on gifts or sale, for careless girlfriends?

The first year I did little, the topic got caught late, so then I saved every crumb!

[Irina]

Irina, 20 we will drink it ourselves. We have a big family (clan, so to speak). The rest will go for gifts, mostly. In the spring I sold 10 kg. But, I give more, of course. But there is always something to give. Yes, we'll drink last year's. There, of course, not 20 are already left, but while we finish drinking, the fresh one will already be infused

Will you drink so much?

Of course we won't! I do it with the expectation of gifts, and since tea is stored for a long time, I don't know if I will have the opportunity to make tea in Kursk. (There is no dacha). And here I am cleaning abandoned gardens .... Well, I really like the process.

let it stay better!

It is yes
I admire such volumes made
A maximum of three kilograms is enough for me.

white-pink and fluffy are different teas

[/ b]
Girls! hu is white-pink ???
I made a fluffy one, made a mix with leaves. What did I miss?

Added on Friday 22 Jul 2016 06:20 PM

Unfortunately, all themes, cat. I'm interested in just physically I can't handle
This year, for the first time, I decided to put withered leaves in the freezer. I put it in a bag without a rag. It is definitely easier to process frozen leaves with a meat grinder.
And one more experience. Previously dried only in a dryer. And this year I decided to dry it in the oven with "hot", as in the topic about Fluffy tea. The smell of dried in the oven is stronger, but I have not tasted it yet.

[Elena]

Elena,

Ivan-tea "White-pink" (from the tops) (lappl1)

[Radushka]

Radushka, Thanks for the quick response! I am now going through the collected raw materials

Added Friday 22 Jul 2016 06:32 PM

But this is already next year. We have almost faded

Look in the shady woods!

Girls, does anyone collect meadowsweet (meadowsweet)?
I really like seagulls with her, but I didn't find it here. If anyone has one, I would order

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, Neeeee, on the scale of tea it is unrealistic to find such a site

[naturalife]

naturalife, everyone scolds, but she likes

[naturalife]

I'm in a swoon

Will you drink so much?

The family is big - they did it not for sale, but for themselves. For our family, this is not for the whole year in a row, but alternating with other herbal teas.

Added Friday 22 Jul 2016 09:39 PM

Girls, does anyone collect meadowsweet (meadowsweet)?
I really like seagulls with her, but I didn't find it here.

naturalife, you have meadowsweet growing in the Rostov region. But not visleaf (which grows as a bush), but common meadowsweet. There is a lot of it in the fields in damp lowlands. I know because I saw her myself when I go to visit. It blooms with you in late May and early June. The smell with the vis-leaved meadowsweet is very similar, the properties are also, and also its root nodules are used as a spice - they have their own bright aroma. Wikipedia immediately gives a picture of the common meadowsweet, it still has leaves that look like yarrow. Perhaps you often walked by and did not know that it was her

[naturalife]

naturalife, everyone scolds, but she likes

Well it scolds that ???
I used to buy Ivashka with a meadowsweet all the time, so this was one of my favorite teas ...
Honey reminds

Good day. Take in your ranks. It seems like I should finally have tea. Tests to make it have previously resulted in regular black tea. Now I tried to do it, keeping it in a jar for 1.5 days, and the tea smell. Now in the oven and smells real. Made a composite - Ivan-tea + raspberries + 1/2 handful of cherries. And more ... About 160 pages, someone wrote that he regretted having to throw out the young juicy stems. So, in our country they are prepared like a fern, only the stems are harvested when willow tea is just beginning to germinate, that is, 10-15 cm from the ground, I will make a reservation that this does not harm our population, because it grows everywhere and in huge quantities.

[natu]

natu, What does it smell like? I also decided to try to do it in the bank. I just filled a three-liter with a sheet. How many leaves go into a 3-liter jar!

Girls, how to do it in the bank? Poke where to read. Thank you.

Hello!
Tell me, please, who knows: should Ivan tea smell sour during the initial drying (in an electric oven)? I ferment, dry - at first the smell is sour, but then, when the leaf dries completely, a pleasant aroma appears more and more. Is that how it should be?
Cooking technology:
Raw material - 1.1kg.
Drying on canvas at home at +24 degrees - 18 hours.
Twisting in the palms - 1 hour.
Fermentation at a temperature of +28 degrees, without oppression, in an enamel 4-liter saucepan covered with a damp linen towel - 4 hours.

[ninza]

ninza, on page 195 read the penultimate post

[mironirina]

mironirina, Irina, I divide this way, 1 liter of a very densely packed sheet = 1 batch = 1 bun, 1 bun = 2 baking sheets, about 600-700 gram can of dry tea will turn out. This means a 3-liter can = 3 mixes and approximately 1.8 - 2 liters of dry tea.

Well, you girls and give !!! Specially I counted how much I had Ivan tea - granulated 7 liters, and from the garden + Ivanushka another 2 liters, well, a little leafy, I don't really think it, it didn't work out well, some of the leaves dried up green, but my hand did not rise to throw it away ... So my husband is already squinting at me with an unkind look. So this is 2 kilograms at most, and 40 kg in my head just does not fit. Respect to you! And I bought a bunch of jars for myself, today I poured some tea. Tomorrow, if it doesn't rain again (we have been flooding for a week already), I'll try to look for some more Ivan for tea, if he hasn't rotted, but he hasn't fluffed up all over.

[mironirina]

mironirinaHow many, I didn’t count, I put in kopeck piece, just plump. And it smells of either flowers, or slightly fermented honey.

[natu]

natu, and how to smell something ?! The bank is closed, but I'm afraid to open it, so as not to frighten off the process!)) I was killed to fill the bank yesterday! Semblis wrote that it should be tight, so I tried to follow the recommendations. And a whole sheet of tea lies dry! I will do it in the classic way.

In terms of volume, 4 liters of fireweed were taken to the city, so that the eyes would not be irritated, 2 liters. the jar remained here, at the dacha, poured the remains of different fermentation periods there - we drink from it, and gave it to our relatives from the same place for tasting, already half of the jar remained. 3 l. the second batch of fireweed + a liter of fluffy, + almost a liter of forest mix, + a handful of "mojito" - this is my asset. The total volume is 9 liters. And now I have a meat grinder eeeee, now nothing can stop me! The neighbors gave a tip, where a lot of good fireweed grows, and it seems like it’s easier to get to it there (at first it was written “to break through”, reservations according to Freud, hehe ...)

[Yanka]

Yanka, Tatyana,

already half of the can is left

exactly! A pound of tea is barely enough for my husband and I for just a month. This is if the two of us drink and not too actively! And the guests? About "present" and bring them into a present, then, in general, I am silent! True, half a kilo of garden ones is not half a kilo of Koporsk ... alas and ah ... Sadovy is consumed much faster.
Victory me, banks are beautiful! Of these, tea will be even tastier, I'm sure!

[mironirina]

mironirina, do not be afraid to open the can, if you really want to, I assure you that it smells very good in the can, you open it before mixing, the air from there phew. But after kneading, the smell is so sharp, it does not look like honey and flowers. Everything will be very good! Just let the koloboks stand for at least 6 hours, and the smell will go only in the oven, the koloboks smell very weak. I would have stuffed the rest into the freezer)))) Yesterday evening I dried it, after 4 days of freezer + 6 hours and 8 hours of frementation, the result is very good, the smell in drying is pleasant, without sourness, floral and hints of honey. The only wish is to break the lumps as best as possible after cutting, the merged pieces dry for a long time, if such a wet piece gets into a jar of dry tea, it will ruin everything. What I missed I take out right on a hot baking sheet when I stir the tea.

[Semblis]

Semblis, Marina, just in case, I'll clarify if I understand correctly. Kneading, this grass taken out of a can crumples like dough and a bun rolls out of it, carefully crumpled, right? Gingerbread man in a bag, we tie the bag, a wet towel on top, right?

[mironirina]

mironirina, Ira, squeeze air into a bag, twist or tie it and wrap it in a dry cloth)))) so that the wet bun does not cool down, although they write the mixture heats up during fermentation, I did not feel this moment, the wet bun in the bag is cool.) )) The kneading was understood correctly, this is grass from a can, knead and shake (disassemble all the lumps with your hands), wrinkle and shake again, you will see everything yourself, the unwrinkled leaves are visible immediately, wrinkle and shake for 10-12 minutes.

Girls, another question is, until when can you collect Ivanushka's leaf? Guess it's before redness, right? I tried to find the collection dates on the first page, but I didn't see something.

[mironirina]

mironirina, I did not smell in the jar, I just opened it for 1.5 days, the grass was green, and after opening it changed color to dark before my eyes. And yet ... I did not do it by kneading, but used a meat grinder. As for the density of filling the cans, I was not particularly killed, I just compacted with my fist as much as possible. Now I returned home from nature, brought a couple of liters of blueberry leaves, also put them in a jar, but there are not many leaves and they lie there freely. I will experiment in general. Something looking for this will come of it.

Girls, and I arrived today upset, it rained for a week, there were thunderstorms, I was very afraid to go to the forest, and no one canceled the work. I arrived today, and there all my plots with Ivan-tea started running, there are almost no good leaves. All my plans about "not less than 4 baskets" were covered with a copper basin. Somehow I picked 2 baskets, in one place someone had been collecting Ivanushka for a long time and young twigs grew, on the other, despite the two-meter plants, the leaves were quite conditioned, but not much, in short, I did not quench my thirst. Therefore, I got what I needed - a basket of raspberry leaves (forest), a basket of wild apple trees and half a small basket of oregano.I put everything dry. I'll twist it in the evening. I forgot, I still scored a pound of boxes, I'll try to make a fluffy one.

[Victory me]

Victory me, rejoice at what you typed. Basically, only ivanushka can be prepared. But mine did not appreciate my tea and today I did not start to procure it either.

a basket of raspberry leaves (forest), a basket of wild apple and half a small basket of oregano.

This does not grow here at all.

But mine did not appreciate my tea and today I did not start to procure it either.

It's a shame, however!
And drink from the store ???

And drink from the store ???

They drink, but we approach the purchase of tea leaves meticulously.

[Albina]

Albinagood tea is expensive. Last week they brought fireweed, laid them on a sheet, I sit, I choose snails and the TV is on, and there is a program on TVC about tea)))) what kind of junk we drink, how we add flavorings, but I hate them and even drink good tea I can, everything is tied in a knot in my mouth and the pressure drops. Therefore, there are 3 more kopeck pieces densely stuffed with fireweed))) and ran cans and bought 3 tin pieces, size 10 by 15 cm, large)))

we approach the purchase of tea leaves meticulously

We have good teas, like a plane! Don't get too drunk!

add flavorings, and I hate them

And we even add flavorings to pharmaceutical medicinal teas! And I also can't stand flavorings in any form!

[filirina]

filirina, aha! They will throw petals for the species, but we know that dried petals do not give a smell.

Honestly, I don’t feel very well these days, so I didn’t take tea. Although we now have a real SUMMER for 1.5 months. It's getting colder today: most likely the summer is over. By the end of the week, the usual temperature for our places will be +10 (below at night)

And for some time now I can't drink purchased tea at all, neither black nor green - my heart immediately begins to pound strongly, even if I brew just a little ... there is no such reaction to coffee, although I drink very strong. I drink my own tea - everything is fine, even somehow it turned out that the fireweed of prolonged fermentation was very strong brewed, was tart and even slightly astringent, and nothing. On the contrary, their teas - they are kind of ... energetic, or something, after them, immediately cheerfulness is such as the reins fall under the tail!

And when it's winter ... there is no sun ... you brew Ivanushka, you sit, you drag! and the mood rises, and the pressure is normalized.

Iron cans ?! It seems like when interacting with metals, vitamin C is destroyed. I try not to brew even in a glass teapot with a metal press, although it is very convenient and effective. And I try to store in food plastic (molds) or in glass jars with lids, in which the inside is polyurethane spraying. After all, if I am not mistaken, Ivan-Tea contains more than 16 times more vitamin C than lemon.

[Citizen]

Citizen, do you think that after drying, rolling, fermentation, drying a lot of that vitamin C will remain there?

and the pressure is normalized.

And today my mom came and asked for another tea, not even aged. She said that, strangely enough, her blood pressure had been normal for a month (she even brought her own tanometer, compared the readings with ours), and she was 76 years old, her blood pressure was usually low and even 140 to 90 was deadly high for her. He drinks my Ivanushka and garden mixes, he does not drink at the store. She connects it with my teas

[Citizen]

Citizen, aha, would they begin to pack expensive teas in cans ... Tea is dry, what kind of interaction is there? But the food containers were weathered for several days on an open window so that there was no smell of plastic ... I have tea everywhere and in glass jars in plastic and tin))))
Mila1, health to your mom and many years to come!