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

Why didn’t you ever treat me to apricot tea, huh, Lina? And this is in the thickets ...

And this is in the thickets ...

Len, this is a joke, I haven't even tried it. I was just surprised that they sent you an apricot from Moscow. Grapes are found, but apricots are not.

So, otchetik on one of the "foreign" teas, apricot + cherry + grapes, fillers: jasmine flowers, calendula, fruits: cherries and hawthorn.
1 brew: transparent, light brown color, immediately the smell of calendula color, the taste of cherry pits is immediately recognizable.
2 brew, let it brew: sourness in tea, cherry drowned out calendula, floral aroma (jasmine?), Slightly astringent aftertaste on the palate. The taste of compote (?), Already sweet! Aromatic and tasty! Very unusual and unfamiliar ... after all, I don't even know most of the stench. I can imagine how it is fortified, the berries are whole! And anti-inflammatory! Sheer benefit!
The bottom line is that I would definitely make such tea!
Thanks to the author for the pleasure!

flooded for the third time! Floral smell!

Ira, at what ambient temperature was the fermentation? Or did you wrap it up somehow?
My leaves are stuck in the freezer too ... only I don't remember which ones anymore ... Yes, what's the difference. It will still be delicious! If only the fermentation does not screw up.

She did not wrap her up with anything. Room temperature. Only for some reason it fermented longer than summer.
But aooooomaaaat !!!

These teas are always more aromatic than summer teas.

We have apricots, grapes and other fruit trees. But, alas, no .... CYPRUS. I can't even imagine what a furry looks like. : plach7: And without him like a collection of gulls and not a collection. The most important tea is not.

Well, and we do not have the above-mentioned sorts, so bash on bash! But Ivanushka is all mine, not even discussed.
Irin, we didn’t accept parcels for you, I don’t know now. I sent it to Krasnodar.

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, I would like to hope that soon it will be as before, as always. In our streets, mostly only fruit trees grow. Imagine how much raw material. But ... the story is also typical. Everyone loves to treat themselves, accept a present with pleasure and wave their hands when I start to tell the technology. I already gave myself a vow - do yourself and keep quiet.

[iriska3420]

I already gave myself a vow - do yourself and keep quiet

iriska3420, Irina, me too And about tea, and about bread The people around do not understand ...

Today I made tea from the leaves collected in late autumn when they have already begun to crumble (strawberries, raspberries, curry, pear, apple, plum, cherry, ziziphus and lemongrass). They lay in the freeze since October, they twisted it yesterday and fermented it until the morning today and dried it. This is just a fairy tale and not tea. In the summer, I began to collect and dry various flowers and collected those similar to Ivan tea - tell me how it smells (I have perfume)?

Ivanushka is everything

[fox]

Well, after all, the smell of perfume is different ... Ivanushka's flowers smell like honey, the sun, summer ...
Congratulations,fox, with new tea!
In our tea, too, not all flowers go: calendula, marigolds, annual dahlias, phloxes, jasmine, rose petals ... leaf through the topic of Ivan tea, they write there, which ones are possible, which in no case should be.

I also made the last leaves about two weeks ago. Made Vishnevoy and Raspberry Vanechka. The tea is superb. Even after a short dry fermentation, the smell, color and taste exceeded my expectations.Now I am very sorry that I was too lazy to collect more leaves in the winter.

Now I am very sorry that I was too lazy to collect more leaves in the winter.

But this is an experience! And it is already obvious what will need to be done in the fall (mow the leaves in the same way as we mow them in the summer)
I collected leaves in the fall only thanks to reviews. I froze and wanted to go home, but I consoled myself with the thought of fragrant tea ...

And it is already obvious what will have to be done in the fall

Yes, everything is like everyone else's ... I collect and make one, but they all want to drink at a party and take with them. And everyone asks, did I make a new one there?
Has already begun to "filter to go",

Already started "filtering to take away"

Flax, and rightly so! You won't be enough for everyone ... (I'm greedy for tea ...)
Then those who wish will run to the store, as the tea ends, but we have something to do without our yummy We don't drink at the store anymore

We don't drink at all at the store

My husband and I no longer understand the shop. And with enviable regularity, I suggest to relatives and guests to at least go with me to collect raw materials ... but everyone has no time, they come to rest, but "you are here all the time ...". It is not difficult to collect Ivan tea, but leaves from fruit and especially forest ones, such as strawberries, are dreary. And the neighbors generally look at her as insane.

And the neighbors generally look at her as insane

Yeah. I, too, run after the leaves. Well this is a whole process!
And how to drink ... so all do not mind!

Well this is a whole process!

I really like this process, sometimes I go to the forest and fields for several hours. Then you come ... while you look at the leaves, while you spread them out ... such satisfaction ...
And we have to do a lot for our own ... for four families. Yes, and sometimes I want to treat myself to something new. This year I have done little from the garden ones, mostly clean and a little Fuzzy.

And you have to do a lot for your own ... for four families

Whoa! We need factory scale!
And I have prepared very little Ivan-tea this year. My husband was busy all the time, and I'm alone in the forest, no, no, we have bears
So I would take a walk too

we have bears

And we have wild boars this year ... but we "shared" the sphere of collecting raw materials with them!

And we have wild boars this year ..

And what do they eat? Are they attacking?
We have several people eating every year. And you don't need to go into the wilderness
You won't want any tea, so at the dacha only collecting raw materials from me. One kind soul shared a cherry tree (or rather a bush) Cherry leaves are worth their weight in gold here!

And what do they eat? Are they attacking?

Nooo ... don't get attacked. We can't see them during the day. They just dig up our fields, you go and you can immediately see where they "frolicked" tonight.

Nah ... don't attack

Ahhh ... then normul! I don't want to take a walk!

But, alas, no .... CYPRUS. I can't even imagine what a furry looks like.

Fireweed is actually a fairly unpretentious plant.
I grow it in the garden. Moreover, if it is constantly cut off, then it gives more and more new shoots. Rejuvenates. I collect young leaves until autumn.
If you want, I will send you the seeds.
But keep in mind that fireweed is a rhizome weed. It is advisable to limit its roots. I put him in two barrel halves dug into the ground. And no problem.

[toffee]

fireweed - rhizome weed

toffee, Irina, what does it mean? Will he, like raspberries, crawl everywhere?
In our country house it grows like a weed

We have several people eating every year. And you don't need to go into the wilderness

Do boars eat people?

[toffee]

toffee, Irina,

fireweed - rhizome weed

I really hope for it! I have more than 10 acres of land under tinning. In the summer, a bush was sent to me from near Chernigov for divorce. 10 Koreshkov was accepted. BUT ... we often have drought and dry winds. These roots-bushes were watered, and if it grows, then you will not water it all. Because of the dry winds, he will not grow tall anyway. And I'm also afraid of wild boars and mice. Both those and other rhizomes can undermine. Well, I really want to breed!

Do boars eat people?

Bears and We have no boars

Bears and We have no boars

What a horror. I wouldn't go to the forest at all.We don't have them, but anyway, when you enter the raspberry-tree in the forest, for some reason bears come to mind.

[natushka]

natushka, Natasha, I don’t go now. Only if with familiar dogs. And then this is also not an option ...
Therefore, tea from country leaves

Last year it was forbidden to go to the forest ... but this year it is normal, apparently the bears went to bed.

And here they also go to settlements. A friend saw with her own eyes. And you don't need to enter the forest

Girls, I have one girl here who took a few tests with teas according to the manual. Mine, from the grandmother's bazaar, from the pharmacy and the "certified" store. Well, what can I say? The same "certified" gave out such that drinking it is not just dumb, but absolutely NOT! I don't know where their fireweed grew, or who made it with unwashed hands, but E. coli was sown.

[Radushka]

, E. coli was sown.

Radushka, what passions! And it happens.We also bought fireweed sometimes ...

These roots-bushes were watered, and if it grows, then you will not water it all. Because of the dry winds, he will not grow tall anyway.

Or maybe put him somewhere in the cubbyhole? For example, to the barn. Fireweed endures partial shade.

[Irina]

Irina, I can't plant the whole garden in partial shade. But it should be. This year the summer was good, that's why Ivanushka started. But autumn is terrible ... universal dryness

In the New Year, I wish you many successful collections.
In our city the first snow, I'll go to pick up the needles. Grind the dried needles in a coffee grinder and add them to tea and bread.

[Alina]

Alina, and a Happy New Year to you! Dried needles help with coughing.

Happy New Year everyone! Happiness, health and all earthly blessings! Well, and delicious tea this year, of course!

[lappl1]

lappl1, Ludmila, thanks for the recipe!
And to all tea makers, thank you for your help in making the tea. I took it home, everyone liked it!

[Radushka]

Radushkawhat a gorgeous lady!

[Elena]

Elena, do not embarrass!

Devuli, who will tell you which Badan is suitable for tea? Are there any specific varieties or any?

Natush, I made from the one that grows in the country, just don't ferment it.

Thank you, Lenus, I choose seeds in the online store, I saw a hearty Red Star Badan, so I don’t know if it will fit? But similar.

[Natalo4-ka]

Natalo4-ka, Natasha, but we didn’t like the badan tea, not me alone.

Checkmark, will grow, I will try, if tea does not go, it will live like a flower)))

Tea and incense are very aromatic. It must be mixed with the other.

Natasha, I wrote somewhere here that in the first year he did not inspire me! I didn't even pick its yellow leaves last year. And recently I got into a jar, there is such a flavor! Not Ivanushka, of course, but the smell is good!
And Galya Nasha is a raspberry maniac ...

Leaf Grinding Tool for Loose Tea

Girls (boys), maybe someone will tell you where you can order the production of such a device? My men are still too young for such work (4 and 5 years old), there are no others in the house, but I want to make my work easier. I have this fireweed in the village, "like shoe polish"!