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

I come home, I cut off the twigs)))
it's like cutting out a raspberry bush, bringing it home and tearing off the leaves

Now, I just don't like this to nausea! I can't stand to flutter after home

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, I know what you mean
my favorite blackberry leaves in this regard are collected easily, quickly, there is no need to sort out. came and immediately poured it onto the sheet

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, Yes sir

I did not notice this - you pick dill-parsley, and after a couple of days of storage in a bag in the refrigerator, WERE / ROTT? it's all the moon! She was in different signs of the zodiac. Sometimes they dry up, and sometimes they rot in a day. Science fucking explains nothing.

I don't know if science explains the reason, but how this happens is already known. In any living being, and plants are also living beings, the amount of juice depends on the phase of the moon. On a full moon, there is the greatest amount of juices. This explains the timing of the procurement. For example, in order for pickled vegetables to be crispy, you need to sour near the new moon. The meat, on the contrary, to be juicy, must be harvested near the full moon. This is a theory that I have repeatedly tested in practice. I think that for our purposes the leaves should be collected around the new moon. With the same amount of dry matter there is less water.

[Leonid]

And I am not only gloves, I am also in the boots of old and my husband's shirt with long sleeves, a tight apron - it is convenient to hook the package to it and the hat is deep (the kind is still the same), but in the thick of above the belt, especially behind raspberries with pruning shears, this ... It is also necessary to adapt a cradle for a small dog on its back, but she cries when I cannot be seen, but she cannot enter the thicket, she pricks her paws and collects a belly and collects bunches of ticks
My husband, by the way, has caught a bad cold since the day before yesterday - and I still had a willow and sticks - trimming from a vane from fiber - that's now all in business - I cook him a decoction - and aspirin is natural and waste-free - but it's so sorry: lol: it was thrown away. My husband was offended, he said that I was giving him any garbage instead of normal pills. But I also drink with this broth I brew raspberries, made yesterday, and from the same willow fiber and dandelion syrup, fir-tree, also there, in a cup





Leonid, I have to see how it goes

Deaochki boys. A technical question - how much tea do you need for 1 person for a year ??? About 3-5 medium-large mugs per day? Write how much you collect for yourself - no gifts. I want to orient myself with the minimum

I also ask this question. We drink tea every day, concentrated, 1 liter thermos per person per day. I roughly estimated that it took us 10 liters of dry tea for two (excluding gifts) in a year.

I'm sitting now with a mono-raspberry Radushka. I'm drying. The question arose regarding the languor of the pear. It seems like they are praising a mono pear, though I have a wild game, and although the pears themselves are rather soft, you have to catch the moment to collect, which does not always work, I liked the tea from it



Well, no one is there. .. all the same I decided to darken the pear after hardening, then I will unsubscribe what happened. You still have to go for a pear, but now something is overcast and a fine suspension-rain, it's a pity, because I could go in the evening



I’m inventing it for myself, but there’s no one .... but it’s too late to rush about - 45% pear and raspberry + 10% sticky birch. I wanted an alder, and then I left the alder, and I didn't have it.

[Lina,]

found aaaaa! Well, I finally found it! since last summer we have been riding to the neighboring region looking for a vanka.and today the efforts have been crowned with success! several edges between dense plantings. Certainly not fireweed meadows up to the horizon, but at one time I could not collect everything I found - for me this is already good! in general, to say that I'm happy - to say nothing! I do not know how much I collected) I will weigh it in a withered form. but there are tea mixes - already good! and I also didn’t break the stems completely, but collected the middle part. so that more leaves will grow and then also for flowers I will

and also gathered alder leaves. I would like to say about it separately. last year I already collected it in August. mature hard leaves. landing on the sunny side was. and was somehow disappointed. alder did not impress me. I added one to the mix and that's it.
yesterday I collected young soft leaves. grow in partial shade. and here I realized what an alder is - a thick, floral-honey aroma already in a pillowcase after a fall, I will start making friends with an alder this year. even the husband was impressed!

and I also seem to have found a nut tree. the leaves are very similar to my hazel. only larger. shaggy leaves. Lina, it's a nut, right?

so, and another question about the streamers. it's a goat willow right? : mail1: drove to the dacha - I look along the road the boys are breaking branches by the tree. I am to my husband - wait wait! I run out looking - it looks like a goat)) I asked to cut off a twig too))
pleasant sour smell when rubbed




kartinka, why are you so nervous. tea-making has no clear framework and boundaries - there is everyone who knows how. there are, of course, general recommendations, but they also leave and praise tea. try, experiment, fill your bumps. no one will do it for you
I can't say anything about a pear - it didn't work out for me)

[sweet_blondy]

It was I who decided to post my small reserves for now. And then everyone is taking pictures, but I have no time these are my seagulls, and fiber (slowly accumulating in the bank) jars, you can only smell. And then, how are the little hands here at home - first, let them smell, then - let them try! But I won't! Will wait a month! : sk-izm: Although she herself slowly brewed at night after drying a little, and there is a taste and smell, but not yet in force, therefore, I am flint! Everything is still covered with a blanket. Small-leaved only Radushka (it is necessary to finish it already, otherwise only one and a half 3l cans and a vanechka with a peony) Mixes, it generally smells like a dump of head, and I'm soooo glad that it turned out




sweet_blondy, well, everyone has their own joys! Congratulations on Vanya! And I still can't get to the goat willow - I went around everything, everywhere only weeping but with slightly different leaves ..: girl_cray: only it seems to me it's not quite her, goats have leaves like gray alder, (only the toe seems to be to the side - judging by the description and the picture in my books) -similar, and maybe she. ... I was already desperate to find her, although she should probably be, but with alder - until I met her - now I see her everywhere
I sit and write in a soooo smell - One bath is fermented, and the second is dried

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, Congratulations! This is a find for all finds

Well, it's me again. With two news. First, with the one that left such a residue that, at least cry. We went on business to a friend, casually talked about the teas that I make, the verdict, I have nothing to do, or there is no money for tea, now it’s not a war to eat grass. In short, they talked, as if by the way, differently, and turned the conversation to another topic. I didn’t even begin to explain anything, but even my husband casually mumbled that, they say, it’s kind of useful ... but the point is that the child would not be amused, if only it would be specifically busy. Such a sediment - I don't even want to ask him to go after an alder pear. This is how you live, you think you know a person ... So, like this, I spoke out. The second news is that I am sitting in the kitchen now, a pear-raspberry-sticky birch tree has poured. I fry it, I will dry it soon. The smell, I can tell you, is something extraordinary. At first it smelled like raspberry jam, then duchess caramels, and even those. .. and now it smells of freshness and raspberries and duchess. Moreover, the smell changes like waves.Lina wrote that alder smells like white flowers - unfortunately, I don't know what kind of smell it is, but sometimes something floral is imperceptible, ... or fruity, but not raspberries or pears - that's right, there is no alder in the composition, but alder and birch are from the same family, so I think, maybe these are white flowers? I don't understand, and smells with plumes. Of course, for you experienced, this is in the order of things, but I am in such admiration that words cannot convey. I will try, of course, alone, I won't even let my husband smell a little dog, I'll hide it after drying, let it infuse as it should. I also made hair macho, well, like, the recipe was hair, and what happened, we will assume that it happened. The smell from the hair is just tea-like, but expensive black tea. I was afraid to dry out, maybe I took it off a little earlier. I also twisted the balls - for testing, it turned out, of course, a little, a few things, this is for a small jar, more for the view.


And this is stewed raspberry-pear-birch

[kartinka]

kartinka, Marina, well, what can you say?
If not all of us, then ... many ... found themselves in a situation where others either shrug their shoulders, or shake their heads, or twist their fingers at their temples.
Yes, everything can be bought. Well, almost everything. And, tell me, is it possible to buy the tea we make? Not impersonal, soulless, made for profit, but joyful, sincere, positive and prepared with LOVE for yourself, your loved ones, relatives and friends!
Why is even the restaurant borscht (not only table borscht) not as tasty as the one that grandma / mom cooks? Even if it is, as my grandma said, empty?
I'm not even talking about the fact that any mass production of plant products involves the use of pesticides. Otherwise, the risks of crop loss are very high.
Of course, living on an environmentally unclean planet, we cannot expect absolutely pure tea. But, nothing was specially added there!
Speaking of consumption volume ... It is different for everyone. Depends on preference. Well, different tea collections take up different volumes and weights. For example, I only drink brewed tea once. And the spouse likes to brew a couple of times. During a cold, you drink much more than just like that.



kartinka, Marina, your "macho" during storage will be enriched with a special Ivanchain aroma! Gotta be patient

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, Thank you! you, like no one else, understand how joyful the event is! probably still Radushka, will understand: D the others seem to have no shortage of Ivan-tea))

kartinka, dont be upset. this is normal. someone is ready to buy stuffed chicken in the store, and someone grows himself. some eat sausages and sausage, while others buy homemade meat from friends. to each his own. the main thing is that you yourself like what you get. well, to my husband of course))
you have good seagulls) considering that it is only the beginning of the season) prepare all kinds of different containers

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, Evgeniya,

Thank you girls! that's why - I have already noticed not only with tea - why among my friends there is no one who would sincerely support and start it himself, although, paradoxically, they buy eco products in the store. And it’s not a matter of time — if necessary — there is time. I'm so glad I came across the forum! Now there are so many like-minded people! And the topics are great. Before, I didn't even think about the fact that you can do almost everything at home. Thank you for the patience and experience you share.

buy eco products in the store

if they really were IVF ...

I was a very young tea-maker, only now I am starting, even at a beautiful age, a pensioner with experience, but I was so carried away. Something turns out, somewhere bumps filled, but how much joy when it turned out. At me, too, everyone at the temple is twisting, and the same, "Whatever the child does not amuse himself," but I do not care. I get great pleasure from the process. Thanks to our favorite site, I do a lot with my own hands. I love our site and all the residents of the site very much. Thank you so much for everything you give, for your friendliness and openness.Now I have 8 types of tea and in the freezer there are several packages of different preparations, and my husband laughs at me that I behave like a maniac in the forest or in the field, look at everything that can be useful in tea making, but patiently accompanies me on all trips through abandoned vegetable gardens, fields, forests. And the whole summer is ahead !!! The beauty!!! It's a pity my friends were not carried away by this business, and will not get carried away, despite the fact that they will drink my tea with pleasure.

[liusia]

liusia, Ludmila, the main thing is that they drink tea with pleasure!

[liusia]

liusia, Ludmila, the main thing is that they drink tea with pleasure!

Even how they drink and eat cooked self-made. And they don't want to, but there are no problems with gifts. In a beautiful jar, different petals and that's it !!!

[liusia]

liusia, Ludmila, I am preparing a prefabricated gift for my friend - rose petal tea, rose petal liqueur, sachet with dry rose petals. The sachet will have an embroidery - a rose, and a jar of tea and a bottle (small) of liquor will be decoupage in the same style

Good evening everyone! And I returned from the village empty yesterday. Fireweed is full, but all wet. The rains are pouring and pouring ...
Good people, tell me, are thorns and thorns the same thing? Young shoots of blackthorns are no less than fireweed. Can its leaves be used for tea?

[Tashenka]

tell me, thorns and thorns are the same?

Tashenka, well, like a thorn is a plant, and a blackthorn is an array of thorns According to the voting at the beginning of the topic, it turns out that 7 (0.7%) members of the forum liked the preparation.

[Tashenka]

Tashenka, Natalia., I do not know. Here on HP I came across what is called a natural hybrid of a plum and a thorn. We call him hardy. Fine cream (or very coarse teren). It tastes like terry, but without its caustic acid and astringency. Everything is ... much softer. Teren is a bush. Ternoslum is a low (usually) tree.
Thorny shoots with very small leaves, while thorny shoots have large leaves.
Mono-tea was made for the first time (from thorny plums). Which one came out, I don't know. The groin is nice. But, with a strong sourness.
And in mixes I use all three seasons. Doesn't bother anyone. But, I don't take such leaves more than 10-15%



Yuri K, thorns and thorns are different flavors (I won't look for Latin, for the life of me!)

thorns and thorns are different scents

And I do not prove otherwise
I know that the Thorn is a wild berry thorny bush. And Ternosliv is a cultivated hybrid of a turnip with a plum.
Last year I made a compote from thorny plums for the winter - a great thing! You can't get that from a blackthorn, it's too vigorous, there is no mating and pulp.
Thorny in the palms of my daughter)) The turn would fit three times more.

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, I marin small tomatoes with thorny or mirabelle instead of vinegar

[Radushka]

Radushka, cool)) And I just found an abandoned bush all sprinkled, abandoned summer cottages there many years ago))
But I went for a leaf gathering - I found a depressing thing, this year, apparently, I was left without sea buckthorn - the bushes were frozen or something, they stand naked, without foliage. And the blackberry is the same (((

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, sorry...

I know thirsty. It is tasty. And this one has rather small berries, they knit. We bought an abandoned lot, after alcoholics. Uprooted everything that was possible and needed. There are old curves of plum, apple tree and chokeberry. But these (thorny) bushes climb all over the site. And maples. Well, nettles, runny, fireweed, plantain ... So I think, at least the foliage from the bushes would be used.

What do you think is more fragrant?

Yes, the strength is about the same, but the tones are different. Stew is sweeter, warmer, it smells more spicy, it gives more tea with jam. And the fermented mix is ​​more fresh, floral-fruity aroma, less sweet, less spicy, lighter and a little more herbal or something.

I decided to darken the pear after hardening

Well, I wrote many times that stewed pear, especially after hardening according to Zakhar - well, clean duchess! I really love to simmer her with raspberries and alder

it's a nut, right?

Is very similar . You can often find old nuts there, look.

looks like a goat

It looks like it too. You brew a couple of leaves. There the taste is grassy at first, and then suddenly the sweetness is slightly tart, without bitterness.

Good evening everyone! My jam season has begun, and tea is still in between. But the raw materials are harvested))) everything is in business - strawberry tails (thanks to Zakhariy), roses dry the petals, twist them into mixes, thinned dogwood - leaves are good. Today I made prunes-currants-dogwood-strawberries-rose-strawberry tails. The aroma turned out to be multifaceted)

at least the foliage from the bushes would be used.

I have this thorn rather small, sour, although I saw at Zakhar in the Crimea even smaller and completely sour-grassy in the mountains. So I think that he is a thorny one. It grows like a weed on the site, I cut it, cut it down, mow it, and it grows again. Just the other day I fought with him again, shades the greenhouse and sprouted inside the greenhouse. In short, I cut down 4 large thorns, sawed the trunks for firewood, and decided to put the branches straight with green unripe berries for tea.

Roly is full. Alder too.

Made a mix of Vanka + blackthorn + alder + raspberry from 4.5 kg of raw materials. I haven't tried the taste yet, but the aroma is impressive. From the thorns, notes of amaretto appeared.
Yes, at the very beginning my meat grinder, 12-year-old Bimatek, grunted. I disassembled it - there the gear of the main mechanism, plastic, not the sleeve, but the mechanism, flew apart. Cannot be restored.

She took out a rarity, still without a knife, a trophy, German. But she refused to chew.

As a result, I tempered everything according to Zakhar, brought it home and played it at home. I ordered and received a new meat grinder, Axion. I'll take you to the dacha.
All the pictures from my mobile, I forgot to take the camera down.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, on top of dry vanechka and stewed raspberry / pear / sticky birch 45/45/10. The smell of duchesse was thick at times, even if you cut it, I really want to make a trio with alder and a pear-alder duet. Which is better % ? I planned for a trio 50 pear and 25 each raspberry, alder. The duo thought to do it in half.

I am preparing a prefab gift for my friend - rose petal tea, rose petal liqueur, sachet with dry rose petals

[kartinka]

kartinka, Marinochka, tell me please, did you languish in the Shteba leaves at 60 *, in the bowl itself and in which one, or in the bowl and in the Shteba? I fermented the young tops of flower Ivan tea, at 30 * 4 hours in a ceramic pot. As I understood, it is not necessary to cover with a wet rag.

rose petal tea, rose petal liqueur, dry rose petal sachet. The sachet will have an embroidery - a rose, and a jar of tea and a bottle (small) of liquor will be decoupage in the same style

Well, very cool. There is nothing to make pink liqueur, I only have Limoncello, like a real one, so you can put it in a beautiful bottle and decoupage in the same style. And it remains for the sachet to learn how to do it.

grunt my meat grinder, 12-year-old Bimatek. I disassembled it - there the gear of the main mechanism, plastic, not the sleeve, but the mechanism, flew apart. Cannot be restored.

The link cannot be dropped.

Online store X-Part - Spare parts for household and industrial equipment. Leading gear for meat grinder BIMATEK D-62 / 32mm (10119)

Pink liquor is nothing to do, ...

And interestingly, from rosehip petals or tops (flowers) of willow tea will turn out?

And interestingly, from rosehip petals or tops (flowers) of willow tea will turn out?

I have never done it. Now brewers have become such, we can only lick a glass. I make Limoncello using alcohol from lemon zest, and men respect him too ..

You can often find old nuts there, look

looked - but did not see. although the main thing was to find Vanka, so maybe she looked inattentively))

You brew a couple of leaves. There the taste is grassy at first, and then suddenly the sweetness is slightly tart, without bitterness

yeah, got it. Thank you so much!!!

Roly is full.

oh what a beauty !!!!

and I decided to put the branches right with green unripe berries for tea

so so ... something new)) tore off the leaves from the branches or are they all together?))) maybe I understand too literally?))

Made a mix of Vanka + blackthorn + alder + raspberry from 4.5 kg of raw materials. I haven't tried the taste yet, but the aroma is impressive

when you write the size of your production like this, I feel like a young tea
Lin, did you temper all the ingredients or just dry them?

[Tashenka]

Tashenka, Natalia., fireweed in tea, nettles in green fertilizer (ferment), drip into stew and "poor" pies.

it remains for sasha to learn how to do

sachet - such a bag ... made of linen, or burlap (it's better from it). Tied with a beautiful ribbon. You don't need to embroider, of course




lily_a, it turns out beautifully pink liqueur from rosehip petals! They're fragrant! Well, the color will be softer, of course. But, the main thing in liquor is tail taste!



Linadoc, my hand does not rise to torment Vanka! In vain?

[Marine]

trio with alder and pear-alder duet. Which is better % ?

Marine, I think a trio - pear 40, alder and raspberry 30% each. Duet - pear 70%, alder 30%.

Spare parts for household and industrial equipment

Thank you! I will consider, but next time! Now I am happy with the purchase of a new meat grinder with all the additional personal belongings that come in handy at my dacha. And at such a bargain price.

Did you tear off the leaves from the branches or are they all together?)

Of course I did! I try not to let twigs and cuttings into tea, this lowers the grade of tea. And I have only the highest grade tea!

did you temper all the components or just dry?

I dried everything and hardened it together. And I must say, Vanka is super frost-resistant, his freezer has hardly changed in any way

my hand does not rise to torment Vanka! In vain?

I also resisted for a long time internally! But the interest of the incorrigible experimenter won out. The result is like green tea, one to one! I'm glad .

Cool, you alone (!) Noticed this moment What does it mean, the trained eye of an experienced tea-maker

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, Linochka ... I just reread your posts several times ... in search of inspiration, so to speak.
I will not torment Vanka yet. I have too little of it. Not enough for all the bungalows. BUT ... I'll remember the information.
By the way, under the spoiler, the question is not about tea, but "for tea"

I don't know, maybe who did it, or maybe you, as a lover of spicy-aromatic ... I have a lot of strawberries that are not marketable. I thought, what if you cook it with the addition of mint? Have you tried it?

I'm looking for advice.
Help me choose a meat grinder so that she can easily spin the leaves. And then I have been lying since last year. My husband has pressure, but I don't have the strength to do the usual.

[lily_a]

..... I have a lot of strawberries that are not marketable. I thought, what if you cook it with the addition of mint?

We don't have a lot of strawberries. But if there were: 3 parts of the berry +1 part of the sand, beat with a blender and freeze (in a bag placed in a container, to get a block out of the container and stack in the freezer); dry for chips (you need to cut and dryer).

lily_a, it turns out beautifully pink liqueur from rosehip petals! They're fragrant! Well, the color will be softer, of course. But, the main thing in liquor is taste!

Or maybe toss it for the color of a currant or blackberry?

[liusia]

liusia, I am right in the stem bowl - and I languished both in steel and in Teflon - in steel it is probably better - it will not be scratched for sure, although, what seems to be scratching here, but I cut off all unnecessary (cuttings, snails and hard veins) before laying - I pulled out of the freezer-hardening-while I look at everything-they are already soft. I folded the leaves, pressed the plate with my hand and on top, pressed it down with the plate, cover it with a lid, the valve is open
Podmosvichka, I was advised by the axion, while I went to the store, they were dismantled, while I was twisting on my daughter's (for now, one), or my husband on the manual (that would have taken part) axion until the store came - they were waiting for the delivery, can anyone else advise
Linadoc, head - two ears - I ask, but I already have such tea, I went through cans today, I add. I decided to pack in 3 liters of what is a lot, the rest of the mixes - as it turns out. It is in the same relationship with alder! -40 + 30 + 30. How did you forget? And I also think, like the smell of duchess is familiar: girl_red: I'll have to try.
Found a little alder, 300 grams-We urgently need to go
And how does alder behave with cherries and vanechka?

[kartinka]

kartinka, yes, I also tend to Axion, but there are a lot of them, I can’t make up my mind, I want both cheap and angry.

[Podmosvichka]

Podmosvichka, I watched the simplest with a reverse, without grater attachments

[Radushka]

My Axion has already experienced 3 tea harvesting seasons. Last year, a plastic piece came off (I don’t remember what it’s called!), But there are several of them in the kit, they change at a time! I took mine fully equipped, I just needed it.
The meat grinder is great!



Radushka, and what kind of "poor" pies?
I shove nettles wherever possible: into fertilizer, and into mulch (until it is seeded), .... But there is SO MUCH of it! More only dreaminess. And I can't even imagine how to get rid of this "wealth"

Made a mix vanka + thorn + alder + raspberry

Vanka is darkness, I will rip off all the thorns, and I will climb to the abandoned area by raspberries to the neighbors. But we don't have alder ...

[kartinka]

kartinka, Marina, thank you very much!!! Well, here's another job for Stebus. She's a hard worker !!!!

[Anyuta]

Anyuta, about the question "for tea" - do it, it's very tasty, just add a little lemon, then it's a bomb!
I even put mint in vegetable jam, it comes out amazingly

I lean towards Axion

Also on Axion I twist I twist

do it, very tasty

Yes, Mont General!