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

[Larissa]

Larissa, maybe it wilted at a high temperature and then fermentation started? And it turns out that it was over-fermented?
I, if it takes a long time to get from the village, bring the leaves hot. Even when I swaddle.

Radushka, but in vain you swaddle! Try doing "wrong" once, as I do all the time. (not because I'm so harmful, but because I love rationalization in all matters)
Pour the leaves into a dense pet bag and tie it tightly, after squeezing the air out of it as much as possible. Trust me, nothing burns or ferments along the way. I also leave the leaves at home for two days in such a bag to lie down. Just have time to wither. Excess moisture accumulates on the walls of the bag.
Of course, I understand that now sneakers will fly at me from all sides from the guru and the neguru, but I highly recommend trying. (it is worth remembering simply that the main enemy of our leaves before the fermentation process is oxygen, it gives oxidation and heating, and less oxygen, these processes go less - this is a scientific explanation of my way of transporting and drying leaves)

[Irina]

Irina, I do this and that. It's still hot and smells like fermentation. Well, perhaps, when I am driving in a car with a Conder, there is no aroma. But, I have never spoiled the tea. so ... To be honest, I find it strange sometimes to read complaints about non-aromatic tea.
Now for the second time I will twist the forest blackberry with an apple tree. When I come from training, I'll dry it. Straight, I wonder, surpass our favorite with you or not? Something tells me that no

No, Radushka, will not surpass! Her leaves are still less fragrant.
And about non-aromatic tea .... I guess it's not about the tea, but about the noses. Maybe people expect that the whole tea will turn out like a cherry, but it smells stupefying, but soft, gentle ... and not chemically vigorous ...

[filirina]

filirina, hmmm ... you and I are notable noses ...
I still hear only a sour apple (leaves from a late autumn apple tree). The specialist did not add anything else. True, the color of the weak granules is dark. Almost black. I wonder which ones will dry out?
And tomorrow I will do the village with Ivanushka. And cherry-mono (what would her!). Ask for a cherry! They say that any store sticks are delicious with her. Tell me, what for do they buy sticks for money?

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudmila, yes, the usual garden black chokeberry
And what, there is some other?

Tell me, what for do they buy sticks for money?

Oh, Radushka, this remains a secret ...
And I also had to make mono cherries, well, the one that was hovering. She rushed, and my old one, then bye bye, someone attached to see and forgot. And there was nothing to even put on a martin. So I did. The truth is quite a bit, there were 300 grams of leaf. But while I was drying, I thought I was in the apartment with an eel.

maybe it wilted at a high temperature and then fermentation started?

anything can be

Maybe people expect that the whole tea will turn out like a cherry, but it smells stupefying, but soft, gentle ... and not chemically vigorous ...

that's where the dog is buried.
I really like the cherry when adding it. I want to dry lemon peels to add to tea too.

[Podmosvichka]

And what, there is some other

Podmosvichka, Elena, in our Russian village there were only two black chokeberry bushes - one at a neighbor next to me, and the other on the edge of the village, where I went once or twice a year - on the outskirts. So, the neighbor was greedy, but sometimes she gave me a bag or two of leaves. But in the fall, she was allowed to cut everything off, when it was already problematic to twist those leaves.But she made tea, where to go ...
And then a year later I saw a neighbor, who was on the outskirts, chic black chokeberry bushes. She asked if it was possible to pick the leaves? He said that at least the leaves, even the berries - pick as much as you want. Well, I made tea. The disappointment was complete. I thought I had done something wrong. Four tries and four disappointments.
I got into the Internet and found information about chokeberry. And it turned out that there is black chokeberry, and there is a variety of mountain ash "Likernaya" selected by IV Michurin. It is derived from crossing the common forest mountain ash with the chokeberry. I still have not figured out which variety grows from whom - outwardly they are very similar, only the neighbor's leaves are slightly smaller, but the berries are very tasty. And the neighbor's berries are not so tasty. Maybe you are growing just such a tasteless variety, but very beautiful, with larger leaves?

They say that any store sticks are delicious with her. Tell me, what for do they buy sticks for money?

[Lasto4ka]

Lasto4ka, Svetlanawhy are you laughing? I'm serious! Friends came to see me. I poured a package for my friend "Three Sisters". And to the table she brewed some kind of rustic one with cherries and her own precious Koporsky ... Druzhban took a sip ... And he said - delicious, BUT ... DO NOT TEA! What is the answer to this argument? Yes, not tea. I’m not deceiving anyone. It's just that my spouse and I can no longer drink another. Have tried. Not that

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudmila, yes, my leaves are large, and tomorrow I'll pick the berries, I'll try

delicious, BUT ... DO NOT TEA!

You don't need to say anything. Let the tea sticks continue to brew, but then tea!
I, too, can no longer drink ordinary tea. He is too tart and rude for me now. Since childhood, I somehow did not bother, the whole family drank black. Then somehow imperceptibly I switched to green, it is softer to me than black. But I also don't like pure green. There is a lot of tannins in it, some astringency, or something ... Therefore, I drank "with natural flavors", and not strong. such a self-deception.
But this tea is just the thing for me! And there is aroma, taste, and some kind of refinement. But this is, give chefir to someone! Yes, so that flavors already spread out the nose!

Have you noticed what a wonderful aftertaste our tea has? And long, long! Just like good wine. An hour has passed since the last sip was, and everything is yummy in your mouth!

[Radushka]

Pani Tasha, currant (black, I hope?)

Radushka, yes black currant. My husband and I made tea from bird cherry. When added to other teas, we really liked the taste, almond one. And the other day they found a no-man's apple tree, they were very happy, they picked up leaves, enough for mixes. For our region, this is just a treasure.) Only there are no apples on it. We only have Ivan tea in abundance. Even mixtures were made from it - tops + flowers + boxes + leaves. A stunning tea turned out. The taste of brewed with sourness is obtained. Although separately it does not give anything sourness. An interesting effect. I also wanted to ask if it is possible to add hawthorn leaves?

Added on Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 01:46

Florichka, please tell me, do you ferment meadowsweet leaves too? We simply dry it during flowering as a medicine.

[Lasto4ka]

Lasto4ka, Radushka, Aha! I can't get enough of my tea! By the way, I now perceive it differently, or dry fermentation, and the tea becomes better, or my receptors are tuned, or all together. First - well, tea and tea, you can drink, it is tasty, the energy from it appears out of nowhere, the heart does not beat out - good. And now he is sooooo ... TEA! It seems to me that I even began to smell it, a little bit, but still ... and what a rich taste and aftertaste it has, it gradually reveals itself ...

[Pani Tasha]

do you ferment meadowsweet leaves too?

Pani Tasha, yes, we ferment the leaves and dry the flowers in the dryer.

, I now perceive it differently, or dry fermentation, and the tea is getting better,

Yanka, Tatyana, and do not hesitate - it is, dry fermentation, which I always repeat so persistently (in the sense that freshly made tea is not tasted) ...

whether my receptors are tuned,

It is not excluded. Our tea does wonders. Especially ivan tea ...

Have you noticed what a wonderful aftertaste our tea has? And long, long!

Radushka, indeed, this aftertaste lasts for a long, long time, even after drinking a glass of water some time after tea.

Yes girls, there is an aftertaste. And the longer my brewed tea stands, the more interesting it is. And the taste is revealed more. By the way, I really like our tea cold. I brew a lot in the French press, and then I drink slowly. And every time the tea is different

By the way, I really like our tea cold

I don't drink myself, and my husband is a big soda lover. We fill where filtered water is sold. So he uses our tea instead of syrup. I've tried it. Yummy! Moreover, without any sweetener!

[Pani Tasha]

Pani Tasha, I was doing mono hawthorn. The tea is good, I wrote earlier, both in color and in taste-aroma. But I have some kind of garden variety, not a wild one. The leaves and fruits are huge. Here

[Likar Nadiya]

Likar Nadiya, taste and color ... I don't like mono-hawthorn. Absolutely. I put in mixes. And, behold, I love the fruits! I don't have mine, I take it from a friend. I brought a bucket - I ate a bucket

[Radushka]

Radushkatea reminds me of the taste of berries. And while the leaves were fermented, they smelled like apples). He just started to sing, the fruits are pouring, so the son (2 years old) does not leave him, eats all day.

[Pani Tasha]

Pani Tasha, Natalie, I ferment meadowsweet leaves. I don't like mono tea from it, but with fireweed or from garden tea in the ratio of 1 tavolga 2 tsp others is excellent. This I brew on a teapot 350 ml.
But I don’t twist it through a meat grinder. And rolls without fanaticism, it is tough, I remember that's all. I ferment in a mule 40 g for 6 hours.
I read a lot about it on the internet, but as a medicine for what do you use it?

I read a lot about it on the internet, but as a medicine for what do you use it?

can I answer? from the information on the Internet, meadowsweet is a strong antiviral agent, when a cold starts, you need to take meadowsweet powder (not an infusion) half a teaspoon, repeat the treatment after a few hours, by the morning it will take off the cold as if by hand. Last year I underwent such treatment, it seems to me that it is more pleasant to have a cold than to be treated with meadowsweet. I, in general, did not like the taste of meadowsweet in tea, although I put it at a minimum, a pinch on a glass, the taste is sharp, almond, if you drink on an empty stomach, it makes you feel nauseous, and then the powder immediately goes into my mouth, my stomach aches with pain after a few minutes, it gets ... Meadowsweet contains something similar to aspirin, so if you have a bad stomach or are intolerant to aspirin, meadowsweet is not for you. But everything is very individual, my mother-in-law also took meadowsweet for colds, she liked it, I gladly gave her all my stocks of this herb.

Just tasted freshly brewed freshly made wild blackberry and apple tree tea. Well, what can I say? The color is luxurious, the aroma ... mediocre. Taste ... of good strong black tea from the supermarket (with the same astringency). In short, I will not throw it away, but I will not go into the forest especially for blackberry leaves.

And here's another mix - honey. We pumped honey from our hives. It is, of course, a floral mix, but the main honey plant is Ivan-tea. We just have fields around it. So look what he is - Fireweed honey. It tastes slightly tart, fragrant and has a beautiful reddish-pink tint. There, on the left, the bag is visible, the mix was being dried: Ivanushka + pear + apple tree of 3 varieties + blackthorn + raspberry + goof. According to Zechariah.


This, of course, is not all honey.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, teasing, Linochka! Now I would like my steamed raspberry and with your freshly pumped ... mmm

teasing, Linochka!

Aha! .... Nah, I share my joy

Mowed a lot of raspberries ...machete, nothing else took. Now I have a whole crate of raspberry leaves, knee-crushed, in the freezer waiting to die. I wonder what to do with him?

[Linadoc]

Linadocare you asking me this? Raspberries in all forms are good

are you asking me?

She, you are useless, you are a raspberry-man! This I am thinking, in writing. But, by the way, I now have an interesting thought. If I think it over, I will share it. But I'll figure it out on Friday, now I have to work

I will share.

I will wait! I do not have raspberries in the store yet, but in two weeks I will clean up fresh shoots.

[Linadoc]

And here's another mix - honey. Pumped honey from their hives

Linadoc, what a beauty ! Thank you, Linochka, for showing and telling ...

Added Wednesday 24 Aug 2016 06:09

By the way, I now have an interesting thought. I'll think it over and share it. But I'll figure it out on Friday, now I have to work

And do not forget to issue this idea with a separate recipe?

for almost 3 years I have been eating fireweed honey

And I'm the second year, you know. So now I will definitely be able to distinguish it from other flower honey - both in taste and in color.

True, I, too, now have a beautiful red shade, but with spots, in the bull's-eye, they bitten, girls, infections.

[svetn]

svetn, Svetlana, thank you very much for such useful information about meadowsweet. I will link to your post on the first page, so that this information is not lost.

Well, I never wither mixed, I always wither the leaves separately, and then I mix. After all, they behave differently from different flavors.

And I immediately wither the mixture, somehow I began to do it right away when I dabbled with mono-tea. First, 3-4 hours on a sheet, stir every hour, stir. And then I swaddle tightly in a sheet and leave it for 5-6 hours. Usually, by this time, everything is already perfectly dried. If anything crunches, then these are units. Well, then into the bag and into the freezer. Because I prefer to do all the mixes according to Zachariy. But! I try not to freeze Ivanushka. I have it separately dried, twisted and fermented for 3 hours and joins the main part of the mix at the stage of twisting. Something like this Everyone likes the result, I never got a broom.

[Florichka]

Girls and boys, made links in the Notes to this recipe to posts Florichka-Iras and svetn-Lights about mixes with meadowsweet and its properties. Keep in mind.

The properties of meadowsweet, Mixes with meadowsweet

I never had a broom.

[Luda]

Luda, can I not comment on the meadowsweet?
Just add that this is a plant of the Rosaceae family (like roses, apple trees, pears, plums, cherries, apricots, peaches, raspberries, hawthorns ...) and, accordingly, tea from it should be good. Its properties are exaggerated. I will not add about fermentation again. But I will say one more thing: spiraea is also meadowsweet, meadowsweet. And its properties are the same, and even better, and the taste is the same, and no one made tea from it. Do something

Do something

Make it! Little. That the opinion could be voiced. And then I have already cut off at most I can not. And no leaves for tea

Pumped honey from their hives

So look what he is - Fireweed honey

Hurrah! Lina came with honey! I'm on honey

[Light]

Light, Light, come on, otherwise the current bees flock to him. You see, even in the photo was captured

[sniff]

Therefore, I decided at least 8 hours, preferably 16-20 and be sure sniff.

The color of the granules can also serve as a guide, after a meat grinder it is green, and after fermentation it turns black.

You see, even in the photo was captured

it turned out nicely

and after fermentation it turns black.

Well, not always. Raspberries practically do not change, and the apple tree turns light brown

Added on Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:07 PM

This is just what I know I did

[Likar Nadiya]

Likar Nadiya, Nadezhda, thank you, we have the same growing. Apparently they were once planted. So there will be more addition to the mixes. And for the wild, we have an unsuitable climate.
Florichka, Irina, thank you. We have such a meadowsweet, she is a meadowsweet.
And we brew it at the slightest sign of a cold or flu, and even if you get very sick, it still helps.According to this recipe: pour 1 liter of boiling water into a thermos, add 3 tablespoons of finely chopped leaves and meadowsweet inflorescences, 4 tablespoons of wild rose berries. The infusion should be infused overnight. During the day, drink infusion instead of tea. Thanks to her, we have not taken any pills for many years. And for prevention, we just add it to tea. We like the taste.

Added Wednesday 24 Aug 2016 00:12

But with svetn I do not agree, since the infusion of meadowsweet is also used for stomach pains. And they recommend it to those who have aspirin intolerance. For our northern regions, the most useful herb, always helps.

[Lina]

spiraea is also meadowsweet, meadowsweet.

Lina, so I did it from the meadowsweet. We only grew up like this. It smells delicious when fresh, but I didn't like it when fermented ... I didn't like dried flowers either. So I threw them away before moving - flowers and tea ... But the taste and color, as they say ...

And we brew it at the slightest sign of a cold or flu, and even if you get very sick, it still helps.

Pani Tasha, Natalie, eh, earlier there would have been this information, I would have left my meadows ...

Quote: vlek from Yesterday at 21:22
and after fermentation it turns black.
Well, not always. Raspberries practically do not change, and the apple tree turns light brown

Oh, garden ones don't turn black! Well, except for the pear. Cherries are getting dark, blackberries, too (now I know, I saw). And raspberries-currants-apple-hawthorn-cherry-plum-strawberries ... darken, the color changes, but nothing black, ferment them at least how many! Only the scent can be lost!

infusion of meadowsweet is also used for stomach pains.

I will not argue if the meadowsweet helped someone, I’m only glad, I described my practical experience, because even on the inserts for pharmaceutical medicinal herbs they write “contraindications - individual intolerance” and everyone makes their own choice.

And we have such a meadowsweet:




The forest glades are full. I found her when I was looking for meadow and forest geraniums. And I found the forest geranium when the kikimor went to look for it.




I didn't really like the tea made of it. There is no aroma at all, grass is grass, just gives color.

And then I found the kikimor here. You see, they trampled paths right in the water:

I didn't like geranium either. But, in teas with a weak color, you can add a little, I think.

and jam from lily petals without a geranium leaf is not so tasty