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

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, well, someone loves bitterness and is looking just wondering where you can attach this party in order to taste, get to know alder properly

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, they loved her for the scent)) Bitterness is a side effect, depending on what bitterness
I would not risk doing mono. And in ordinary mixes - apple + pear + something else, I would add

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, do not translate the product, Zhenechka! I tried black alder in mixes. For me (and my daughter-in-law), those with alder 20% turned out to be ideal. Well, you can take 25%, I think, but already 30% are bitter.
I made a mix - apple + strawberry + raspberry + alder, pear + apple + raspberry + alder, apple + pear + raspberry + alder and pear + strawberry + raspberry + black currant + alder. The last one with currants, I will try on Friday evening.
The mixes are delicious. If you put just a little more honey in the cup (on the tip of a spoon), the illusion of black tea is complete

I consider the first season of harvesting fermented teas closed. Should be enough for the winter

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, congratulations on the end of the tea season! Nice work!
And how delicious this tea will be in a year!

[Yuri K]

Flowers are still blooming. I was fascinated by Gaillardia: such beautiful petals, two-colored, dark red center and yellow edge. Perfect for decorating tea composition. Kosmeya is on the move.
I still hope to get some raspberry leaves!



Yuri Kand where is the tiled tea? Have you already drunk ?!

[francevna]

Yuri K, where is tiled tea? Have you already drunk ?!

but I didn’t do this, you are confusing me with someone



francevna, is unlikely to live, will drink during the cold weather

is it better to do mono for testing or some kind of proven mix?

Definitely mixes. Anyone! It goes well with everything.

For me (and my daughter-in-law), those with alder 20% turned out to be ideal.

Likewise! You can make a higher percentage of alder, but then add this mix to other mixes without alder. But the presence of alder greatly enriches the taste and aroma of any tea!

I consider the first season of harvesting fermented teas closed.

Excellent result for the first season! But it's too early to close. It's only mid-season now. All fruit plants just start to go in the course, until the leaves are thrown off. And then how not to do "Frosty tea" from conifers and leaves of natural fermentation ? There is nothing special to do, but the result is super. Those who tried my last year still remember it and wait for a new one.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, and we have deciduous mixed forests. The zone is like this, you still need to look for fir groves, pines are found, of course, but quite rare)) I close the season because of the weather, mainly, the rains and winds



Hmm ... No, all the same I will probably pick some pine needles! Well, a couple of bags of apple and pear are still in the freezer, I'll try to create

[Radushka]

Radushka, Linadoc, I understood, thanks my good!

Yuri K, good season is out! my first season was much more modest))) both in terms of volumes and in terms of knowledge.

I'm not going to close it yet, but my strength is already running out and it's hard to harvest tea and process fruits)
Yesterday I collected pear, sea buckthorn, raspberries and plums, my strawberries are poor - 1/3 of the garden has not thinned out yet. blushes with might and main. I still cherish the hope to do it)

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, Zhenya, from the moment I became infected with tea mania, all my berries are like this strippedwell-groomed Everything is cut out on time, wherever possible, mulched (so that the leaves do not get dirty and the bushes are less damaged by diseases). so, drinking tea also stimulates sadistic tendencies to develop and improve
Yuri K, it is still very early to end the tea season, Lina says correctly. In addition, you should not be afraid that there is too much tea. Trust our experience, tea is usually not enough. In addition, you will have to drink it no less than until October-November next year. Well, if it remains, it will only be tastier. My raspberry-pear 2015 from-me and a mix of sucker, cherry, raspberry and garden raspberry hybrids of the same year, only now have become especially tasty! Maybe it's true because it ends

[Radushka]

RadushkaI'm still at the very beginning of this journey
since I collect mainly in abandoned dachas, I don’t have time to do this on my own. I still have small trees. one raspberry sprawls - I pull it from the heart)
yesterday I look at black currants. the leaves begin to dry out. I tell my husband - probably it's time to cut. although in fact I just want to collect a few leaves

In addition, you should not be afraid that there is too much tea. Trust our experience, tea is usually not enough. In addition, you will have to drink it no less than until October-November next year.

It's all hard for me. I'm kidding, of course!

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, currant leaves can be easily cut off almost everything. I leave only the top pair of leaves after pruning-shortening the growth of this season. Now the formation-laying of flower (berry) buds of the next year is underway. Removing leaves does not interfere with this

[Radushka]

Radushka, how to convince my husband of this, he is even worse than me over the currants wasting away.
to be honest, I don't like my currants. one bush is normal - as it should be, the twigs are looking up, but the second is all collapsed. the parental twig is almost on the ground, and the shoots that have gone from it almost from the base fell apart from the weight in different directions. I thought they would break at the base straight - but no, they grew up all summer. told her husband - a circular support is needed - the shoots are powerful, it will begin to bear fruit - the branches will break. but in general he did not make a support
since you can already cut the leaves, then you need to urgently go, otherwise nothing will get - nature will take everything by itself))

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, find an article or video training on caring for black currant in the internet and let him read it.
Different varieties form a bush in different ways. I deliberately got myself a couple of late-variety bushes so that there were leaves for pickling cucumbers, otherwise the early varieties manage to drop them by the fall. so these bushes grew out of my height and gave a huge number of replacement shoots! Three years ago, I would have been upset and found this strain unsuitable. And now ... I even have the fact that his berries are huge, but, terribly sour and almost non-aromatic, does not interfere. But the leaves are the size of one and a half my palms! Well, the number of leaves suits me perfectly. Now, I don't remember the name of the variety ... It seems Sofievskaya

[Radushka]

Radushkaso if only someone else knew the name of the variety. took shoots from friends, they no longer remember the name of the variety. but it has a distinctive feature - very long shoots. they have a circular support. so they bend through it under the weight of the berries. right down to the ground. and begin to take root where they reached the ground) so actually the seedlings appeared in me - a friend picked a berry, lifted a branch from the ground and it broke off. and with roots already. this one also has very large leaves!

yesterday almost a heart attack did not happen. there is a black currant bush in an abandoned dacha. I come to him all summer - I will collect a few leaves, then I save from hops. and I tell him - I'll take you to my place in the fall. Yesterday my husband and I went to collect a falling pear. this currant is there next. I go and see that someone was digging something. hole in the ground. and just like a knife to the heart - have they really dug up my black currant ?! began to look for her. wow, my pretty girl is standing. very few leaves. asked her not to let anyone near her

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, transplant it already! And then they will take away! And my friend's currant, it seems, is the same variety as mine. Are the berries sour? I had a very large harvest. I collected an 8-liter bucket from one bush. And the bush is still quite young!

[Yuri K]

Yuri K
but I didn’t do this, you are confusing me with someone



exactly, confused ... I was too lazy to open the bookmark, clarify. And once I read about him in the forum for 2015, where a man shared his experience.
But now, clarifying, I came across a complaint that someone had suffocated tea in plastic buckets ... But how now, no one has such trouble?

[Radushka]

Radushka, I don't think so)) he is there with the leaves almost completely twitching by me. it does not catch the eye, intertwined with an apple tree-wild)) the rains have charged, now we have to wait until it dries a little
I don't know what the berries taste like. I write to her - does not answer today. but the fact that the berry is very large - I remember she said

Bluethroat, suffocated during fermentation or during storage?
if during storage "suffocated", then this is how I understand the under-dried tea simply was.

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat, Zhenya is right, only half-dried tea could choke! It also happened to people and moldy.

[Bluethroat]

Bluethroat, suffocated during fermentation or during storage?
if during storage "suffocated", then this is how I understand the underdried tea simply was.
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sweet blondy Yes, it was about storage. Probably under-dried. ... and I'm still afraid of the toxicity of plastic, I cling. I almost rushed to stir up my banks

[Bluethroat]

I was so afraid that I didn’t dry some tea ... at first I was looking at the jars. now calmed down - there seem to be no signs. and I keep it in pillowcases longer.
now, in pillowcases, tea is dangling because I can’t get three-liter cans. stocks out)

By the way, I still want to tell you about raspberries. my raspberry is not very fragrant. at least I think it is. no smell of raspberry jam. but in the morning I brewed tea for work - I make a mixture of fermented leaves and herbs. I open a jar of raspberries where the mixture is 21.06 and 1.07. what a scent went from her! not jam, of course, but .... there is something fruity. Now I was thinking how to describe it. came to mind - a biscuit with some kind of fruit filling. or biscuits with fruit filling. well sooooo interesting smell!



Bluethroat, store in glass jars and don't worry. I have everything in three-liter. well, there are a few smaller ones)

No, they don't promise rain tomorrow. I’ll go for a strawberry leaf! I missed something with this kind of tea

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, good luck!
I now remember with nostalgia the strawberry leaf. before the berries began to turn red, it was large and juicy (in the shade) and then everything - withered very quickly. and I did only one part of mono. but wanted more. now I'm collecting my strawberry leaves in the freezer. at least something))

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, they didn't promise us either, but at night such a strong one passed ... All plans were ruined for me

What are your thin noses. But I smell bad. All the same, she lived for a long time in the city of great chemistry, although she herself did not work there, but she had enough to crush her instinct. This is probably why I was not given information on fermented tea for a very long time. About thirty years ago I read in a book that you can make tea yourself, you need ferment... blah blah blah. And the subtleties are not described. As I remember now, I rubbed the cherry leaves ... nothing happened ... And only when the "Very Big" chemistry "died", the World of fermented tea opened to me, which I sniff with the remnants of smell. It really interferes with fermentation

[Radushka]

Radushka, it is pouring with us today, the weather is nasty .... Tomorrow it seems calm during the day, although the breeze is still gentle




sweet_blondy, I’m at the dacha, I’ll visit at least the second time this season, my mother-in-law wouldn’t have found out, otherwise I’ll have to do my work, there will be no time
But what a charm, no heat, no damn mosquito!

mother-in-law would not have found out

we WILL NOT TELL her!

mother-in-law would not have found out
we WILL NOT TELL her!

[Radushka]

Radushkafilling the gap in strawberry leaf teas. Oh, and it's dreary to collect immediately without petioles. Dry




And yet, right from the dacha across the road leading to it, in the steppe there are as many as three sucker bushes of different varieties, one with a narrow familiar leaf, two others with a wide one! And then the fool followed her with a friend to the landing specially I did not see it in a hundred meters under my nose, today I decided to see what is growing there

There is no prophet in his own country!

[Yuri K]

Yuri K,

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, everything is relative)))
I thinned out and weeded half of the garden at the same time. this is dreary)) and yesterday I went from the rest of the leaves without petioles tore off - it's much easier)
by the way, your leaves are so green and clean! I'm already half red, probably)

chipped leaves on her black currant. wow how much joy!
even on Saturday I was preparing raspberries - with 15% berry juice. interesting what the seagulls will be) I also want to make strawberries with berry juice.

your leaves are so green and clean! I'm already half red, probably)

I was also surprised, maybe because it was thickened strongly in the grass. This is a wild strawberry, degenerated. It does not give berries, but there is no one to weed out))

Yesterday my husband and I went for black alder leaves ... We came without leaves, but with two large bags of butter

no one knows, you can make tea from them?

no one knows, you can make tea from them?

Better with potatoes Although ... if you want tea from them, you will need to pre-and specifically wither / dry

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, not. The "specialists" told me that tea ... um ... they make tea from other mushrooms
so, I have already done it and will now pack it for freezing.
for the alder, I hope it will turn out next weekend.

And I collected Vanka, it seems, for the penultimate time - not only have I almost cleared the whole field (but I am humanely collecting - I do not rip off, but only take off the leaves), he has also turned yellow and reddened. Well, since the last times have already, I have already turned around, collected so much, a huge backpack. I walk so happy, but from all sides mushroom pickers with baskets - what have I gathered? Considered and so bewildered with their baskets scattered into the woods. And for Vanka, I also picked up a lot of alder, pear, apple, plum (yellow and blue) and currants. But if I purposefully picked the alder, cut the currants and also collected everything, then for plums, pears and apples I climbed to pick up fruit, and my hands pulled all the leaves. I had to balance with two bags on a ladder - for fruits and for leaves. In short, now there is something to do

Happy you! And it has been raining for a week now, it has flooded up to the ears. : nepogoda: Do not pick up any leaves or berries. Eh ... Yes, and it's cold. And in the apartment above 20 the temperature does not rise. There are leaves in the freezer, but I don’t know how to ferment with such coldness. General sadness.

[Natalie]

Natalie, so in winter you will do it! Can you imagine what scent in the middle of winter? We went through this ... we know!
Lina, don't hurt my quivering soul!

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, eeh, if you met a mushroom picker and a tea master in one person on your way, he would understand you)) you have a good catch!

and I feel that my strength is leaving me. a little more and my epic with tea will end, I counted my reserves - already more than 10 kg

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, Zhenya, 10 kg is cool! Especially when the leaves are taken, practically, with a fight

[Radushka,]

Radushka, When I thought I could not believe my eyes! is it really all me ?! and if you consider what I was actively doing somewhere until mid-July, and then significantly slowed down ... I could have cooked more))) but I am not putting an end to it yet. I still have a lot of raspberries, I will harvest it from the heart for mono tea) and I really want Lina's frosty tea. though I only have pine trees of their conifers, but nothing, I'll manage with them))

see how my vanka turns green, it seems I have time to collect leaves for some mix))




By the way, Radushka, here is my burly currant) that bush that looks decent. I went and collected the leaves

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, here! Zhenya, when the leaves begin to wrap like this, you can already remove them completely. This is the end of their life this season. But for tea - that's it! I did frosty last year. But, I like it better if unfermented pine needles are added during brewing in any mix. By the way, if mulled wine happens in winter, then the needles there will be very appropriate!

see how my vanka turns green, it seems I have time to collect leaves for some mix))

Well, nifiga yourself! Is this really him?

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, exactly

[Radushka]

Radushka, now I will know)) in general, I managed everything on time!) 2 bags not tightly packed came out. In May, I collected pine candles, cut and dried. I will try to add to tea, but I will also try frosty. I'll see how it will be with a little fermentation)

Yuri KWhat kind of doubt? this is the real Khanty-Mansi fireweed. meet
shoots and leaves are very tender, young

[Radushka]

Radushka, so it remains to find out the location of the cottage, and when the owners of the house will not be
sweet_blondy, do not keep angry and hungry dogs?

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, apparently you will have to urgently start and start up a live wire along the perimeter of the fence