Ivan tea (fermentation of fireweed leaves) - master class

[Zhenya]

Zhenya, he is still quite small - without flowers (5 - 8 cm), so he may not be found. It is recognizable only when it blooms. Or the same as we, tea-makers. Therefore, a knowledgeable person is needed to be shown how he looks.

I can recognize Ivan-tea, it surprises me that not a single granny said that it was too early, the flower had not yet come out, etc. of that sort. Just stupidly surprised at the name. strange, it seems to me that grannies should know

[Ludmila]

just looked through the books "Healing fees", "Green Pharmacy", they do not contain fireweed or Ivan-tea, I wonder why ???
Ludmila, I bought tea in our store at 350r per 100g, this is last year. And here I ordered mostly pure tea and 100g each with mint, lemon balm, linden, currant leaf.

[Zhenya]

Zhenya, we have a heavy rain now, but maybe on the highway where my husband is driving, he is not.
I had a book about how plants are called differently in different areas, I was very surprised at this, maybe here fireweed is called differently. Now from the photo I know Ivan-tea, I met him in the Karaganda region in childhood, but I do not remember what he was called there.

[Zhenya]

I am surprised that not a single granny said that it was too early, the flower had not yet come out, etc. of that sort. Just stupidly surprised at the name. strange, it seems to me that grannies should know

Zhenya, yes, it's strange ... We all know. It was the grannies who told me what was growing in my meadow. That is how my acquaintance with Ivan-tea began.

just looked through the books "Healing fees", "Green Pharmacy", they do not contain fireweed or Ivan-tea, I wonder why ???

Allareally strange. A truly Russian plant should be in the collections.

So my Pretzel started asking from Peter. well, somewhere the name had to work. (((here is a piece of the Novgorod region I drove through, I spent all my childhood with my grandmother in the village, they know Ivan-tea there

[Alla]

but maybe on the highway where my husband goes, he is not.

Alla, when I go to Moscow or St. Petersburg, Ivan tea grows all the way along the way. There is no place to be. It's just that it is small now, because of last year's grass it may not be visible. And my aunt lives in St. Petersburg. Dacha 100 km from St. Petersburg. She also calls him Ivan-tea.
It seems to me that the old ladies were not very inclined to communicate.

What is this being done?

Maiden memory))))))))

in the Karaganda region

Are you from Kazakhstan?))

[Sergei]

Sergei, Alla once lived in Kazakhstan for a long time. I am responsible for her, since she does not often visit the site. So we, former Kazakhs, are not so few here.

Girls boys !!!! Uryayayayayayayaya! I already have the leaves. The smell from fresh leaves is breathtaking! there is no such thing from the old ones. Gentle, strong. So, every day I will do it young. And I advise you.

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudochka! How will you do it? Meat grinder or by hand? And will you use the stems?
I also went ... got some ... put some dried. The truth is not enough - 600 grams, so I think while there is no rain, go collect a little more.

[Borisyonok]

Borisyonok, Helen, I will not use the stems, as there will be uneven drying. The stems are thick and will take longer to dry. I do not want to keep the tea for too long to dry.
And I will only do granulated, through a meat grinder. I like it more - more aromatic, tastier and darker. A light sheet turns out. and I love black. And the sheet takes up a lot of space.

So I think while there is no rain, go collect some more.

That's right, Lenochka, go and collect.it won't rain anymore. But I believe that we should not miss the opportunity to make young fireweed. Its aroma is incomparable.

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudochka! How much will you ferment? otherwise I typed, and tomorrow morning I'll leave for the whole day ... now I'm thinking how to get out ...
Maybe leave it on wither until tomorrow evening? ... then you will have to ferment all night ...
Quit your job right now!

Lena, how will the leaves wilted? If they dry up in the evening, although I doubt it (it's cool in the house), then I'll put it on for the night, for 10-12 hours. I like this fermentation the most. You can, of course, leave it until tomorrow evening. Place the leaves where it is not very dry. in general, now the leaves are very juicy, they will wither for a long time.

Lyudochka, what green leaves, they are all healthy, without a spot!
We need to go for Ivan's tea, we don't have him close. I also want to prepare May, I have never collected it.
Luda, this is already so big, in an open place, but in the forest, probably still small?

[Sergei]

Are you from Kazakhstan?))

Sergei, you can write to me in a personal.

[Marina]

Luda, this is already so big, in an open place, but in the forest, probably still small?

Marina, the husband collected in the open. And it doesn't grow in our forest - only along the edge of the forest. But if from the north side, then, of course, still small.

what green leaves, all healthy, without a spot!

Yeah, young ones - they are always so healthy. and such will be until July. then all sorts of insects will begin to gnaw them.

They are teasing here

Luda, thank you again. I finished last year's hour, and now, well, I can’t drink any purchased one, neither taste nor aroma. I'll go to the dacha the other day, I will also collect, the benefit is growing both on the site and behind the site.

[Basja]

They are teasing here

Zhen, and Zhen, aha, it turns out that way. But you know, now I know that if I didn’t have fireweed, I would calmly make Village teas of any composition and proportions. After all, it turns out cool. Sometimes I don't drink Ivan tea for several weeks, getting addicted to some cherry-apple-raspberry one. Of course, I would like everyone to grow Ivan tea, but what can you do? But we do not have that abundance of fruits, vegetables and berries that you have. For us, growing tomatoes and some vegetables is almost a feat in our conditions. And here they grow like weeds in the open air. I know this because in Alma-Ata I went to my tomatoes only to plant and then pick them. It was especially good for them in the weeds - it was not so hot. So, do not get upset, but use what we have.

Luda, thank you again. I finished last year's hour, and now, well, I can’t drink any purchased one, neither taste nor aroma. I'll go to the dacha the other day, I will also collect, the benefit is growing both on the site and behind the site.

Basja, Ninochka, thank you too. I am very glad that I put you on such a good job. Make and drink tea for health!

[loksa Oksana]

So you can congratulate me on the beginning of the tea season!
Yesterday loksa Oksana gave me a package with young shoots of Ivan tea. How beautiful and delicate they are, like the embodiment of spring straight.
Yesterday I left them to wither a little. This morning I rubbed it with my hands. I decided not to bother with a meat grinder - the leaves are very tender. Knead a little like dough - from the edges to the center. The leaves turned into soft dark green needles, they smelled like childhood, freedom and freshness. Finally, I stirred up the Ivanka "dough", took apart the lumps, mats, crushed it, covered the glass bowl with a plate and a towel, put it in the bathroom - there is now the warmest place. The smell already from fresh-sourish moves towards fruity. Let's see what will happen next .

Nastya, congratulations! Oksanchik, well done, what are you sharing with Nastya! Nastenka, how beautifully you describe the process! I read your posts.

Yesterday I left them to wither a little.

Nastenka, you have dried the leaves properly - according to science. if you don't do it, the tea will be worse. I didn’t do it yesterday.the leaves are very juicy, it took longer to dry. Now I'm drying tea! Smell !!!!!!!!!

[Nastenka!]

The leaves turned into dark green soft needles, smelled of childhood, freedom and freshness

Nastenka! What is your creative nature !!!! How beautifully you described !!!!! I wish you delicious and healthy tea !!!

And my plants never came up, apparently they froze in winter ... well, nothing, I ordered Ivan Hour from the monastery on the Internet (I made a donation at the same time!), And now I am very carefully working on the topic of fermented tea from leaves, harvested using the technology described in this topic. I like this process so much (study and, in fact, the manufacturing process itself!), The main thing is to get it done!
Yesterday I cooked seam-shchipnik jam, licked it, yummyooooooh !!!!

[Luda]

Luda, well, do not embarrass me with praises! Natusichka, well, here you are too! Thank you for your wishes!
These sensations and smells are true from childhood: on Sakhalin spring comes later, and you catch every warm hillock and every blade of grass. And so it pulls to rip and chew or just breathe in the smell of herbal juice, awakened nature ...
It's just that I shoveled so much faceless information about making tea and nowhere did I find any mention of this incredible smell of fresh Ivan tea ... People write dryly and formally, but Ivanushka has not just a fresh smell, but initially with sourness! And after crushing the young leaves, in addition to the herbal smell, I already began to smell the slight smell of applesauce. I go every 2 hours and check it as long as possible.
Maybe if we describe our perception of smell more precisely, it will help someone.

My leaves were very delicate and even slightly twisted: if you squeeze them in your hand, they remained a lump.

Natalia! I know that people planted seeds in a scorched area before winter, they also brought ash there. Perhaps not right away, but willow tea will grow! In our country it reproduces by self-seeding too. The main thing is not to give up! I will keep in mind and I will definitely pick up the seeds.

Nastasya! Don't overuse fermentation in the bathroom! With high humidity, you can get moldy raw materials. Molds love to live in bathrooms! Warm and wet ... And they are very volatile.

[Veronica]

Veronica! Thanks for the advice! If anything, I’ll dip the bowl with the fermentable in the kitchen sink with warm water. But what about when I'm at work? Again, it looks like the bath is my way out.
Our bathroom is warm and rather dry, because there is always a hot heated towel rail and good ventilation, and the apartment is now almost 18 grams. With such coldness, fermentation will definitely not start. By the way, you need to go to Ivan-tea to stick a thermometer in order to know what's what ...

Nastya, in the bathroom the raw tea is growing moldy, the people had it, and the leaven, too, was repeatedly. Then put the pot higher in the bathroom and don't close the door tightly. Last season, I put the bowl in a saucepan with a small amount of warm water, closed the top with a lid, leaving a small gap, and wrapped it in a warm jacket. The house was not hot at all. But the tea was good!

I kept a prefe in the bathroom, I have the same warmest place there, can we wrap it up? Or hang a dryer on a towel? Can I still put hot water in the oven ?!
Or in a micra, a glass of water that has been heated there in advance? I hung it on the radiator in the bathroom!

[Veronica]

Veronica, and the leaven is moldy ?!
Tax, went to look for an alternative dry and anti-sachet place!

Oksanchik! Thanks for the science, I will try in the microwaves and ovens too! I'm just afraid to overheat ...

And a double thank you for Ivanushka!

no store-bought, no taste, no aroma.

I really want to drink some tea. I never drank tea from Ivanushka. How many did not look for in winter pure fireweed no. Only blends. And I really want to drink clean without additives))))).

Nastya, yes. I saw the topic about leaven when I read about their different types. During the breeding stage, people were kept in the bathroom, and she died, moldy. And someone's tea got moldy last year. So I'm waiting for it when it gets warmer. Or take something winter and wrap it up.
Oksana, you still hang on to the ceiling! And run someone thread after that into the bathroom ... from the guests ... The pre-enzyme wants - it will become moldy in the bathroom too, the environment is suitable. There is not enough ventilation in our bathrooms.

Tax, went to look for an alternative dry and anti-sachet place!

Nastya, don't reinvent the wheel! Everything is very simple! You take a box, put all sorts of synthetic winterizer in it, you can have a couple of jackets. You put a container with leaves there, cover it with something warm. On top of the box - a pair of blankets. If there is a good layer of leaves - about 10 cm, then in the tea mass during fermentation there is self-heating. this heat is sufficient during fermentation. I also have 17 * in the house. But such a box saves. Here is a photo of my box, but with yogurt. The warmth remains until the day. and yogurt always turns out. Before sending the container with tea to the box, you can hold it in warm water (30 degrees) to start the process.

Oksana, you still hang on to the ceiling! And run someone thread after that into the bathroom ... from the guests ...

Veronichek, I was laughing ... Yes, a humid environment promotes the formation of mold.

Here is the first tea. turned out to be very black in color. The flash becomes lighter in color. I hung it up now to dry.

Lud, I’m trying to convey the same thing - to wrap it up in warm and it will be good! And they went to the dryer, to the micra ... Testers!

Disobedient ... we must invite Lenochka with a shovel here!

Lyuda, fireweed, dear, favorite ... I WANT CYPRUS !!!

Lyudochka, Lena then runs away with shovels, so many people to build! And she won't make any Ivan-tea for herself, she's responsible!

[Natusichka]

And my plants never sprouted, apparently they froze in winter ... well, nothing, I ordered Ivan Hour from the monastery on the Internet (I made a donation at the same time!), And now I am very carefully working on the topic of fermented tea from leaves, harvested using the technology described in this topic. I like this process so much (study and, in fact, the manufacturing process itself!), The main thing is to get it done!

Natusichka, it’s a pity that we didn’t climb. So make tea with garden herbs. You will definitely succeed!

I really want to drink some tea. I never drank tea from Ivanushka. How many did not look for pure fireweed in winter, no. Only blends. And I really want to drink clean without additives))))).

Sergey, you should have it soon. so do it yourself!

Luda, fireweed, dear, favorite ... I WANT CYPRUS !!!

Veronichek, do it! Galya made the little ones pick me up yesterday. I obeyed. The leaves are now drying. I tried to leave a stem of 10 centimeters. I plucked the rest and peeled at home. In the place where it plucked, it will grow even more. It's strange, you write that it is raining here, but it is cloudy and windy here, but there is no rain. The fireweed is all dry.
Veronichek, pick some tiny shoots. It's true, the tea turns out to be crazy! This will not happen in the summer, and even more so in the fall.

Lena then runs away with shovels, so many people build! And she won't make any Ivan-tea for herself, she's responsible!

Yes ... We'll have to build everyone!

Luda, it has been drizzling fine in the morning, but there is almost no wind. Fireweed yesterday I looked, I already took a fancy to the clearing for destruction at an early age. Then let him go into the bush!

Oh, Luda, the tea season has already opened! Well, you are operational! You can't keep up with you, you are smart. And I didn't even think that there was already Ivan-tea. And I need to look for a place, I really want to do it myself. Happy new season to you! With delicious tea! Mentally I'm with you

Fireweed yesterday I looked, I already took a fancy to the clearing for destruction at an early age. Then let him go into the bush!

And I have fireweed 100 meters from the house. For some reason I didn’t vomit it there last year. And a lot. And now the other grass is very small and easy to collect.

new season for you! With delicious tea! Mentally I'm with you

Svetochka, don't mentally! Join us! Young Ivan-tea is very good!

Hello everybody!
I've been reading you on the sly all winter. Now closer to the season I really want to join your tea company. Fireweed around our house is growing immeasurably. Now I will process it into tea. What's good to just disappear like that?
I want to ask ... And in our latitudes (in the middle lane) what herb goes first to tea? How not to miss that ...

[A.lenka]

A.lenka, Lena, welcome to our friendly tea company. Correctly what you read. Now we have to do business, make tea.

And in our latitudes (in the middle lane) which herb goes first to tea? How not to miss that ...

Lena, this is how the fireweed goes. The first and almost the only one. Here's what I laid out in my recipes, those plants will be enough to make a lot of different and good tea. You ivan-tea do not remake. I advise you not to waste time looking for some herbs, but to make as much willow tea as possible. Because this is the king of teas. And then, from July, you can make mono-teas and mixes from garden plants - apple, cherry, strawberry, pear, raspberry, currant, blackberry. Now you can make pine shoots. A very tasty and healthy addition to tea.
And different herbs. usually, do not contain tannins - the main ones in order to make a delicious drink from them. And herbs are best collected not for tea, but for treatment. But they need to be dried, not fermented. And use it as intended, not for delicious tea.

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudmila, thank you! I'll go on a fireweed exploration the other day.

Luda, our fireweed begins on the site. Favorite gathering place - at the back of the site, on the border with the neighboring site. A band 10 m wide and about 50 m long, impassable frequency. Last year my nephew and I did not go further 5 meters deep. And a little further, at the edge, at about 50 meters you still have to go, the islands are round, beautiful! And then - wherever you look. I will go to the village pond, there is a sun, but where is it, this is the sun ... Then you won't stick in there, you'll break your legs.

we have fireweed begins on the site. Favorite gathering place - at the back of the site

Happy