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

[Melissa]

Lasto4ka, Svetlana, I didn't

Yes? Strange ... I think I read about this experiment ... then sorry ...



Melissa, Olga, you can make very different mixtures! There are basic "rules": apple, plum, cherry (Well, I do), apricot give a weak color and taste more neutral. Mulberry is very specific, but many people like it. Better steamed. Grapes give light tea and sourness. Pear - dark color and rich taste, aroma. Strawberries too. Currant with a gorgeous aroma. At first they were afraid to mix it with something fragrant, but Yuri tried it with cherries (apple + cm + c), it turned out super! Cherry and black chokeberry give a strong aroma. Raspberries are dark in color and astringency. These are my own trees, others can give a different result. Based on this, and "chop" your country tea. Think what you need and go. And I usually throw everything I can get in a heap! And it turns out very tasty.
Well, Radushka wrote you correctly that there are recipes. At the beginning of the topic there are a lot of them on the links. This is if you want to "like someone else", although again I repeat, the same trees in different people give a different taste

yawell, thanks. My husband offered me a blender, but I was indignant that the granules would not be aesthetic. And then you can twist them with a meat grinder, as it did not document.
Radushka, thank you, I have not read about thematic teas yet, I will definitely check it out, since there is such a topic. And of course I will read everything that you have acquired by back-breaking labor, but in winter, and now it’s a hot time, so many leaves disappear. I found 8 pieces of cherry young devievs from the neighbors yesterday - I will pick them off and put them in the freezer until I bought a meat grinder. You can freeze everything right? Radushka, and "favorite mixes" - themed teas - is a reference to "Country Tea", right ?. And thank you for sharing your favorite mixes again, I will take notes, I have already started a notebook for teas.
Lasto4ka, countrywoman, wrote everything down, remembered everything! Thanks for the science and patience, to us, beginners.

[Melissa]

Melissa, Olya, you just need to go and look at the FIRST page of the recipe. The owner of the topic put all our developments in bookmarks. Go to the recipe for tea fairies and read

Country tea (fermented) - seven in one (lappl1)

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

"Frosty tea" from conifers and leaves of natural fermentation (Linadoc)

Green tea from the leaves of garden and wild plants + Bonus - dried strawberry tails (Zachary)

Fermented tea "Mojito" from mint leaves, grapes and cherries (Lasto4ka)

Fermented tea from garden leaves with fruits and berries (Fruit tea) (Natalya Koval)

Green tea - fermentation in Brand 100 yogurt maker and Brand 701 multicooker (MariV)

Fermented tea and fiber from aromatic herbs (Linadoc)

Fermented tea "Radushka" from raspberry leaves (Radushka)

Fermented rose petal tea (kubanochka)

Fermented flower tea "Garden Mix" (MariV)

Yes, everything can be frozen and left until free time appears. You just need to wither well first.

I posted my experiments on Ivan-tea, who are interested)
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...191.0
it seems that no one reads the topic about Ivan tea anymore ..

I picked up mint the other day, dried it, kneaded it with my hands, and I'm fermenting now.
What interesting metamorphoses are taking place!
Dried - it smelled faintly.I began to vymeshivat - there was a mint aroma with a lemon. (Wild mint, xs of which several varieties, I pulled out from the garden, weed, tore leaves from sticks, I did not like the stems, they give an extraneous apah to the grass)
Now fermented - the smell of basil! Natural pesto sauce! Seasoned with olive oil and nuts, salty.
I am already harvesting mint for the second time. It smelled like candy last time.
I used to wonder how girls in raspberry tea smell pineapples. Metamorphosis

Also yesterday I was on a fishing night, I took as many as two packets of selected field mint, today I dried it up (while I was dozing after the night), put the shredded foliage in packets, the stalks were thrown away
When crafting, keep in mind that mint beats any flavor in the mix. Even the notorious cherry, which holds the record for breaking taste and aroma, cannot cope with mint, if the latter is 40% or more!

I plan to mix it with regular tea.

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, with your light hand added sage to the mix and got this fe... Awful taste. It's good that it wasn't enough. I really hope that dry fermentation will soften or remove it.

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat, my light hand for your fe ... not in the answer. What I get is being brewed and drunk with pleasure by probably a dozen people of my acquaintances and work colleagues. Analyze your mistakes, or don't make more of sage, in my recipe I wrote which botanical species I am making myself. Of the others, I don’t know what can happen, I haven’t tried it.

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, do not be offended. The taste and color, as they say ... I had a premonition that I shouldn't add it ...)) Let's wait and see how it ends.
By the way, what I also thought was mint is probably also a scent. I was going for a mint and suddenly your message. )

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat, and why should I be offended then, absolutely nothing. At the expense of the scent, I asked my friends botanists that the plant that I collect along the river bank is mint, but the scent does not grow along the banks, its habitat: "grows on light deciduous forests, forest glades, bushes ".

Yes? That plant grows along the river bank. Calmed down.

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat, the scent still differs from the mint in appearance, although it is similar to it. Look at the size of the scent flowers, their arrangement ... in mint, it is becoming more compact and smaller, by many, the flowers are smaller than the head of a pin in whorls. I showed the botanists close-ups of the parts of the smelly - they did not even show doubts, confirming that I was collecting field mint

I am with a small report. I brewed mono prunes today, it has stood for a couple of months already. We can say I was disappointed, the taste was not particularly impressed, it is not bright, there is no astringency, sweets too, just tea. But the aroma is so mad! gentle, intoxicating, due to the aroma you want to drink it more and more! Apparently the dissonance of taste and aroma confuses the table! I think he will be good in mixes!



And yes, the color is dark, Like a good black tea. No turbidity. I brewed a photo in the evening, it makes no sense to do it. I'll try to brew one of these days in the afternoon, then I'll post the photo.

I made a surprisingly good strawberry tea, although neither the leaves themselves, nor the granules smelled at all during fermentation ... the smell began to appear when drying in a pan, and the more the tea dried, the stronger it became .. The result was black, very tart tea with strawberry flavor, brewed 2 times quietly, the second time is the same black, the aroma is a bit weaker .. my tea stood in the cup night and day - it became like chefir, though the aroma has completely disappeared during this time))



but neither raspberries nor cherries have been obtained yet ... raspberries have a scent of grass, although it gave a dark color, and cherries have a strong almond smell - so to speak for an amateur ... have not tried it yet .. Maybe some kind of cherry is not the same ... I picked it up on a wild cherry in former abandoned dachas ..



and by the way, my palms hurt from the rolls ... I'm doing something wrong ... or is it everyone has such costs .. technology?))

and by the way, my palms hurt from the rolls ..

Tatyana, they are in pain. And if you do a lot, then calluses appear, and it doesn't hurt so much. Sometimes, for relief, I roll with one hand on a wooden board.

Girls, why such torment? I can understand - to make young leaves with pens, but now ... I, if not at an electric meat grinder, do it by hand.

Girls, why such torment? I can understand - to make young leaves with pens, but now ... I, if not at an electric meat grinder, do it by hand.

the meat grinder does not take my cherries - it clogs up almost immediately .. but about raspberries, I found only one recipe - with a freezer and rolls, though for some reason it didn't work out for me ..)

and by the way, my palms hurt from the rolls ..
Tatyana, they are in pain. And if you do a lot, then calluses appear, and it doesn't hurt so much. Sometimes, for relief, I roll with one hand on a wooden board.

understandable)) I hope this is useful - such as acupuncture - working out all sorts of energy points ...

[RODA]

RODA, you haven't wilted cherries, have you? This is most likely why it gets clogged. I did a great cherry, but I did something, I don't remember the horror of how I hammered the meat grinder. But I myself am to blame for this. I wanted to stage the experiment, tried to dry 1/3 of the bag in open bags with leaves, the experiment failed!

RODA, you haven't wilted cherries, have you? This is most likely why it gets clogged. I did a great cherry, but I did something, I don't remember the horror of how I hammered the meat grinder. But I myself am to blame for this. I wanted to stage the experiment, tried to dry 1/3 of the bag in open bags with leaves, the experiment failed!

Katerinka, I wilted it very well, as well as raspberries .. I have the simplest meat grinder, cast-iron, Soviet type) probably just doesn't pull, the petioles are twisted and the central veins ..

[RODA]

Need advice from experts.
I picked up the remains of raspberries today. And an apple tree. While the leaves are normal, surprisingly.
I want to steam up for the night in a cartoon. And I also want to add a bit of frozen rosehip flowers.
How can I connect them, at what stage is it better to add flowers?
The frying option is still being postponed, the grandson is visiting, and we sleep with him at the same time
Therefore, I want to steam, scroll and dry in the dryer.




RODA, my pear didn't go like that, at all.
It turned out to be plasticine. I knocked out the screw with a hammer.
Then she steamed, and with difficulty, but scrolled.
The cherries were frozen and seasoned 2 times. I defrost it and for the night at 60 degrees in a cartoon.

central veins are also twisted.

Sharpening the grate and knife is necessary.

Sharpening the grate and knife is necessary

And then there is the wear and tear of the meat grinder itself.
In the place where the auger is inserted.
Lugs wear out.
This is also bad.

Sharpening the grate and knife is necessary.

How is this done?

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat

One of these days I will make a mono cherry, let's see how it clogs))

By the way I wanted to tell about my steamed car. When the cartoon opened the smell was pleasant, but not raspberry varete as everyone writes. Cut it and put it in the dryer. I brewed it a week later. I was ready for the light tea, but that it would be horrible, no cloudy ... It tastes like grass. Outwardly I did not like it very much. I don’t know what I did wrong. It's better to just ferment it)

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat, on sandpaper is the simplest and most not traumatic. The skin is sold in hardware stores. It will be enough 120 (180) and 320 (400), which you find. The first option, a coarser one, removes the workout, the second one is more delicate, polishes removing large risks. Light I put up the video, there is nothing complicated, the main thing is to periodically change the plane a little, so that it would be evenly sharpened from all sides.

central veins are also twisted.
Sharpening the grate and knife is necessary.

in a new meat grinder also need to sharpen? bought a week ago just ...

[RODA]

RODA, but in the new, why?

[RODA]

in a new meat grinder also need to sharpen? bought a week ago in total

yes in the new, why?

On the grass, our knives dull well.
RODA, see how the meat grinder works.
I twisted the grass on my mother's 1 time and had to sharpen it. Not a new machine.
She refused to spin the tomatoes.

RODA, but in the new one, why?

so it doesn't twist .. or rather twists something, but something - no ..
However, I didn’t like the cherry anyway, but it chops the strawberries) so for now I’ll wait with the sharpening ..

Sorry, I'm new here, but my experiment seems to me to be successful, so I dare to suggest it a second time.
I put the leaves in a high container and grind it with such a blender (unfortunately, the picture is not yet allowed to be inserted, but this is an ordinary manual vertical blender)
He copes with no problem.
Then I drive the chopped mass through a meat grinder - it does not clog and twists easily. The granules are firm.

I put the leaves in a high container and grind it with such a blender (unfortunately, the picture is not yet allowed to be inserted, but this is an ordinary manual vertical blender)
He copes with no problem.
Then I drive the chopped mass through a meat grinder - it does not clog and twists easily. The granules are firm.

Before laying the leaves in a meat grinder, I tear them into pieces with my hands - it turns out like your blender

[RODA]

RODA, you will certainly forgive me, but tearing with your hands and chopping with a blender are completely different things)) do not compare)))

and what will the experienced ones say? is this acceptable? somehow I came across information that you should not grind with a blender, only a meat grinder. and to combine?
but while I have my brother's blender, I think not to use it)))

Last weekend I decided to make tea from meadow geranium - narwhal, rolled up the granules, dried it, and now it turned out that the narwala was not geranium, but a cuff
But tea is also nothing, I think it will be perfect in the mixes - the smell is a mixture of oriental spices and medicinal herbs .. you need to get used to it) and the color !!!! very rich, and with such a strength, the taste is very soft, without tea chefir ... somehow I'll post pictures ...
I still need to try to make geranium)))

RODA, of course you will forgive me, but tearing with your hands and chopping with a blender are completely different things)) do not compare)))

I forgive) this procedure helps a lot for my meat grinder)

[Yana]

Yanathanks for the hint. Now this is especially true, the foliage has become very rough, even compare with what it was a week ago. About 1.5 weeks ago, I tore a quince leaf for a child for treatment, it was still good, quite soft. And yesterday I went for tea to collect, and there you won't look without tears! Although the rain has passed, it is a little rain!



Evgeniya, I just read about your raspberries, and ran to sniff mine, it's too early to brew. No, the smell has not changed, but it has become weaker, or maybe, on the contrary, it has not yet picked up, when the tea dries out, it practically does not smell, and already with dry fermentation, the aroma returns. And here the neighbors were treating them to raspberry wine, I still thought it looked like it, but now I realized that TEA smells the same! I'll have to try to brew, see what's wrong with the dregs.

[Katerinka]

KaterinkaSteamed tea does not require dry fermentation. They drink it right away. There is no multicooker fermentation takes place.
You apparently have a different variety of raspberries))) lucky)

[Evgeniya]

Evgeniya, YES? I didn't know! I walk and wait until the month passes! I'll brew it today! Thank you.



Evgeniya, and then you twisted it in a meat grinder or with your hands? And in my opinion, at first the leaf is also frost or, or am I mistaken?

As I wanted, yesterday I put raspberries, apple trees, rose hips to steam for the night. Percentage - 70-25-5. Soared in a cartoon at 60 degrees for 9 hours, raspberries and apple trees were just withered. In the morning, at 3 o'clock, I also put only withered flowers.
The leaves turned out to be soft, scrolled normally (the son helped), the granules are small, but they turned out. Dust comes out of one raspberry.
Drying in a dryer. The aroma is all over the house, you can eat with a spoon !!!
The youth said they smelled like honey and flowers. And I can smell a delicious smell of raspberry jam and flowers.
She took off her pillowcases from the attic.Steamed pear and raspberry intensified the smell. Lemon mint barely perceptibly smells of something floral, until I catch it. The alder mix has lost the rest of the smell, it smells like hay. And I am bitter with the alder. I'll put it in jars, let it stand, it will go for supplements. We must seize the moment and collect more blackberries, cherries and pears.
While in the house there is a brute male force in the person of a son. And let the husband rest

[Katerinka]

Katerinka, I then twisted rolls and cut small. my raspberries went through both withering and hardening, yes
Podmosvichka, maybe the alder is still recovering? my teas after drying in pillowcases almost all smell like hay. but with different notes)))) then it gets better.

Can.
But with alder it's just not mine, I don't like the bitterness in tea.

[Podmosvichka]

Podmosvichkaand me and me too)



look what I got! my beloved Vanechka!
This is Irina IrVas from KhMAO sent me the roots. we also dug and planted from Bashkiria, but for some reason they do not want to emerge yet. we'll see.

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, Congratulations!

[Radushka]

Radushka, Thank you! I’m already asleep and I see how the floor of the plot will overgrow with a vanka. it will be easier for us - there is a garden planned, until the trees will grow (only planted last year). our beloved is better than weeds, which have to be cut with a trimmer)))

With such labors, I collected strawberry leaves, but I never made tea ..... I twisted it a little and that's it .. My meat grinder died on strawberries ...... It's sad, but what can you do. I have already chosen a new one, dear, but the characteristics are good. Girls, but we do not have a separate topic about meat grinders, who has what, and the rest of the utensils that help make teas? And I also want to ask, I want to try to make a mix, as they recommended to me, and not mono - cherry, strawberry, black chokeberry, maybe an apple tree or a pear. Has anyone done such a mixture? Nothing will work out or what will happen? It would be nice if somewhere in one place you could read about the girls' favorite mixes. In the topic, it seems like someone slips what is doing, but it's unrealistic to look for a huge topic.
My old lady .... Fermented tea from leaves of garden and wild plants (master class)
I want this - Fermented tea made from leaves of garden and wild plants (master class)

As for the meat grinder, I want to tell you that it is not necessary to wait for the purchase of the "right grinder". It is quite possible to get by with the usual, manual. Just don't use the newfangled, separately purchased knives. They (for the sheet) are not much better, on the contrary, they are worse and can break. The best is a standard Soviet knife, it is easier to cut and the most durable.
PS It is easier to twist a frozen sheet. After scrolling, do not be too lazy to scroll again or two, the granules will turn out better and stronger.

I’m already asleep and I see how the floor of the plot will overgrow with a vanka. it will be easier for us - there is a garden planned, until the trees will grow (only planted last year). our beloved is better than weeds, which have to be cut with a trimmer)))

I also want to move Ivan-tea to my site in the fall) I wish I could find white Ivan-tea somewhere .. I have never seen it, only in pictures

Just don't use the newfangled, separately purchased knives.

I have this:

Specially purchased. I undermine it periodically.

I put my friend on teas too - she writes that it was delicious from sea buckthorn) Now I want to do it too !!!

I have this: (... photo in the theme of the author-Svetyashka) Specially purchased. I undermine it periodically.

Just this one was successfully broken, into several pieces, with ordinary leaves. And the standard, Soviet, cuts much better, not to mention strength! It is also important to put a lattice with the correct holes, one (for the leaves) is much better than the other. Well, which one, "larger" or "smaller" determine for yourself, I have forgotten, but the difference is noticeable right away.

[kogan_]

It is also important to put a lattice with the correct holes, one (for the leaves) is much better than the other.Well, which one, "larger" or "smaller" determine for yourself, I have forgotten, but the difference is noticeable right away.

kogan_, Igor, I only go for a large one.
And the knife is the only one I use.