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

[Radushka]

I made this out of it at the end of May. Delicious, by the way, turned out.

Radushka, and was silent? Well, you give it .... Or did you confuse it with fireweed? But I haven’t seen such grass here ...

[lappl1]

lappl1, not confused. I wrote all the time - "if it turns out that it is fireweed." They just sent me a real one. When you hold it in your hands, you immediately see the differences. My weed grows next to the river, by the way. Not quite on the shore, the shore is covered with sand, and about ten meters under the canopy of the forest belt.
It rains downpour every day. I can't get out there to see the flowers!
And the downpours were such that all my hydrangeas were broken and cherries were beaten. I collect raspberries completely wet.

Has anyone made tea from feijoa leaves?

[Yulia]

Yulia,

Has anyone made tea from feijoa leaves?

Laughing ... Not. I only did "vitamin".

[Radushka]

I wrote all the time - "if it turns out that it is fireweed."

Radushka, now I remember. Well, you have to grow Ivan tea yourself.

Has anyone made tea from feijoa leaves?

YuLi, no one wrote about him. Now I looked at the composition. A very useful scent, but apparently not ours. There are no tannins at all. But a lot of iodine. How will this affect the tea? Try it if you want, then tell us.

[lappl1]

lappl1,

you will have to grow Ivan tea yourself

this, if any. Well, in the meantime, I will translate raspberries into teas

[Radushka]

Radushka, take it, do not hesitate. he is very tenacious. Well, raspberries are a great option.

Girls, what a heavy spirit the fireweed has when scrolling through a meat grinder. Raw herbs, fish and whatnot. Already my head hurts (besides, my sense of smell is thin) ...

[Nata]

Natamaybe you haven't withered it enough? I never smelled like fish. And the herbal smell is not at all aggressive.

[lappl1]

lappl1,

I have no idea))). I'm not special. For a day and a half I dragged around with him tody-syudy)). Maybe the truth was overwhelming ...

For a day and a half I dragged around with him tody-syudy)).

No ... During this time I should have wilted. I have now dried for 12 hours. Well, ferment and catch a pleasant fruity-floral smell.

[about]

I started a notebook. I describe everything.
First wrote abouttrial No. 1 (peach), No. 2 (oregano)... Now I decided to replace it with tea number 3, etc.
So, tea No. 3 from dried oregano with lemon balm (a lemon balm bush was broken in the garden, I felt sorry, added, although she was not going to)

You know, this part of the recipe, perhaps, I will also correct by adding wilting for herbs. In general, it is better to dry everything.

Twisted in a meat grinder, Then everything is according to the recipe.
Conclusion: the view is better, the granules are even. It is clearly necessary to wither the herbs. Brewed - lemon balm added freshness.
Tea No. 4 - Cherries, blackberries, grapes, mulberries.
Withered, frozen, twisted. With the twisting of the problem - the granules did not work out, twisted and frozen and thawed leaves, everything was crumpled, constant reverses. I made rolls, cut them. I mixed everything together.
Fermentation worked for 9 hours. When I opened it, my daughter said she smelled like freshly squeezed cherry juice in the house.
Dried at 150 * 15min, then at 100 * 50min and at 60 * 20min.
Of course I did it. The taste is pleasant with a slight sourness.
Conclusion: the appearance is not comme il faut. And granules and slicing, and petioles. Probably I will give up the meat grinder. I will twist and cut. I'll look further. Winter will show.
The next in turn is the mono cherry ...

Hey everyone! look at the photo pliz. If I'm not mistaken, I found a quince. I hope this is her, and if this is so, is such a variety suitable for our seagull? or maybe something special is needed :))

Good day to all! Against all odds, I made tea from peony leaves. Dried, twisted in a meat grinder, dried. Dried tea smells like flowers, and brewed tea has a tart taste (no bitterness, as predicted).
I just can't find an article in the internet about such tea, they have been drinking it in Siberia, in Altai since ancient times.
For myself, I decided to fry it next time, then dry it in a dryer.

How do I insert a photo? The disk did not work through Yandex ...

[Vasyutka]

Vasyutka, Nataliya,

I will probably give up the meat grinder

and what kind of meat grinder? Manual or electric? My hand also went on strike. And the electric one twists everything perfectly. You just need to get used to it.

[LAKATA]

LAKATA, Larissa,

Against all odds, made tea from peony leaves

And what was the peony? Ordinary garden? Are the flowers fragrant or not?

How do I insert a photo? The disk did not work through Yandex ...

I inserted through the radical 🔗

Natasha (I think) wrote about the fact that you can make tea with dried berries (fruits, in particular with dried raspberries), but how to dry raspberries?

Yesterday I went (with upset feelings that I don't have fireweed) to a friend and picked up leaves: raspberries, strawberries, garden blackberries (not prickly) and some black currants. Now they are drying with me ... I have doubts about the currant ... the currant itself is black, long fruits, and its leaves are curly. It seems to me that this is not the best version of currant, it is not fragrant. But in my photo you can see my currant, which grows in my front garden under the balconies, it is round and very fragrant. And her leaves are not so curly, but much smoother. It seems to me that these leaves in tea will be more aromatic. But my bush is still small ... (my husband mercilessly cut off in the spring ...), now there are some berries (large, large!), As I collect them, I will put all the leaves for tea!
Yesterday I was treated to raspberries, so I blended 1: 2 with sugar in the refrigerator!
There are some more raspberries, today I will put cherries on drying and I would like to dry raspberries at the same time, but I don't know how to dry them properly yet ...

When we were driving for leaves, on the way I saw: tansy, chicory, yarrow and many, many other different interesting plants!

[LAKATA]

LAKATA, Larissa, And what was the peony? Ordinary gardening? Are the flowers fragrant or not?

The peony was an ordinary garden one, a twig from pink, a twig from white. I did a little to try.
I liked the idea above - I don't like tea, rinse my hair.

I have a large bush of Kuril tea. I read that very decent tea is obtained from the leaves, like Indian tea. I will try.

Thanks for the tip, photo of peony leaf tea.

Good morning!
I'm talking about my new tea. I got up on Tuesday morning, looked into the refrigerator, and there was a handful of berries in a bowl, had a snack of champagne the other day))). And there are raspberries, cherries and peaches in this bowl. Well, I used the peach for its intended purpose), and decided to put everything else into tea, since for a long time I was haunted by the idea of ​​making tea with fresh fruit ...



I took out a bag with currant and pear leaves from the freezer



In a meat grinder, I first twisted the berries, the seeds from the cherries were of course removed, and on top of the scrolled berries I twisted frozen leaves.



Then she scrolled the resulting mass again, took it with a spoon so that both granules and scrolled berries fell. We got these wet granules

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Then she took out another bag with leaves from the freezer, so it turned out to be a wild pear, an apple tree and a little fireweed. Scrolled the leaves in a meat grinder



Here in this photo on the left there are granules with berries, on the right are simple granules from leaves



Mixed two kinds of granules



And she played it again in a meat grinder



The granules turned out to be excellent, strong, keep their shape and do not fall apart. I sent it to a slow cooker for fermentation for 5 hours, then to the oven.Here's a tea after the oven



But I have already brewed it today, put 1 teaspoon on a glass, excellent amber color

According to the aroma, in a dry form, it has a raspberry-pear aroma, in a brewed form, it tastes sour, like that of karkade, what it smells like until I can’t smell it). But it smells delicious. I think that over time it will reveal its potential even more. She took 0.5 kilos of leaves, plus about 0.5 kilos. The berries were 0.250-0.300 grams. Tea turned out to be about 0.300 grams (by eye), did not weigh. Next time I'll do it with cherries and black currants (separately).

I looked into the freezer now, they lie in a bag of orange peels, I will also need to scroll into some tea)))

Natasha! What a beauty! Very nice and probably very tasty!

[Vasyutka]

I started a notebook. I describe everything.

Vasyutka, Nataliya, great approach to business! Well done! This is how you should make tea - write down all the nuances, and then draw conclusions for yourself which tea is better. And we should show these conclusions. useful to all.

the appearance is not comme il faut. Both pellets and slices and petioles. Probably I will give up the meat grinder. I will twist and cut. I'll look further. Winter will show.

Natasha, Radushka is right - it's hard to make tea using a manual meat grinder. Electric is a good way out.

Against all odds, I made tea from peony leaves. Dried, twisted in a meat grinder, dried. Dried tea smells like flowers, and brewed tea has a tart taste (no bitterness, as predicted).

LAKATA, we are not prophets, but practitioners. It's just that we have enough raw materials that are more predictable in every sense to make tea from everything. And it does not taste bitter because fermentation and drying at high temperatures changed the properties. I wrote about this in the recipe. I am very glad for you that you have succeeded.

Girls, do not insert photos through third-party resources... After a while, your photos will disappear. It's much simpler. Go to your profile on our website and through the gallery, following the prompts, insert as many photos as you want. They will remain forever.

Yes, delicious!) I like it! And since I drink tea only without sugar, this berry sourness in tea gives it a special piquancy, I am pleased to drink it. Let's see how tea shows itself in a month. I packed it in a container and put it in a cabinet.

[Natusichka]

Natusichka, that currant, which is oblong and the leaves are small and curly - this is either southern currant, or yoshta, a hybrid of currants and gooseberries. Most likely, the first thing, we had such a garden in Moldova. There will be no tea from it, there will be no currant smell. If only in some other add for volume.
But in no case should you pick off all the leaves from the bush, especially if it is still young, you must leave 30 percent. And do not damage the growth buds that are near the leaves. You'd better cut off only the leaf blades with scissors, leave the legs on the branches, they will fall off themselves.

[Natalia Koval]

I'm talking about my new tea.

Natalia Koval, Natasha, I'm just delighted: yahoo: from the description of the process, photos and, of course, the type of granules. You are so accessible and described in detail that you can make the same tea with your eyes closed. What granules! Do not take your eyes off. Your experience is very useful to all of us. Thank you very much for the experiment! You are smart! I am pleased to give a link to your post on the first page.

But I, apparently, did not complete the process. One twisting, in my case, was clearly not enough. Therefore, my tea with berries did not work out.

[lappl1]

lappl1, Thanks for the kind words! And the experiment - so we have this shoe polish ..... !!!)))) This is me about leaves and berries)))) I will come up with something else, while there is a possibility.

Girls, I have a lot of medicinal plants in my garden, including willow tea and loosestrife. Indeed, at first glance, they are similar.
But this is only at first glance, they have a completely different arrangement of flowers; the stem is different - in the willow-herb it is smooth, round, and in the loosestrife it is hexagonal, rough; the leaves of both are lanceolate, but the loosestrife is rough, sweet and somewhat slimy in taste, and the ivan tea is smooth, well, I won't write about the taste, you all already know
At very high air humidity, dew, water droplets roll down the leaves of the loosestrife, hence its other name - plakun-grass.They say that in the old days, loosestrife (one of the names is oak tree) was used for tanning leather, so it should be good for tea!

[lappl1]

lappl1, Thanks for the kind words! And the experiment - so we have this shoe polish ..... !!!)))) This is me about leaves and berries)))) I will come up with something else, while there is a possibility.

Natasha, how great! Experiment and share your results with us!

And why did you come to us for so long?

[YaTatiana]

YaTatiana, Tatyana, thank you very much for describing the differences. Described very clearly and easily!

To your health!

[Natusichka]

When we were driving for leaves, on the way I saw: tansy, chicory, yarrow and many, many other different interesting plants!

Natusichka, these plants are really cool ... But they are medicinal and it is better to harvest them like medicinal herbs are harvested for certain purposes. During fermentation, they will change their properties. They are also bitter. It will hardly be tasty.

I have a large bush of Kuril tea. I read that the leaves make very decent tea, like Indian tea. I will try.

LAKATA, Larissa, but this is a very correct flavor for tea. Last year we did, but not much. ... It's definitely worth doing. But you have to work hard, since the leaves are very small.

[Radushka]

Radushka, will have to buy an electric one.

[Lyudochka!]

these plants are really cool ... But they are medicinal and it is better to harvest them like medicinal herbs are harvested for certain purposes. During fermentation, they will change their properties. They are also bitter. It will hardly be tasty.

Lyudochka!No, I'm not going to use them for tea! I wrote this to the fact that there are so many useful things around us, you just need to know! I just haven't finished my thought.

Natasha! How wonderful you described everything! I already wanted to make this tea! Doesn't the berry juice burn during the frying process in the oven?

Sent to a slow cooker for fermentation for 5 hours

Natasha, please, this moment in more detail ... What is your multicooker? What program did you ferment on? Which layer?

They say that in the old days, loosestrife (one of the names is oak tree) was used for tanning leather, so it should be good for tea!

Tanyusha, Thank you very much for describing this plant in such detail! And that you so want to help me in making tea (even if not Ivan-tea!).

Lyudochka! In my opinion your topic is the most popular now !!! Thank you so much for organizing us on this topic! This is not just communication and advice! This is SOMETHING MORE !!! This is some kind of sacrament!

[Natusichka]

Natusichka, Natasha, the juice did not burn in the oven, it smelled of raspberry jam during drying. Multicooker Redmont M90, Yogurt program, layer 5-6 centimeters.

So, the "yogurt" program, what's the temperature there? I have a Panasonic cartoon, will the heating program work?

Thank you so much for organizing us on this topic! This is not just communication and advice! This is SOMETHING MORE !!! This is some kind of sacrament!

To your health, Natusichka! I am very glad that you enjoy the process of making tea and communication on tea topics.

[Natusichka]

Natusichka, no, in no case will work. In Panas Podogrev - 70. There are generally no 38-40. Panas is the 18th, right? Friends have this, they sculpt porridge and pastries there, and yogurt in a yogurt maker. I'm afraid your cartoon is not your help in this matter ...

And if you warm up a little while heating, then put a layer, and then turn off and close the lid ?!
I put the dough "fit" like that ...

[Natusichka]

Natusichka, that's why you are looking for problems for yourself? You are warm now. It will ferment great at room temperature. or wrap a saucepan with plaid jackets. Everything will turn out great.

[Natusichka]

Natusichka, you have written everything correctly about the Heating program, there is a very high temperature. In mine, I measured the temperature on the program Yoghurt-thermometer showed 30C.I use cartoons, because it is convenient for me and everything has been worked out in time). I put it, turned it on, forgot it, squeaked the cartoon, took it out, into the oven. I use cartoon for everything, and I cook, and I ferment tea, and I make fermented baked milk with baked milk ...
What's your temperature in the yogurt maker?

[Natusichka]

Natusichka, experiments can lead to spoilage of raw materials. Don't rack your brains, it's summer outside, it's warm, fermentation will go well without the help of technology. Natalia has measured everything, worked out on a specific model.

[Vasyutka]

Vasyutka,

will have to buy an electric

Yes. I bought it and don't regret it a bit. Summer-autumn is ahead. You can cook so much yummy! Leafy, of course, beautiful. Only it takes up a lot of space.

Girls, I found interesting information about Mate Carnival tea in the internet.
Mate Carnival Roasted Paraguayan mate tea, complemented by rooibos, cocoa beans, sunflower petals, almonds, prickly pear flowers (a type of cactus) and cornflower petals. When brewed, we get a wonderful drink with a spicy caramel aroma. Mate (Paraguayan tea) is a drink that is obtained from the dry leaves of the evergreen tropical plant, holly broadleaf. Of all the things described, I liked the use of sunflower leaves, cocoa beans and almonds in the tea. I wonder if all these ingredients are scrolled along with fireweed? As soon as I find a blooming sunflower, I will try. Ostap is called)))))))

[Natasha]

Natasha, we added sunflower only in the form of petals to tea. And to twist - did not twist. And the rest, of course, can be found if desired. And experiments can and should be done.
We will wait for the results of this experiment as well.
We sow sunflowers in the village on potatoes. do not bloom yet. And you should already bloom, so look.
By the way, my doctor prescribed mate tea for me once. Very tasty, what's true is true ...

And today we got some linden. And 7 kg of fireweed ... I got hot in bags until they got home; one package was poured into a basin for cooling.

Recently I went to the forest for cloudberries. I picked up the berries. Then she picked up more leaves. I dried the leaves and put them in the freezer. When twisting the leaves in the hand and when withering, the smell was pleasant, reminiscent of raspberry leaves. There are few leaves for a separate tea, I will do it in a mixed with fireweed and an apple tree.

The dried leaves are used for medicinal purposes, mainly for the urinary tract, and also as an antimicrobial agent. But in dried form, perhaps, I will not leave.

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