Fermented tea made from leaves of garden and wild plants (master class)

[Mary Poppins]

Granulated tea, both. To clarify, cherry with fireweed, probably in half, if you haven't recorded the proportions, then in approximately equal parts. Fermentation for 10 hours. Probably a long time.

Mary Poppins, no, such tea should be very aromatic, with a distinct cherry flavor. Now I drink this tea - fireweed + cherry. Proportions 10: 1. There are very few cherries, but it gives a crazy aroma and taste to tea! Fermented for 12 hours. This is a very good time for fireweed and cherries.
And here

Home cherry))

could give a faint aroma and taste. I have a couple of noble varietal cherry trees. little more. But I tried to make tea with her. So, I didn’t feel it at all in Village Tea. Although the same ratio with the neighboring cherry growing like wild, behind the fence, gives a very strong taste and aroma.

There is blackberry with fireweed, there is also pure, fermentation is also the same. It was once cultural, for 10-20 years it was non-cultured.

We have such a blackberry in our village - from the former cultural! It grows very beautifully! The leaves are larger than those of the wild blackberry. The berries are less tart. A neighbor gave me the go-ahead to cut off all the leaves. But after 2 attempts to make tea, I realized that this is not the kind of chokeberry with which I always made tea. And I returned to wild chokeberry, although the leaves were difficult to collect there.

Girls, forgive for the inflicted past and future (God forbid) offenses.

Girls, good morning. Happy Holidays to all. I beg your pardon from the bottom of my heart

Helen, Nastenka, God will forgive ...

[Borisyonok]

Borisyonok, Helen-Kitty,lappl1, Lyudochka,elena kadiewa, Helen,Natalia-65, Natasha, girls, God forgive! and I forgive! Girls and forgive me, maybe she offended someone, or upset! Maybe she wrote too much or not!

Xun,

God will forgive! and I forgive!

Ksyusha, but as it turns out, you have to answer: "God will forgive. And I forgive" ... I will know, thank you. Well, God will forgive you, but there is nothing to forgive you! Your presence in the topic is always happy! As well as the presence of all the other girls!

Girls with Shrovetide YOU. I wish you all good luck, love, health and family well-being!

Later I will sit watching bread recipes. Maybe I will have a new recipe. I'll bake after the holidays or tomorrow, today I don't have time. The bread is delicious! The recipe is not time consuming.

[Mary Poppins]

My dear girls! And forgive me for what you think is necessary! And I forgive everyone. And God will forgive everyone.
Luda, and you personally forgive me for not baking your extreme pancakes. CAN'T MORE !!! Later, okay? Here grandchildren come - pampered boys, they adore sweets!
Mary Poppins, a slight aroma may also depend on the drying mode. Overdried, overheated raw materials, insufficient air circulation are many factors.

Girls, forgive me for the insults, maybe she upset someone, maybe she wrote the wrong thing.
I answer everyone God will forgive! and I forgive!

Luda, and you personally forgive me for not baking your extreme pancakes. CAN'T MORE !!! Later, okay? Here grandchildren come - pampered boys, they adore sweets!

Oh, Veronica, it's not you who should ask for forgiveness for not baking the Chocolate Girl now! I must apologize for filling you with recipes! So sorry if you can. And in my defense, at the end of Shrovetide, in the evening I will lay out another recipe for pancakes - a dietary one.Just don't throw your slippers. And don't bake them ... Okay? Well, if only then sometime, when you decide to lose weight ... Because these pancakes are slimming ...

Mary Poppins, a mild aroma may still depend on the drying regime. Overdried, overheated raw materials, insufficient air circulation are many factors.

Exactly, Veronica! Thanks for the addition! And I will add more. If a thick layer of tea is poured onto a baking sheet, steaming of the tea and loss of aroma also occurs. I, as much as I would not like to dry everything at once, if there is a lot of tea, I dry it in 2 passes. I spread it out no more than 1 cm thick, and even less, with gaps. Then the tea dries quickly, does not get steamed and turns out fragrant.

Later I will sit watching bread recipes. Maybe I will have a new recipe. I'll bake after the holidays or tomorrow, today I don't have time. The bread is delicious! The recipe is not time consuming.

Tonya, we'll wait. I already want bread, otherwise the pancakes interfere with the baking of bread, and there is also.

[lappl1]

lappl1, paramed1Thanks for the recommendations.
That's for sure - live, learn
Maybe it's really not the same blackberry, but we'll deal with cherries, I'll try a different drying mode. But first I fry everything in a frying pan, then in an electric dryer, at an average rate, I don’t remember now) Yes, I sometimes rush to fry everything faster and I get 2-3 cm, 1 cm rarely worked.

[Mary Poppins]

Mary Poppins, and an electric dryer is not very suitable for tea. There the maximum temperature is stated to be 70, but in fact it depends on the voltage, it may be lower. Especially if on the upper tiers. It is better to dry in an oven with a slightly open door, in an airfryer (I dried a lot of tea in it, and there are no complaints about the quality), the girls even dried in a multicooker, but there it turns out to dry a small volume in one go. Moreover, if it is difficult to spoil the fireweed, then the rest of the leaves lose their aroma easily, even with improper storage. Fireweed is similar in composition to tea leaves, tannins are associated with aromatic substances. And in the leaves of garden plants there are fewer tannins, essential oils are present in greater quantities and are different in composition, so they, not associated with anything, evaporate. In short, we must try to comply with the production technology as accurately as possible for each type of raw material.

Girls, only from the dacha: visit the girls-chickens, feed them, give them water (Galya knows), finish the chicken coop to the end, at least outside, and cheer the fishermen. Here I returned to a normal Internet. Forgive me for Christ's sake for voluntary and involuntary offenses!... I forgive everyone, let you God will forgive!

Lina and everyone - all girls, God will forgive me and forgive me for Christ's sake, if she offended someone with a word or inattention!

Girls, all of you with a wide Shrovetide and forgive me for everything, I didn't want to offend you, but suddenly, voluntarily, I said something offensive to someone, forgive for GOD's sake !!!! I adore you all, respect and forgive everyone, like our God. I am proud of you and thank you all for everything !!!
Yeah, Lina and I have entertained the fishermen today, we succeeded, and her chickens are just lovely, they promised to run well this year, I fed them, gave them water, and Lina went straight to the ski track, I barely caught up with her. In short, complete relaxation after interacting with nature!

Means, has recovered!

Galya is being modest, she overtook me and then flirted with the fishermen while I crawled. And when we returned, I persuaded the remaining shamanic one (together with me), and then we honestly drank tea ... Ivanushka.

My champagne! Alcoholics!

My champagne!

No, Len! your zanykano (even Galya does not know where)

Good girl, girl, I shouldn't worry. Have you escorted my drunkard home? And then again where in a snowdrift it will fall, but I worry!

Len, she spends the night with chickens, there is warmth and a snack, and ... Do not worry. When will you pick up your shamanistic?

Linaaaa, she's there and will sing chickens! Well this is Galya!

I can't stand it, they are stable (trained).

yes, yes, raw eggs are an excellent snack and if that comes in handy in the morning. Lenochka, don't be afraid, I know where the champagne is, I'm just a decent girl, I won't drink someone else's, Lina, did I see in the hay outside the door what was buried ??? And the fisherman is nothing like that ... he said that he was single, and when you dragged along, he ruined all the raspberries

Well, Galina Ivanovna has already reached Moscow on skis, and soon Lenochka will reach you too, and on the way she may stop in Nizhny.

and when you came along, you ruined all the raspberries

Blinnnn! I slowed down, slowed down, but still I got there at the wrong time ... I'm sorry ... Next time I'll take off my skis ...

That's it, girls ... you can now relax ... The guests are fed, watered ... everyone is happy ... Today my husband even made Maslena for me ... our dog was generally shocked ... she's like a big cat by nature , and barked and rushed at her like a guard dog.

Girls, you are from a decent Khlebopechkin family, how can you throw yourself at fishermen like that? even bachelors. (Was he cute though?) And where is he now, also in the chicken coop?
Happy such, met!

And where is he now, also in the chicken coop?

No, we are decent ... we measure champagne together ... well, if we don't count the female chickens around us (Will you be the third? We'll dig yours out of the hay ...)

Well, if you wait!
Oh, and I love this business - to crackle in good company! Luda will send us to get treatment soon, as soon as Lina left work, she immediately became the winner and gave everyone a drink .. Almost.

Wait, wait, yes Gal ?! We have already washed the glass and we are keeping the hay with ..., come on quickly

Take a snack?

Flax, you offend, everything is there, the freshest ... Run faster, I protect with my chest ... your hay ... (Luda, forgive us ... balabolok)

That's it, girls ... you can now relax ... The guests are fed, watered ... everyone is happy ... Today my husband even made Maslena for me ... our dog was generally shocked ... she's like a big cat by nature , and barked and rushed at her like a guard dog.

Linen! What a fine fellow you have! What Maslena! Even I didn’t realize! Now we have to wait until the next carnival!
Linochka, balabolte, dear! I read you with pleasure. Just don't always have time to chat!

Already left, only when I get there, I don't know, I'm tired today. Good night everyone, I went to drink with Lina!
Aaaa, I forgot, Luda, if we can, we will drop by your place, you promised to treat me with cider! Girls, we are starting to celebrate the holiday of our men, we have already arrived.

Next time I'll take off my skis ...

and next time finally go the other way
but as the fisherman saw you, he shouted so sharply aside from me: My mermaid came! sailed! Mermaid
Yes, tomorrow we will congratulate our men, I have 3 of them in my house, it seems I counted correctly.
Where are we without them! (And they where without us, whether they understand it or not)
Today I made only sour cream and baked charlotte - everything is prosaic)

Lyuda, if we can, we will drop by your place, you promised to treat me with cider!

Come on, Lenok, drop in! I'm always ready to drink cider! And not only !

tomorrow we will congratulate our men, I have 3 of them in my house, it seems I counted correctly.

I have the same.

[Mary Poppins]

Mary Poppins, and an electric dryer is not very suitable for tea. The maximum temperature there is stated to be 70, but in fact it depends on the voltage, it may be lower.

At first I fryed, then in the dryer, it seemed like it should be ... I exhibited in degrees, as Lyudmila recommended, now I don't remember.
I am engaged in tea making in the village, there is no oven or airfryer. Only a Russian stove, tiles and a dryer.
Here is Ivan tea, for sure, not spoiled, it turned out good (not all, part of it was either underexposed or overexposed while I was studying on it).

Borisyonokwhat a real Shrovetide you have! very cool! Several years ago in the village we also burned Maslenitsa, very colorful and pagan

[Mary Poppins]

Mary Poppins, got it. I overlooked the frying pan ... Then the layer should just be smaller. And finally, soon new leaves will grow, you just need to experiment. Sometimes it turns out to be something unusual and interesting. And about the fact that from different varieties of the same culture completely different tea is obtained, that's for sure. She herself went through this on the example of apple and raspberry. Cherry in the village does not bear fruit, and the leaves from all trees have the same taste and aroma. And very strong and recognizable in any combination and proportion. So that the flag is in your hands (and we too!), And a successful season!
By the way, in AG I withstood slightly different temperatures, first 120-150, and then 80, except for currants, the rate is lower there. And at low fan speed. And everything worked out ...

[paramed1]

paramed1, Yes! we will continue to experiment! ))
Only I have one sadness - the neighbor's garden, which served as my main source of leaves of fruit trees, is no longer in such accessibility - it was bought and the new owners are no longer as indifferent to the garden as the previous ones.
But a huge plus - I have significant experience and this summer I am fully armed)) And I will have time to prepare fireweed not like last year. I have been in the subject only since the middle of summer, I managed to collect a little before flowering

[Mary Poppins]

Mary Poppins, try on a thick-walled frying pan, that's the only way I dry, although I seem to have everything, first the pace. high, then I turn it down and stir constantly with my hands, I like to feel the tea in a tactile way.

soon new leaves will grow,

eh, not soon yet .. here Lena-Kubanochka has +8 tomorrow, although I'm crying, we also have +3 for the second week

[Galina Iv.]

Galina Iv., I fry in a thick-walled form for the stove / oven - it seems to be cast-iron with a ceramic inner coating - heavy, infection)) But after frying I pour it into the dryer in a thin layer. Because you need to fry the next portion.
Here, during the roasting process, I have a little violation of the technology - I often apply a thicker layer and, probably, I have it steamed.

[Mary Poppins]

Mary Poppins, I also will not say that I have a thin layer, but I do not leave, but I stir constantly, carefully, so as not to burn myself and, as it were, I rake the raw materials to the edges of the pan, it dries faster, but I do not go far, in a minute I will turn everything over again the aroma will go fabulous, and I keep stirring and stirring. I note that I did 90% sheet.
Yes, the first year gave us a lot, as we have already tried everything on ourselves and our friends and made clear conclusions - what we like best - medium, weak or prolonged fermentation and from which leaves we liked the most.

And we know for sure that our tea is never too much

our tea never happens

Galina, that's for sure ... yesterday I "treated" my friend with me ... I looked - but I practically didn't have Ivanushka ...
And I thought that it would be enough for me for two years.

[Mary Poppins]

Here, during the roasting process, I have a little violation of the technology - I often apply a thicker layer and, probably, I have it steamed.

Mary Poppins, yes, this moment is not suitable for tea - it is steamed, losing its aroma. Well, Checkmark has already explained everything.

I have 90% granulated, because I have already caught a little Ivan-tea, I made everything from the leaves of trees, and they do not lend themselves well to their hands in their pure form. I remember that you make a lot of leaves in sweep with fireweed), then you get juice and fermentation.
And I don't really like the leaf because of its low strength and blackness)) Now I add granulated to the leaf, it turns out both beautiful and tasty)
Somehow I re-fermented the leaf and overcooked it - it looks like it's impossible to distinguish from black ordinary leaf tea - it's also black) only the taste is different

When I fry, I don't leave the process at all - I constantly stir with a spatula, as if turning the tea.

Eh, I should know what's the matter - in my hands or in cherries too cultured

Lyudmila, now at least I will know these moments.

Borisenok, I also often pour tea with me to the guests))

I would not say that my willow tea is of an unsaturated color, I made almost everything strongly fermented.
in the next. season, you need to try different fermentation, do not mix and write everything down, including when collected, through the freezer or dried ..
how many options !!!

[Mary Poppins]

Eh, I should know what's the matter - in my hands or in cherries too cultured

Mary Poppins, not in pens ... I know exactly what the matter is! You just need an oven. I tried to dry tea in a frying pan. I'm not very good. it turned out - part is dry already, and part is damp. Galya got used to it. And the oven is simple. So ask you to present the simplest oven for March 8th. Only so that there was top-bottom and the temperature was regulated. I have a Russian cheap desktop mini oven. I am very pleased with her. I can't imagine how to make tea without an oven ...

in, in, another option I will have is to dry in the oven