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

maybe he so tactfully avoids homemade tea so as not to offend

No, we drank only our tea in winter, did not buy it at all. I saw it myself: I like the taste, but cannot drink, it seems like an allergy begins. Even when I just spin it and ferment it, I don't ask for it, I get sick. And I still enjoy the smell, open the box and, well, breathe, on, I say, sniff ....., already in the face changes.

[horror]

No, we drank only our tea in winter, did not buy it at all. I saw it myself: I like the taste, but cannot drink, it seems like an allergy begins. Even when I just spin it and ferment it, I don't ask for it, I get sick. And I still enjoy the smell, open the box and, well, breathe, on, I say, sniff ....., already in the face changes.

Damn...
My eldest son and I have established super-friendly relations against the background of making and drinking homemade tea. So he liked the whole action. And he is so fussy about food and smells, horror simply!

[Lichka]

Lichka, Anzhi, did you manage to wind up the May "Ivan"? And then I have in abundance, I will share. Fortunately, we live in the same city.

[Lichka]

I was so "ill" with the tea topic that I constantly read articles about teas, and it turns out that drinking store teas can be simply dangerous

Lichka, Angela, don't tell me ... It is. How else to preserve the harvest on an industrial scale? So it is with any mass-produced product. There is only one way out - to grow and do everything yourself.

It is a pity that the older generation, especially the fathers, the habit of black tea is apparently ineradicable. They do not recognize our teas.

Habit is sometimes a scary thing ..

She is getting better .... I experienced it on my tea. The smell becomes floral with well-perceptible notes of prunes. Just a miracle, not tea.

Lucilia, Luda, I didn't know, and I just threw away several batches of such tea ... And what is left is just some kind of thrill. Now I add a pinch to other teas.

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

This is exactly the case about which they write - individual intolerance. It's a shame, of course. But health is more expensive.

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!

Radushka, that's what life-giving cross our tea makes ....

Lichka, Anzhi, did you manage to wind up the May "Ivan"? And then I have in abundance, I will share. Fortunately, we live in the same city.

Lichka, Angela, agree ...

Girls, indeed, our seagulls improve over time! A year and a half has passed since the collection and preparation and my cherry-apple, which I cried about, straightened! When I did, the smell was crazy, and the finished one was just hay, I was so upset ... And now such a cool smell and cherry tart bitterness appeared, even if keep it until summer and put it in cucumbers! I even wake him up with other teas.
When I get to Ivanushka, I still don’t get into his habitat during the season ...

[ekivoka_i]

ekivoka_i, well, thank God, you are convinced that it is difficult to spoil our tea! Congratulations !

you need to listen to your elders ...

And what will happen in 3 years with this tea !!! Wow ... So you always have to harvest more, for three years. And to drink "old", and let the new one be kept for the time being.

now such a cool smell and cherry tart bitterness appeared, even though keep it until summer and put it in cucumbers!

It is possible in cucumbers ... But, I think that in season it is still better to put fresh ones in jars ... Although, when I make "Winter ketchup", I put cherry and currant tea in the infusion. He shows himself very well there.

Quote: Lucilia from Yesterday at 11:15 am
The spouse begins to have severe headaches from the smell of Ivanushka and our fermented scent.
This is exactly the case about which they write - individual intolerance. It's a shame, of course. But health is more expensive.

Or cockroaches in my head .... I experienced it myself. People have distrust, some kind of homemade tea, how it will affect health and begin to blame some kind of ailments on tea. As if they never had anything without tea. I don’t persuade ardent skeptics and don’t treat them anymore, but I suggest that close relatives continue to drink and watch. And they are surprised to be convinced that the tea is not to blame. And the complaints ranged from allergies to the effect on blood pressure, to whom it lowers, to whom it increases. Maybe Lyudmila's husband really has such a reaction, I won't argue, but my observations convince only of the beneficial effects of our tea. By the way, I read somewhere about the psychosomatics of diseases, so a headache is the result of rejection of something.

Although, when I make "Winter ketchup", I put cherry and currant tea in the infusion. He shows himself very well there.

And I thought I was joking ... By the way, besides tea, there is also a dried currant leaf lying unused, so the recipe in the studio, please! And then the other day I was perverted with tomato paste and adjika for pizza, but you can probably make it tastier ...

[ekivoka_i]

that recipe in the studio please!

ekivoka_i, what kind of jokes are there? Everything is grown up here! You are welcome:

Ketchup "Winter" (lappl1)

Cook to your health!

Wow, how great! Thank you, I will try to buy pasta and cook, I have the rest of the ingredients, and I keep the Tomato only in the tiniest jars, at a time.

[Lucilia]

Lucilia, Luda, it's a shame that my husband has such a reaction to tea, so I want everyone to enjoy this tea
Dear tea-makers, what a joy I have!
For ten days I did not open a jar of tea with the inscription - raspberry, strawberry, apple tree, lemon balm dated 01.10.16. (raspberry 80%).
Yesterday I open it, and there - Raspberry jam! Only now I wrote that I was so waiting for this aroma and, please, waited!
Darling, can you imagine my happiness?
My husband said that he smelled like dried raspberries, but to me clearly - jam!
Surprisingly, I smell monomalin tea from 09/17/16, it does not smell so tender, there are similar notes of raspberries, but not jam, but in the mix there is such tenderness
Immediately brewed this mix, my husband said - very tasty tea, can I have another cup (350ml)? what a happy thing i think
And I drink and guess - melissa even faded into the background, and the raspberry on the first, I hardly recognize the apple tree and strawberries And at first the jar clearly smelled of lemon, that's what a wonderful reincarnation
Luda, Radushka, girls thank you all for everything

Darling, can you imagine my happiness?

Olga, are you mine ??? Do you know HOW I wanted you to have tea, real, raspberry? Very, very happy for you!

[Radushka]

Radushka, thank you for being happy with me
I kept thinking that we should either wait, or we have another raspberry, it's good that a lot of this tea came out, otherwise they would have finished it without knowing how magical it is
Thank you for writing so much about raspberry tea and infected many, this raspberry flavor of jam haunted me.
We have more crimson leaves than the rest, so uhhhh let's do it!

[Tulip]

Tulip, be sure to do it steamed - mono. I twisted it after steaming it. A completely different "tea", by the way.I, too, had to make teas, where there are a lot of raspberries. Last season, she even conducted an experiment on cherry tea lovers. Made cherry-raspberry (or raspberry-cherry). There are exactly 50% in weight. So it was almost completely drunk!

[Radushka]

Radushka, I will definitely make a steamy one, I write everything down for myself now, I draw up a plan

Hello colleagues.
I haven't visited the forum since the summer, but so many interesting things have been added here. I will study it carefully.
In the meantime, I'll tell you about my experience. My work began in the spring. I thought, if the best varieties of traditional tea are obtained from young leaves, then fruit leaves can be tried to be picked young. I collected not yet fully blossomed cherries, sea buckthorn, pear, raspberry and apple tree. Processed everything together using granulated tea technology. It turned out a broom, although the smell was good in the process. On the advice of the members of the forum, I did not throw it away, but put it in a jar and left it to ripen. After 3 months, a delicious and aromatic tea was obtained. By the way, following the links on page 1, I realized that my tea was steaming during the drying process.
In the summer I made tea from cherries + raspberries, pears, apple trees, cherry plums, rose hips, grapes. I got to fireweed only in September. It grows almost nowhere with us, we have to go to the mountains for 150-200 km. I did not like the rosehip leaves, neither the aroma nor the taste. Pure grapes are very sour, but very good as an additive for nuance. The apple tree was not impressed, so we will drink it in mixes, but I will not do it anymore (probably). But cherry with raspberry, pear and cherry plum went with a bang, especially when mixed. Of the above, the pear is the best. I will do a lot of it, despite the strong thorniness.
Now about the fireweed. During the first flowering, it was not possible to go. When we went to the mountains in September, it turned out that after the summer harvest (someone obviously picked it in the summer) on the side shoots, many fresh flowering shoots appeared. I also collected them. Maybe that's why, maybe not, but so that "AH" doesn't work. I'll try to do better next year.
When I started making tea from the leaves, my wife laughed: "whatever the child is amused with." But I tried it and now we drink together with pleasure.
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who teaches beginners here. I have found answers to almost all questions.

Added Monday 16 Jan 2017 10:55 AM

I wanted to take part in the voting, but I can't. Tell me how to vote. Thank you.

Leonid, glad to see you in our favorite topic!
If you like pear so much, make a pear with raspberries. This is my favorite "honor monkey". Last season, I made tea from May Day pear leaves. Whole leaf. Tasty. Tender. BUT ... it takes up a lot of space. I will not do more. All the same, the summer leaves are tastier. And I don't like autumn ones. Not only because they are more difficult to process. Autumn teas are more astringent (I think so). And I try to get away from astringency. If you haven't already, check out my recipes.

Fermented tea "Radushka" from raspberry leaves (Radushka)

Fermented tea "Currant Benefit" from black currant leaves and other garden plants (Radushka)

What if there is something attractive? I will be very glad!

[Leonid]

Dearie, did I understand that he wanted to vote in tea?
Leonid, welcome to us! Maybe you just have few messages, so the "voting" does not work?

[Elena Kadiewa]

Elena Kadiewa, ahhh ... well, I'm on a different wavelength! Thanks for the tip!

If you haven't already, check out my recipes.

Thank you, I have already read your recipes. I will try it according to the season. I made from raspberries, but, unlike yours, my raspberries did not granulate well. Therefore, I began to mix it with cherries.

[Leonid]

Leonid, I think, on the Internet you can call it "you".
My raspberries do not granulate well either. And I also mixed her with cherries last season. Everything will be great with the pear! Only raspberries by weight should not be more than 50%

on the Internet you can call "you"

Thank you, it's easier and more enjoyable. Ceremonies between like-minded people are not always appropriate.To date, we liked the pear the most. Only with her one misunderstanding - the color of the tea leaves is different every time. It seems that I brew almost the same, but sometimes dark, sometimes light.

Added Monday 16 Jan 2017 01:35 PM

And another interesting question. Melissa is both dried and fermented, but the lemon flavor is not preserved. Maybe there are some tricks?

[Leonid]

Leonid, and this is, for sure, melissa? They say that you need to dry at a temperature not higher than 40. BUT ... but what about the fact that you can interrupt fermentation only by heating it above 80? I don't bother. Everything is dry, as if the lemon balm was not there. All the same, the shades of taste and aroma change if the tea contains essential components. I dry lemon balm flowers separately. I just add them when brewing.
And, here, with pear brewing ... amazing! I have never had a light pear! Are we talking about the same tea, or different parties?

Melissa is both dried and fermented, but the lemon flavor is not preserved.

I, too, did not have a lemon aroma when fermenting lemon balm. I didn't try to dry it.

I have never been a light pear

And I have a light one - Chizhovsky's pear.

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, I'm waiting for you with tea in the spring, you threatened to look for a grape sapling
Leonid, welcome to our tea gatherings! In your Maikop bushes, what kind of teas can you make
Radushka, pear with raspberries - fantastic, I agree !!!

[Lichka]

Lichka, will definitely come.

And, here, with pear brewing ... amazing! I have never had a light pear! Are we talking about the same tea, or different parties?

I made a pear 1 time, so it is impossible to confuse.

and this is, exactly, melissa?

This is definitely lemon balm. When drying in the air, the aroma of the grass also disappears after a week.

And I have a light one - Chizhovsky's pear.

The fermented pear turned out to be almost black. By the way, this is wild.

In your Maikop bushes, what kind of teas can you make

A lot of things grow in our bushes, but there are two limitations - time and desire. Over time, it is understandable, but with desire it is more difficult. I don’t really want to spray too much, it’s better to work out the technology on a small assortment, and then try something new. Although you want everything at once, but this does not happen. And I just don't like something. This happened with young shoots of rose hips.
In general, I've been making fermented tea for the second year already. And I began to read this topic, because interest has already formed. Here I liked not only the full and detailed description of the processes (for which I thank everyone again), but also the friendly relations between my hobby colleagues. And the answers to stupid questions of beginners do not have to wait long.

[Leonid]

Leonid,

And I just don't like something. This happened with young shoots of rose hips.

I didn’t like the apricot at first, brrr ... and now the mix with the apricot went into business. Maybe the rose hips need time for dry fermentation.

Added Monday 16 Jan 2017 7:58 PM

Lichka, I will definitely come.

See you!

I have a mono local wild pear. The tea is very black. It doesn't taste good to me. I put 20-30% for the color if the color of the main tea is light.
Rosehip I add 5-10% to the village.

[Lichka]

Lichka, Angela

Lichka, I will definitely come.

I'll see if I succeed, then I will also drop by, because you can.

[Antonina]

Antonina,

I'll see if I succeed, then I will also drop by, because you can.

Of course, I can wait with my tea, boom to taste for three

Good morning tea makers! I read yesterday's speeches, climbed onto the cupboards for a pear. She became in the tea leaves, it seems, much lighter in 1.5 years, the smell is so-so (I also have a wild, or rather, it went wild after extreme pruning), and I really liked the taste. You really need to mix it with raspberries, although fermented in the mixture, of course, will be different.It so happened, black tea ran out (my husband is one of those stubborn men who drink only him) and both drank my mixture - raspberry-apple and cherry-apple. Today the real tea after it is so tasteless ... I ask my husband - how do you like mine, did you like it? He answered - well, I drank it! I mean, if it's absolutely nasty, I would pour it out and put the quality of the product on my mind. But a black one appeared, instantly switched to it again.

I didn’t like the apricot either, I don’t even know where it is, maybe underground with a linden tree? Here is a linden tree, such wonderful flowers, fragrant, and the tea from the leaves is just ... well, nonexistent, it has stood for two seasons, still nonexistent!

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, Lyudok, I also noticed that different varieties give completely different teas. And young leaves in tea seem to me too harsh ...
Therefore, there are still so many experiments ahead!
I need to start a notebook, write down the results

Added on Tuesday 17 Jan 2017 10:57 am

ekivoka_ipatience my friend
We add our tea to black. We gradually increase the dose of our own, and completely get off the store needle.

[Lichka]

Lichka, today my husband has already said that the purchased tea is "none at all, like water" However, he stubbornly continues to drink it, and I pour mine on the sly. And every time I drip on my brains - oh, like, I'm sorry, how I poured myself. But delicious!
I brewed a pear (pelleted game) with raspberries (fermented non-pelleted leaf). Impossible soft tea! And I tried to mix two of my mixes - apple-raspberry and apple-cherry. Surprisingly, both tastes are clearly audible, I thought the raspberries would be lost! And the general shade is quite different, although not jam. Oh, I'm starting to regret more that this summer I flew past the tea blanks!

my son here on NG gave me some kind of tea .... earthen .... said. very dense flat cake and black as earth, that's where the nasty thing is, I can still sip store tea at work, but I can't drink this one after Ivanushka, but it makes me sick ...

[ekivoka_i]

ekivoka_i, "former" tea-makers do not exist!

[Lichka]

Lichka, Anji, I did not experiment with anything: Pear, raspberry, apple, irga, hawthorn, linden, hazel, walnut (the spouse brought from the flight), blackberries, strawberries, wild strawberries, bird cherry, cherry, wild rose, rose flowers, silver goose, blackberry and raspberry, dogwood (my husband's brother brought it from Crimea), grapes of different varieties, barberry ....., probably I haven't remembered everything yet. But the best, without a doubt, is Cyprus. That's where the favorite is!

Who would argue!

young leaves in tea seem too harsh to me ...

I did the opposite, but after exposure. And botanically, it seems to me that there should be less tannins in young leaves.

tea .... earthy .... said. very dense flat bread and black as earth, that's where the nasty is

It's not nasty, you just don't know how to cook it
For our work, at one time they traveled a lot to Hong Kong and brought such tea. He is there, by the way, is considered elite and terribly expensive. We tried to brew it and drink it, and we couldn’t either, after a while we slowly threw it out.
And then I was lucky and I also went to Hong Kong on a business trip. There, my colleague and I, of course, went to a tea store and the seller showed us how to brew such tea correctly. True, on a cheaper variety (we also drank this - it smelled terribly of earth and fish).
So that's it. To get a tasty drink, the tea leaves must be rinsed with boiling water several times. Pour the tea leaves, pour boiling water, shake the kettle a little, drain. Pour boiling water over again, drain. The third boiling water can already be allowed to brew and drink. Very tasty, no fish and earth, delicate tea aroma. Try brewing your tea this way if you haven't already. For the super-elite, you can make more flushes

[SvetaI]

He is there, by the way, is considered elite and terribly expensive. We tried to brew it and drink it, and we couldn’t either, after a while we slowly threw it out.

Yes, I am ashamed to admit, but it is expensive, when my son said how much, I went nuts, for such rubbish ???

Added on Tuesday 17 Jan 2017 03:19 PM

SvetaI, Thank you, Svetochka, I'll try it today!

[Ludmila]

Ludmila,

Anzhi, I did not experiment with anything:

I didn't have time for all the teas that I wanted, and again I won't. 23 hundred square meters of land that needs to be watered, weeded and reaped from it ... And my peasants build, build and build.

Who would argue!

YAYAYAYAYA !!!

[Elena Kadiewa]

Elena Kadiewa,

Added on Tuesday 17 Jan 2017 04:11 PM

SvetaI, and I also threw out the pu-erh ... Knowing even how expensive it is ... Who would have told me how to breed it before!
Py. Sy. I continue to sniff teas of the year before last. Peach, which was terribly perfumery somehow became even nothing, like. Dry. I'll brew it later, I'll try.

YAYAYAYAYA !!!

Rainbow, what are you going to argue with?

Added on Tuesday 17 Jan 2017 4:22 pm

Pu-erh threw it out.

Exactly, Puer, Puer, I forgot the word.

Added on Tuesday 17 Jan 2017 04:23 PM

23 acres of land,

Wow, Anji, are you a landowner !?

[Lucilia]

Lucilia, Lyudochka, Helen knows

the best tea is RASPBERRY!

[Radushka]

Radushka, Oh, yes I know about it, it's not a secret, for a long time!

[lappl1]

lappl1, And where is the recipe itself? can't find something how to ferment the leaves ...

[koshka335]

lappl1, And where is the recipe itself? cant find something how to ferment the leaves.

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