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

Here are the neighbors, they do not need delicacy leaves at all, which I do not have - both the cherry is delicious, and the black mountain ash, which we removed, and now I regret, grapes, pear
I was still looking for quince everywhere to plant, but wherever I asked, it was sold or not imported .... and I brought it from Udmurtia and went to my husband's homeland. While she is very small, but I'm waiting

Added Monday 26 Dec 2016 01:27 PM

I don’t know whether it will take root or not, I planted a walnut tree, I was given it at work, but I haven’t seen any reviews about tea from it yet.
Lyudochka made a hazelnut, maybe not very walnut

[Tulip]

Tulip, don't even try from walnut! The walnut smells like iodine

No, I won't then. Well, maybe the nuts will be delicious

Teas with currants are just wonderful. BUT ... I like raspberries more

So I, in the end, made the same conclusion. For me, very unexpected. I happily made currants this year, I walk, I am happy. Then I try, I taste ... and I understand ..., nope, raspberries are tastier! And currants, maybe in the spring will have to
And Ivanushka is not going yet A lot and did a lot of different things, but which one I won't try ... nope ..., I'll go brew raspberries

And I'm a drug addict Ivan-tea. Cherry is in second place, an apple tree is honorable. Recently I took out the remains of Ivanushka and an apple tree from the freezer (I wrote above), ground, fermented, dried. So I got such a thrill from the aromas! And to drink it, it's so soulful

9. When the leaves were all over, I went to the woods for strawberries, remembering Lyuda your story, I could pick up a small bag, added some strawberry and for some reason I got a dark green tea, but very interesting in taste, we also called it elite

So I had 800g of strawberry leaves - I made loose tea - the tea itself was dark green in color. Delicious when standing for at least six months.

I don't know whether it will take root or not, I planted a walnut tree, they gave me at work

The walnut tree grows vigorously, the crown shades a large area. Nothing will grow under it. Then it will be a pity for the tree, and for the empty land too.

[Lily]

Delicious when standing for at least six months.

Lily, it was very tasty for us, but I can imagine how it would be now I will try to do more This hobby is now for life
Taya, thanks, I read about the nut, let's think about it, but we have a lawn and a flower bed under it, my mother, of course, will worry about the flower bed

[Lichka]

Lichka, Angela, speaking of the kidneys. I got an idea here. When you form a currant bush, you cut out a lot of growth. I cut good, strong, ripe shoots for rooting. But, there are always parts that are not suitable for this. The buds from such sprouts can be dried and then aromatized with IMI the finished tea. The buds are not berries. Will not give "compote" taste.

Radushka, we somehow, in the pre-day era, in the spring, collected the buds from currants, filled them with vodka and thought to add this essence a little bit like a natural flavoring in a glass. It turned out such a thermonuclear that they poured it out, but found applications.

Added on Tuesday 27 Dec 2016 2:05 PM

Tulip, Olga, it is unlikely that the nut will grow, as in Moldova, on the floor of the yard.
In our country, a walnut froze to the ground every winter, in summer it gave a strong growth, in winter - again kirdyk.
Although you may have some kind of particularly winter-hardy.

[Angela]

AngelaI don’t know what grade, but who gave it, they say the nuts are collected in buckets in the suburbs at the dacha
If tea cannot be made from it and if there are no nuts, we will remove

[Tulip]

Tulip, Olga,

nuts are collected in buckets

it's good! I love when everything is in buckets, tons and wagons

I love when everything is in buckets, tons and wagons

But I do not love! First the battle for the harvest, and then with the harvest

But I do not love! First the battle for the harvest, and then with the harvest

Nothing, it's better to fight with the harvest than to look at empty shelves. Life has taught us to always have a stock, just in case.

[Lichka]

Lichka, oh, Angela, let's not talk about sad things. Full shelves, alas, do not help in some cases.
And, in general ... we began to eat something so little. Even strange

[Radushka]

Radushka,

we have become so little to eat.

Our tea normalizes metabolism. Maybe that's why the momentum has slowed down

Added on Tuesday 27 Dec 2016 7:43 PM

I'm trying to fight my gigantomania, for next season I promise to plant only 3! cucumber (and bought seeds - enough for the whole village). The same is true in eggplant peppers, or such hybrids are now fruitful, or the sun is especially gentle - you cannot plant more than 10 pieces, they will overwhelm the crop.

or such hybrids are now productive

Yes. They are like that now. I had in the city, just three pieces. ALL SUMMER ate fresh. And every week, including October, a liter jar of salted. I don’t prepare for the winter, really. My mother-in-law is engaged in this. She had 10 bushes. Well, there are 10 three-liter ones. And we don't need more.

Hello everyone!!!! Dear ones, Happy New Year! I wish you happiness, kindness, peace, warmth, health, patience, care, ease, celebration, love, faith, hopes, desires, dreams, events, success, mood, loved ones nearby, miracles, blessings, prosperity, stability, adventure, beauty, strength, wisdom. May each year, and not only the current one, be the most ideal, better than the previous one, uncompromisingly excellent in all respects, developing into an impeccable life! And also, a lot of good and tasty tea!

Happy New Year to everyone! I wish you health, joy, happiness, luck, prosperity, new victories.
And, of course, new delicious tea in the new tea season!
Happy New Year! Happy New Tea!

Happy New Year! Happy New Tea!

And I have some frozen leaves in the stash. After the frosty linen tea, I went and picked off all the leaves that were still hanging in the garden. What to do?
There will be, so-called, Last year snowtea

And I have some frozen leaves in the stash. After the frosty linen tea, I went and picked off all the leaves that were still hanging in the garden. What to do?
There will be the so-called Last Year snowtea

Cool

Happy New Year, dear tea-makers!
It's probably time to open the season. In the fall I didn't have time to process the leaves and now there are two huge bags of sucker and a bag of cherries in the freezer chest. I can imagine what the aroma will be in the house.

[Radushka]

What to do?

Radushkaof course do it! Already in the fall we have not a single leaf left on the trees and bushes. And I would also try to do so.

It's probably time to open the season.

francevna, Allochka, do it! Soon, new leaves will appear. At the same time, you will free the freezer.
Zachary, in the Gazebo I asked you, and you already ran away. What bag are you in the photo? With such a familiar name ...

[francevna]

francevna, Allochka!

now in the freezer chest there are two huge bags of sucker and a bag of cherries

What are you all clever thrifty and I have not a leaf in my stash .... tea only decreases rapidly.

And I immediately bought a chest freezer for my new House! They brought me home, they brought me in, I’m standing there, I wail! I had to take more! will be too small! hee hee

Lenusik, congratulations! Cool purchase! Now freeze the leaves - that's enough until next season!

[Elena Kadiewa]

And we have frozen leaves!
Elena Kadiewa, Lenochka, congratulations on your purchase

chest freezer

[Elena]

Elena, Congratulations!!! This thing is a chest!

Aha!
Immediately dreamed of going to a new Chest House! there is enough space for him!

And I want a chest! Only there is nowhere to put it

And I want a chest! I have been dreaming about it for the third year, a year ago I even found a place, but I have not yet found either a chest or opportunities to purchase it. This is all, apparently, in different places you need to look

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, please come to me! to my chest ...

And I want a chest! I have been dreaming about it for the third year, a year ago I even found a place, but I haven’t found either a chest or an opportunity to buy it. This is all, apparently, in different places you need to look

Speak and think: here I am collecting peppers - I will put them in a chic, large chest!
Here I collect berries - how wonderful they will lie in my chest!
You look, and the chest will catch up with your thoughts and words

please come to me! to my chest ...

Already, already examined him from the outside and from the inside! It suits me

and the chest will catch up with your thoughts-words

Definitely! I myself tell everyone so and stubbornly believe in it

Still the funds for it were tightened

I remember your research in my chest ... and I am not the only one who remembers! especially for temperature conditions ...

Well, it was necessary electrician check the electrician. Suddenly he was lonely the temperature is wrong there

[Elena Kadiewa]

Elena Kadiewa, Helen, what kind of chest do you have?

Radushka, the choice here is not big - Turquoise at 260, useful at 240

Yesterday my son and I were packing tea bags. Sniffed !!! Smells from raspberry, grape, apple, cherry teas are especially impressive. And the petals of flowers from an apricot are just a perfume of some kind. It is literally a few petals to add to the teapot so as not to overdo it.
In special honor we have a collection of pears, raspberries, fireweed and, oddly enough, a small fraction of apricot leaves. (I haven't praised him very much before.) The infusion is so dark, rich. And the apricot gives a hint of piquancy, completes the tea symphony with the last chord

This is how our apricot blossomed.

[Angela]

Angela, delicious as described!

Yesterday my son and I were packing tea bags. Sniffed !!! Smells from raspberry, grape, apple, cherry teas are especially impressive. And the petals of flowers from an apricot are just a perfume of some kind. It is literally a few petals to add to the teapot so as not to overdo it.
...

I have dried rosehip petals. I put the same 2-3 petals in the teapot. Otherwise, a very perfumery taste is obtained.

[Lichka]

Lichka, lily_a, Angela, Lilya, thank you girls for sharing their findings. You described your teas so deliciously.
Now I have both the apricot and the rosehip. So, next season I will definitely prepare the petals and try to make tea from apricot leaves.

Posted Saturday 14 Jan 2017 10:14 AM

This is how our apricot blossomed.

Angela, wonderful photo! I am looking forward to spring to see the apricot and apricot bloom. I love this time!

[Tulip]

Tulip, Olenka, yes ... Such a report !!! This is not a report - this is an Ode to our tea! How well you described everything! Thank you very much for that!
Now, if I had never made tea and read your post, I would have rushed headlong to read the recipe, and would have started doing everything at once - both rustic, and raspberry, and others ... You so clearly described all the nuances that questions does not remain.
There is only one thing left - to be happy for you, your relatives and even colleagues, that now, thanks to you, they have the opportunity to drink delicious and healthy tea in such a rich assortment.
Come on, Olenka, cook a lot more in the new season. Or maybe you can think of something for yourself - then I ask you to write the recipe and show it to us. The more teas we have, the better.

- from leaves - black, rich, awesome, my husband often asked me to brew my elite one for him, he called him that.

Eh ... I said that there is never a lot of Ivan-tea. Cook it more.He becomes simply stunning over the years! I know that Ivan-tea does not grow next to you, and dad brings you leaves ... But I really want you to try Ivan-tea in three years. Then dad will love him even more ... And for this you need to make a lot of Ivan-tea!

from the tops I got the smell of rye crusts like white-pink didn’t come out like that for anyone, I read only from the boxes and from the leaves, but I didn’t feel it in the taste, I’ll do it again, my dad said to tear them easily, once on the field and package

Olya, this tea then smells like bread when old seed pods got into it. There is a lot of fluff in them. While the boxes are young, the fluff is tender. And when it gets old, it gives a rye flavor. But they say that he gets better with time ... She herself did not have time to check it.

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudochka.
I was so "sick" with the tea topic that I constantly read articles about teas, and it turns out that drinking store teas can be simply dangerous
Tea plantations are treated with pesticides, like all other fruits and vegetables, countless times. In areas where tea is grown, all sorts of poisonous reptiles are found, and so that workers can work safely, the soil under the tea bushes is mercilessly spilled with glyphosate, a weed killer. I can imagine what the composition of the current store teas is ...
It is a pity that the older generation, especially the fathers, are apparently ineradicable in the habit of black tea. Of our they do not recognize tea.

... And when it gets old, it gives a rye flavor. But they say that he gets better with time ... She herself did not have time to check it.

She is getting better .... I experienced it on my tea. The scent becomes floral with well-perceptible notes of prunes. Just a miracle, not tea. But I also liked the smell of bread, just such a familiar smell of fresh bread, straight from the oven. I still have a lot of last year's teas and this year I made a lot, but I don't drink them too much. The spouse begins to have severe headaches from the smell of Ivanushka and our fermented scent. How! Although from flights, on occasion, Ivanushka always brings me.

[Lucilia]

Lucilia,

The spouse begins to have severe headaches from the smell of Ivanushka and our fermented scent.

Here's to you! Are you allergic to fruits, but are you allergic to fruit tea?

, what about fruit tea?

Uh-huh!

Uh-huh!

Suspiciously, he might so tactfully avoid homemade tea so as not to offend

While waiting for the village with dry ivanushka to brew, I will write -
The mother-in-law has senile atrophy of the auditory and optic nerves. Well, and as a result, the loss of the ability to smell. She does not smell AT ALL. No. Even very smelly. And ordinary, store-bought tea for her became practically tasteless.
And OUR, from garden sauces, yes, also with cherry leaves (I put at least 10% especially for her), drinks with pleasure. And she says that even without a smell, he is very tasty to her!

Well, your not favorite cherry has found its connoisseur! Very happy!
And not "phew" at all!

And not "phew" at all!

Helen, me - phew, be and kaka!
Now I only make mixes with cherries on order. And so ... I will cook it separately. And only BEFORE July. She then smells like a rose, albeit strongly. And later it starts to smell like paint