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

maybe run wild, in an abandoned garden

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[natushka]

natushkaWe didn't have summer anyway, but today the rain has charged again, the wind is blowing - all the last leaves will fall off. You should at least pick up more raspberries while you eat

[Lyoshka]

Lyoshka, thanks for the congratulations on the holiday!

[francevna]

francevna, My grandparents were teachers, two aunts, my mother worked a little at school, then she was engaged in those. training workers at the factory, and also an aunt librarian. This is not even considering that the brothers' wives are also to some extent teachers! More or less like this!!!

And my holiday too. I am a master of practical training in driving a car (instructor).

Girls, for the first time I decided to make a tea. I have frozen leaves: pear + blackberry, apricot, cherry, peach + some grapes (the smell is stunned!), Peach, quince, h. Currant + raspberry, tomorrow I'll pick strawberries. Please advise what to mix with. I'm already in doubt. Mixes take up less space. Peach has a very rich smell, will interrupt.

Half of the listed names do not grow in our country, so I don’t know about the peach, but maybe the cherry will kill everything. Marina, if there are a lot of leaves, then try to make mono, or rustic. Mincing teas do not take up much space. Mix black currants with something - strawberries, pear, otherwise it will crumble in a meat grinder.

At the dacha, I also want to pick leaves of a walnut, a mulberry tree.

[akvamarin171]

akvamarin171, Marina, Mulberry tea makes good tea. But I didn't do it from a walnut, look at page 1, maybe there is a link to a walnut.

[akvamarin171]

Please advise what to mix with.

akvamarin171, Marina, welcome to tea themes.
You know, I don't even know what to advise you - so many plants have been listed. But I know one thing - the more plants in tea, the tastier it turns out. Of all the above, cherry is a special flavor. She even in small quantities "pulls the blanket over herself." Therefore, it can "hammer" the taste of all tea with itself. But I love her very much, so this is not a hindrance to me. And you decide for yourself. You can remove the cherry and make it mono. Or you can do it all together. It will still be delicious.

[akvamarin171]

At the dacha, I also want to pick leaves of a walnut, a mulberry tree.

akvamarin171, Marina, although I do not have a walnut, but I do not advise you to make tea from it. Walnut leaves are not even advised to be put as mulch. They are high in protein. I'm afraid they'll give off a fishy smell as a result of fermentation. And yet - the leaves contain iodine and juglone (the strongest phytoncidal substance). They can interfere with fermentation.
And in general, in order to understand at the stage of choosing plants for tea whether you like tea from them or not, conduct a test (link at the end of the recipe - read how to do it). If you find the smell of the leaves in the bag tasty, try making tea. But you already have so many leaves of different plants to waste time on things that are theoretically unsuitable for tea.

[Lyoshka]

Girls who are Teachers, I congratulate everyone on their professional holiday!

Lyoshka, Thank you !
I also join in the congratulations! Happy Holidays to all those who teach! May your students make you happy!

Lyudochka, I decided to go into the topic, and on TV a program began about Alma-Ata, that's a coincidence.

Marusyaayayayayaya, urgently make apricot tea for me this is a favorite of all teas and preferably leaf.This year I tried granular, while in comparison with sheet I lost completely. And the sheet is thin, even with double scrolling through a meat grinder - the granules crumbled, not strong, a lot of dust. And when brewing, I lost in comparison, if a freshly dried leaf was brewed, it turns out light tea (green) with a sooo-thin aroma of dried apricots, and freshly dried granulated, it turned out dark in color, and tasted like the taste of a medicinal herb from a pharmacy. But I give him a chance, maybe he will come to his senses.
You have to draw your own conclusions, and for this you have to try in different ways.

Oh, this fish-fish and how many it can turn away from tea made from apricot leaves.

Lyudochka, I decided to go into the topic, and on TV the program began about Alma-Ata, here is a coincidence

Vikulya, this is not a coincidence, it's just that we are now on the same wavelength ...

Oh, this fish-fish and how many it can turn away from tea made from apricot leaves.

Vikulya, fish can be in any tea. The main thing is to interrupt fermentation in time and dry the tea well. then he is not afraid of any fish.

Good evening! Today I picked up blackberry leaves, already reddened, rough. The electric meat grinder did not pull! And in the freezer there is no room for this bag, alas, everything is stuffed with berries, mushrooms. In a food processor, I chopped all the leaves with a utility knife for ten minutes. At the exit - a wet, sticky mass with a bitter, almond aroma. I put it on fermentation, I think, shouldn't the granules be fermented for a longer time or less than the granules? The shape of the tea leaves is not really important to me, I will mix it. Has someone already processed leaves in a combine? as a result?

[svetn]

svetnThe girls had the experience of handling leaves in a combine. The reviews were better from the grinder tea. But if your mass is sticky and wet, then, in principle, the tea should turn out good. And the smell should tell about the time of fermentation. Once strong and tasty appears, then stop fermenting. But, I think that it is not necessary to ferment for a long time - 6 - 8 hours is enough.

In general, while she was picking up the nut leaves, the smell was already very cloying. In the toilet instead of a freshener just right. A little, washed, hanging in a pillowcase - dried. Tomorrow I'll see what to do with them. There is no more room in the freezer. Today I wanted to do it, it didn't work out. And tomorrow I'm sitting with my granddaughter. I also have mint, varieties 5. Dried lemon balm, chill and pepper. I want to mix with something again. I mean fresh.

[akvamarin171]

akvamarin171, mint does not need to be fermented, just twist and dry, see page 1.

[akvamarin171]

akvamarin171, Marina, dry the mint separately, you can just use the leaves. I keep it separately, and when brewing I add it to the teapot to the tea mixtures.

[francevna]

francevna, I did so.

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, so I won't, thanks.

[Vika]

Marusyaayayayayaya, urgently make apricot tea for me, this is a favorite of all teas and preferably leaf teas.

Vika, has already collected the leaves, while they are in the freezer. Thanks for the advice, I'll try to make a leaf, I also like the taste of dried apricots. The main thing for me now is to do everything right so that without the "fish" it will work

"Accidentally" picked 4 lots of mulberry leaves tea. Now I am suffering. WHAT WAYS to make tea? Well, I will soar for one batch, this is a must (I think in a cartoon simmer at 60 hours 12). And the rest? One should probably be familiar (wither-freeze ...) and twist? cut? And two more? Who will have any wishes? I have never tried mulberry. And this would not have happened, but it was necessary to visit the silk station, but they no longer feed their worms. Allowed to walk around the landing.

[Radushka]

Radushka, but the parties are big

[Alla]

Alla, I do not do less than 800 grams. And so ... kilo-kilo 300. So that immediately a pound of ready-made.

I have a sheet last year, this year I did a mono granular, there is a little in a rustic one. I did it as expected, wither and freeze.

[Alla]

Alla, granulates well? And which is tastier from mono? I don’t want to interfere. I need it for business.If it doesn't work out tasty, then I'll flavor it with something.

[Radushka]

Radushka, leafy is more fragrant. But as mono tea, I don’t drink, once the pressure dropped sharply after tea, now I drink only in a mixture.

[Alla]

Alla, well, everywhere they write that mulberry is both hypotensive and hypoglycemic and soothing nerves. Zechariah stewed in the form of green tea interested me. I love green tea (I loved it BEFORE ...). Probably, in addition to stewed, I will still make a sheet after freezing, granulated after freezing and repeatedly frozen-thawed.
However, I do not know what will happen with the scent. The leaves are from varieties bred specifically for feeding the silkworm. Although ... I'm no longer very different from him. (everyone says)

[Radushka]

Radushka, yes, we are all marching these ... silkworms

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa,

Girls, I have 2 bags of Loch leaves in my freezer, and now I will put wild pear leaves in the freezer (there is a little less) Tomorrow, according to the plan, I will devote the day to picking garden leaves. They promise a cold snap, we need to make a reserve for cold days.
Advise how best to make the leaves of sucker and pear? Is it worth combining them into one tea or making separate mixtures? I will turn everything in a meat grinder, I have not done a sheet one yet.
And I also noticed that as I drink my tea at night, I sleep badly. But I kept thinking (and hoping) that this was not tea. But now my husband began to complain that he did not sleep for half a night. I don’t even know what to think .. no one watched this? Recently, while brewing tea in a thermos, I began to add a pinch of thyme or mint there. But my husband's last complaint worries me, I see that he didn't even drink my tea last night, but brewed a shop bag.

[nila]

nila, Nelya, wait for who made and drank their tea last year. They will tell and advise how to drink.

[Nelya]

Nelya, thyme helps with insomnia. And mint generally puts me to sleep. I don’t think it’s from them.

[nila]

nila, Nelya, and what kind of tea you drink at night.
I'm allergic to thyme. They gave me such tea at a party without warning, I could not leave for a month and a half.

[nila]

nila, nila, Nelya, I was not impressed by the goof-mono. And it doesn't granulate. I think it will be great with a pear. True, the pear has its own rather strong taste and aroma. Probably the sucker will crush. I would do a mix.

[Nelya]

And I forgot to write about the sucker.
Nelya, make goof separately if you like green tea. It has its own aroma and the pear gives a strong aroma. I would not mix them.
How many people, so many opinions.
LOCH I have a sheet.

[Alla]

Alla,

How many people, so many opinions.

That's for sure! And until you do it yourself and try it, you will not know whether you like it or not!

[Nelya]

Nelya, an incomprehensible story ... In tea from garden plants there is no so-called tea caffeine - theine, which has a stimulating effect. Of course, each organism can perceive some kind of grass or garden plant in its own way. After what kind of tea is this effect? If after any, then maybe it's just self-hypnosis, which, by the way, men often suffer from ...

And I also noticed that as I drink my tea at night, I sleep badly. But I kept thinking (and hoping) that

There is such a thing, Nellie, my spouse and I also noticed (not Ivanushka), but he was completely sick, he is already old ... For a couple of weeks now he has only been drinking in the store. And here is the son, he loves, but he is young, health like a bull. They drank it a lot. We love to have some tea. It seems that the fees were changed, but all the same .... probably you need to drink it more sparingly, someone wrote about it here .. I remember.

And my usual spouse never drank at night. Not even at night, but after 18. I could not sleep. And MY tea drinks and rejoices.

[Nelya]

Nelya, I mix sucker with pear, though I also add an apple tree and raspberries or strawberries there. Since the sucker has little taste, but it gives a pleasant astringency. I do everything according to Zakhar. Now about the dream. Very unlikely from our tea. But you can add mint, lemon balm, rosemary. If fresh, then any or a mixture of them.Or you can just 2 drops of essential oil directly into the brewed tea.

[Radushka]

Radushka, I really like mulberry tea.
I made granulated, and with freezing and without - I did not notice the difference. But I don't have granules ... like small-leaf tea. I don't bother about this. But there is a smell and taste!
Today another batch of narwhal leaves, fortunately, there is a lot of this stuff in the area. I washed it (they were very dirty), tomorrow I will twist.

And I also noticed that as I drink my tea at night, I sleep badly. But I kept thinking (and hoping) that this was not tea. But now my husband began to complain that he did not sleep for half the night. I don’t even know what to think .. no one observed this? Recently, while brewing tea in a thermos, I began to add a pinch of thyme or mint there. But my husband's last complaint worries me, I see that he didn't even drink my tea last night, but brewed a shop bag.

Nelya, I also had insomnia after tea, but that was at the beginning of summer, when I just started making tea. And someone told me that such a reaction happens to unseasoned tea. Now I drink matured, everything is fine with sleep. Maybe you and your husband react that way?

Girls, thanks for the answers. I just went into the house and read everything.
Yes, I noticed for a long time how I drink my tea right before bedtime, and I can stay awake for half a night. That is why I began to pour a little thyme or washed into a thermos.
We are used to tea always before going to bed. Previously, I made mixtures - I added thyme, mint, lavender and other herbs to the store brew (usually mixed several varieties and also green). I didn't know about rosemary, for some reason I didn't think that it could be added to tea. And usually everyone said that from my teas they fall asleep.
And then I encountered insomnia after tea from leaves. But I was silent and did not say anything to my husband that maybe he began to sleep badly after my tea, he had already made this conclusion himself.
And moreover, I usually drink strong, as I brewed it in a thermos, and I don't drink it. I can even have a couple of cups, my husband drinks it like tea leaves, diluting it with boiling water.
But I can also associate insomnia with nerves ... suffered a lot this year, and even my husband's strokes ...
I'll look further, but I don't want to give up the tea.
Linochka, which essential oil is better to buy and drip into tea?
About mulberry ... we have a lot of it, but I haven't made a single tea from it yet, I didn't even pay attention to it, I thought it was nothing.
We need to pick a bag tomorrow.
I will try to mix sucker and pear, strawberries, raspberries, there is still an apple tree, there are a lot of apricots. You can pick up black currants a little, but there are 2 bushes already almost naked.
They promise the coming days of freezing in the soil, because it is necessary to hurry up to stock up on raw materials.

[Hope]

Hope, now I'm just brewing June tea. All my teas are prefabricated, usually 5-6 types of different leaves. All the teas after the meat grinder, one made only leaf, then I was too lazy to twist cigars.

[s_vet_lanochka]

s_vet_lanochkaYes, this year we have an awful lot of dust! There was no rain for more than two months.
I would make a sheet. But, there is already no storage space, and the sheet, in general, requires a lot of space. And try hunting now. This season, only apricot did not. And then, only because there is no high-quality apricot in the village, and in the city there is no desire to pick. Even try it.

[Radushka]

Radushka, we are the same ... all summer one rain, in mid-July and that's it ...
The leaves are all covered with a layer of dust, you have to wash in 3 waters, and there are strawberries in general. On it, cats really like to get out, both their own and others from all over the area.

and which essential oil is better to buy and drip into tea?

I can write in descending order: rosemary, lemon balm, mint, lavender. All from the same Yasnotkov family contain similar substances that have a calming and antidepressant effect. Sometimes patients used rosemary for 10-14 days in tea, so others thought that they went on vacation, so people were rested afterwards.

the Yasnotkov family

I have not heard such clever words
So you need to ask for rosemary, everything else is in dry form.
And what is the best effect from dried or in essential oil? Essential oil is probably more effective