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

[Yura]

although the girls, too, met my parson here quite tartly

Yura!
We were as tolerant as possible in those days!
Certainly, I also called for a constructive dialogue!
Now there are no forces for this. Yes, and such interesting and promising as you do not appear.

Yes, and such interesting and promising as you do not appear.

Wow, I haven't heard such compliments for a long time, thanks Nastya!

I haven't heard such compliments for a long time

I asked for it!

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, well, not all the same for musals, sometimes you want a shorts

Wow, I haven't heard such compliments for a long time

No, wait, it's not just compliments, but the truth! You came to the topic, read and studied yourself, responded adequately to the call for a constructive dialogue, began experimenting yourself, brought us here the most interesting experience, developments, photos and your own recipes! Yes, if at least a tenth of the readers were at least half the same as you, we would sing here with joy and interest!

[Tricia]

Tricia, well, everything, everything, I realized Closer to the body, how it grit. Soon after all, the blackberry will begin to blush in full! Didn't you think to look for her? I kind of sent you Briza, did you like it? Will you try to do it?

[Yur]

Yur, I am now in St. Petersburg and here I have no blackberry places here, unfortunately. Yes, and in the wind-rain with a two-year-old shallow in unfamiliar forests and without a car - I somehow feel uncomfortable. In Moscow. region or I would go to Tverskaya, but here everything is completely unfamiliar. And the rest are not fond of this.
I hope that we will be able to persuade the mothers-in-law to peel off the currant bushes, even though I will give you a currant benefit, there will be something to exchange for your blackberry.

there will be something to exchange for your blackberry.

Great offer! I conclude that I liked it

Yes, I liked it! I'll write in the report, honestly, I just ran around.
I owe you a report, I remember! It was easy for us to kill the heat, I hid all the teas, now I take it out and start trying again!

Can I summarize your discussion, although I did not participate in it because of the emergency in the kitchen on the preparations. But I read it. All of us, I think so, are immensely, infinitely grateful to dear Lyudmila, who made this recipe, shared with us, without hiding anything, her best practices. You need to carry a man in your arms for this! Now we, people living in different parts of Russia, are united by one wonderful deed — we are making TEA !!!! Why swear, why quarrel ??? We are doing one thing, we cannot be separated. Let's live together, guys !!! In fact, what a fascinating hobby this is, which also heals the body !!! Personally, I found everything in these comments. You type in the top line of the search that you want to know who made what tea, and everything shows. This is how I learned to insert pictures. It seems to me that it is impossible to spoil tea! How? What should I do with him ???

Personally, I found everything in these comments.

This is the truth we are talking about! Nobody thought to quarrel here

It seems to me that it is impossible to spoil tea! How? What should I do with him ???

Easy! It can be trivially easy to spoil If you do not read the forum of course I received unsuccessful attempts, especially so that I would explain what was wrong with the tea. Just grass, and no taste, I'm lying a little, the taste of wet hay was

Why swear, why quarrel ??

Who cursed? Who quarreled? We exchanged views
Truth is born in dispute tea!

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, and even the taste of hay will be corrected over time! When infused in a jar on the shelf.

and even the taste of hay will be corrected over time! When infused in a jar on the shelf.

Samples were sent in 2014 or 15th year. Not corrected over time Technological modes were most likely violated.

[Yuri K]

Oh, as soon as I didn’t spoil my tea .. and forgot the collected leaves in the bag, and put the scroll in the refrigerator for the night, then rode off to work, forgetting for the whole day ... all the same, normal, delicious tea turned out. With a sucker, only I got into a mess, it was not my tea. But who knows, the winter is long ...



Beloved of all, guess three times ... Ivanka, of course !!!



Yuri K, probably steamed-fried ??

[NESMEYANA]

NESMEYANA, Ivanka is difficult to spoil, although it can also be turned into silage)) But with wild plants and leafy - here eye and eye! These mistakes are not forgiving

probably steamed-fried ??

I will not even say, most likely not fermented correctly. The color prompted it, brownish greenish.

And besides, everyone has different tastes. I don't like harsh, strong flavors in teas. Perhaps, Yuri, some spoiled tea will seem quite bearable to me?

With a sucker, only I got into a mess, it was not my tea.

In mono, I don't even want to present it. It does not pass the batch test (my opinion). When tempered in the same way, there is no aroma, even it seemed unpleasant to me. In mixes - only blooming I take, that's the thing!

Perhaps, Yuri, some spoiled tea will seem quite bearable to me?

Hardly, as I wrote, the taste of wet hay was. Do you like hay? (just kidding)

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, yes, I did it in the mix, and didn't add much. What can I say, experience is also a useful thing, how do you know how it tastes if you don't try it yourself? I won't even think about that year if I don't like it in winter.



Yuri K, and the color was?



I wrote out Puerh from China. It's fun to try something new. Delivery is long, I don’t know when it will come. I have never tried it.

> I wrote out Puerh from China.
Good idea, thanks! Must also be ordered from the place of growth.
And I dried an apple leaf yesterday (granulated, about a daily fermentation). Today I brewed it for testing: the smell is very pleasant, the color is dark orange (amber), lovely! And the taste - well, it probably looks like Ivan tea, a little weaker. In general, I decided to insist. For a change - very much.

Here, I figured out how to compactly store:

And Biya and Katun are worth a trip to see, especially their confluence

This is what we did, great pleasure from beauty, only now there is no time to process the photos. But I did a little in the form of a tiny photo report.

Turquoise is Katun, and dark is Biya. Their merger - in the second photo in the bottom row, can be seen directly from the color.

Then I'll show you beauty

Good evening!
Now I put the mono raspberry leaf to dry.
There was a question - when laid out on pallets, I caught a slight smell of pleasant alcohol
What does it mean? Overexposed? Will it affect the taste?

In mono, I don't even want to present it. It does not pass the batch test (my opinion). When tempered in the same way, there is no aroma, even it seemed unpleasant to me.

And I really liked the sucker. It was unusually fragrant. I did it last year, at about the same time. There were very few leaves. Tumbled in a slow cooker, with different leaves, but in a separate package. Try it, maybe you will like the stewed one.

Try it, maybe you will like the stewed one.

Thank you! I make only classic teas, I don't use languor

[Linadoc]

Linadocwhat a beauty! I wish I could be there
signed in VK for one photographer, she is from Altai. I admired the Katun! and now you show.

I have a problem with a meat grinder, I bought bushings for my Axion. and they are not original. Well, I thought once they were given parts in the store, it means they will be identical.no matter how! in general, after scrolling the tea, the sleeve fell into the part in the body into which it is inserted now the body must be disassembled and pushed out

I bought bushings for my Axion. and they are not original. Well, I thought once they were given parts in the store, it means they will be identical. no matter how! in general, after scrolling the tea, the sleeve fell into the part in the body into which it is inserted now the body must be disassembled and pushed out

and what for I apologize? In the kit, it seems that almost 4 pieces of relatives are coming?

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, well, especially gifted people manage to use them up

[sweet_blondy]

sweet_blondy, (and many more smileys) Let the husband try the detail with platypuses (there is such a tool), or maybe familiar doctors have surgical clamps, it's even more convenient. Once the sleeve has failed, it means that the material is soft, nylon (like lids on a can), there is nowhere to fall deeper than the groove

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, tried it. she sits there like a glove. and not a single edge sticks out - there is nothing to cling to. only the edge of the part into which this sleeve is inserted. Yes, the material is definitely different, I realized this when, after scrolling through 1 batch of tea, I decided to let the meat grinder rest - I pulled out the working case and the sleeve remained inside + inside the sleeve the protruding parts were deformed when I pulled out the body. with my own bushings, I twisted more foliage at a time, but the bushing did not melt.

[sweet_blondy]

she sits there like a glove. and not a single edge sticks out

Naturally, it was ripped apart by the edges of the shaft there.But the material of this sleeve is difficult, but it must be pliable, I would try to squeeze the tool between the parts along the groove with light tapping in order to hook the edge of the sleeve. Although, let my husband disassemble it better, my advice is just advice I disassembled the case, there is a dear mother, everything is in solid oil, smeared like a preschooler with plasticine. Although I am a complete zero in electronics, I found the reason. One piece on the case closed on the board near the motor (transistor, resistor or condenser - figs I know), bent it slightly - all the problems are gone! And the meat grinder is not the first or even the third year. It's a pity to burn, the most successful model for our purposes! Although a noisy infection



sweet_blondy, I understood what bushings you bought, in that season, for the sake of curiosity, I was looking for where they sell on the internet. There I met just two species, these nylon light ones, and they were almost like relatives of the same color (the material is probably native plastic). You Zhen took a cheaper one, not a good fake ..... I didn't buy, I only had one dear one flew out all the time, out of stupidity (I decided to quickly push a lot of fools with a spoon handle)

the sleeve fell into the part in the body into which it is inserted now the body must be disassembled and pushed out

Yes, this is not necessary, you can simply insert the auger into the bushing and that's it. But in general, this is strange, because the fuse sleeve has an edge on the outside that prevents it from falling through. This is probably the wrong bushing. In addition, disassembling the body (which, by the way, takes 4 minutes at most) will not do anything, since the sleeve sits inside the non-separable part of the screw rotation mechanism. If you really want to take out the bushing, then you need to hook it into the spacer from the inside and pull it towards you.

Then I'll show you beauty

This is "later" and my reaction to this beauty

[Linadoc, Linochka]

Linadoc, Linochkawhat nature is beautiful!
And the photographer is a beauty!

I wanted to share my discovery (for me) this summer! I live in Altai and often go to the mountains. And in the area of ​​Belukha I picked up some herbs, thinking that it was thyme)). Since the terrain is high-mountainous, then the grasses here may look a little differently or shorter or vice versa ... Narwhal of "thyme" is tall and at home already, dried, added to Ivanushka ... Oh, what a tea it turned out! Well, magic! Then I noticed that the aroma differs from the thyme, also typed in the Altai mountains, but lower)) I got into the Internet and realized that I had taken Zizifora! Maybe someone already drank such tea, but for me it was a revelation of the summer! And with the addition of high-horned currants (just a dried leaf) collected from waterfalls and springs - this is not really a magic tea! Ivan tea did not interrupt these aromas, but added on the contrary! From the cup, the aroma spreads throughout the room! Zizifora is now my idol of fragrant herbs!

I also made raspberry-mono and apple-mono, I can't compare with Ivanushka, after that I don't feel like drinking them at all, and I don't feel much aroma. Apple tea has a funky color, and for some reason tastes like honey!

I live in Altai

Aha, I see Katun on ave!

added dried to Ivanushka.

with the addition of high-horned currants (just a dried leaf)

Yes, that's how you in Altai just call dried herbs tea. This is not tea, but possibly tea additives. They do not undergo fermentation, which means they cannot be called tea. The same spicy-aromatic herbs of the Yasnotkov family (thyme, oregano, sage, mint, catnip, ziziphora ....) after fermentation acquire a different taste and aroma. And as a spicy-aromatic additive to tea in a small percentage to the bulk of fermented raw materials can be used in dried form. But as an additive, not a complete component of tea. The taste and aroma are different. By the way, ziziphora differs significantly from thyme both in the shape, size and thickness of the leaves, and in their pubescence and aroma. The aroma is a cross between thyme and sage.
Likewise, dried currant leaves are just an additive, not tea. The scent goes away very quickly.

I also made raspberry-mono and apple-mono, you cannot compare with Ivanushka, after that I do not want to drink them at all, and the aroma is not felt strongly.

This is why I don't make mono teas. But the mixes are tastier for me than mono-Vanka. Therefore, I make mono-Vanka only at the request of some comrades and in a very limited quantity.

Likewise, dried currant leaves are just an additive, not tea. The scent goes away very quickly.

I agree that the aroma of the currant leaves that we tear in our gardens really goes away quickly. But here is a leaf that is collected from high-mountainous rivers and waterfalls is different. Here I can definitely say that the aroma has been stored for a year and has not become less, and even more concentrated. Bright, rich, without hints of greenery. When you collect it, your hands are all sticky)). Then you have to wash so that they do not stick to things. I store them and ziziphora in a jar with a tight lid. When I open it, the whole room immediately smells. The scent is so strong. In general, I noticed that the herbs in the mountains have a brighter aroma. It's a pity that getting to them is too far now - there are many bases, roads.

mixes are tastier for me than mono-Vanka. This is why

Yes, I've already mixed everything! The very first mixes that I did in July, I pushed whatever came to hand in them, delicious! And still Vanka tastes better for me! I have a lack of vanka in my body, apparently

Imagine, the day before yesterday I found Vanka, who had just begun to fluff, green, juicy, on the edge, in the shade. I collected it. There are, of course, and already dry, there are many of them, but there were also green ones.

I do mono-Vanka only at the request of some comrades and in a very limited quantity.

Who else, besides me, got hooked on your Ivanushka?

This drugs you grass in its pure form! The rest of the mixes require

[Elena Kadiewa]

who else is there, besides me, hooked on your Ivanushka

Elena KadiewaI would be addicted

Who else, besides me, got hooked on your Ivanushka?

Lena, is Ivan-tea growing at you?

She grows, but go far behind him.

And here is the promised recipe.

Fermented tea "Astringent Apple" (Linadoc)

Well, here it came in for a minute - and here a new Linin recipe is necessary - I have to read the branch again behind the leaves, I’ll have a look later - I came here with something - they brewed a daily vanechka yesterday - my husband said that from all the grass (!!!! !) - this is the most - the most and really tea like this - you have to do everything, try and choose. I did well, but I really think that a 3-liter can with his appetites is not so much
The second tea - which he also really liked and I too - pear - alder - birch. But it still costs little and made its debut for the trial a little - half a 3-liter can was made. I want to repeat it too, but my daughter has slowly halved the Pink dance (Yura, separate from her: rose: and I'm still waiting for the blackberry to turn red and think that's it ... bam ... and the second shift

and I'm still waiting for the blackberry to turn red

I'm waiting, that's about to start blushing en masse!

Hello everyone!
I sit and, you will not believe, my eyes are in a wet place! It's so nice that the Currant Benefit is doing Radushka too!
My little report:
The eldest son takes ONLY "my" tea to work. Two kinds. Pear 40% - raspberry 50% - cherry 10% and Pear 75% - black alder 20% - monarda 5% (I made 10%, it turned out to be very rich, I had to "dilute" with pear and alder).
I stopped adding cherries to garden mixes AT ALL. Well, only if someone orders. There are people to whom it smells, it interferes with me in any quantity, even the smallest. Pressing too hard on other scents. So, I make / ferment the cherries separately and use them as a flavoring. (True, I make a lot of Mojito. And with mint and lemon balm and lemon balm. There are cherries in the vein, so to speak)
Dried separately fermented rose petals. Anyone. Granulated. When roses bloomed, one could only dream of apple leaves. So, the Pink dance will be "fake" (YURA, forgive me!). I will also add this granulated pink as a flavoring additive. Well, or when you need to seduce your husband (). Very romantic pure pink tea, yes with pink liqueur, yes with apple "cheese" ...
Made somewhere a little more than 1 kg of alder mix (pear-apple-raspberry-alder)
A month and a half drought in combination with dry wind burned the leaves on the currants. I had to cut off all the not completely burnt ones. Mixed with apple leaves (a huge branch broke from the harvest) equally. It turned out 1.5 kg of finished tea. Double linking gave very good granules.
Even before the drought, I managed to make a "normal" garden mix (raspberry-garden strawberry-apple tree-pear).
By the way, cherries (Valery Chkalov) make tea not as cherry as cherries. And with a sucker, she, in general, goes well. Well, there are also raspberries (but what about without raspberries?)
If anyone remembers, I suffered last year that after fermentation, the leaves of STRAWBERRY (midnight) meadow collected with such difficulty turned into ... well, in short, I decided never to agree to this useless feat again. And in vain ... The smell of dried grass for the year was transformed into a tea (store). It is in mono version. So if anyone has a desirecomus nothing to do, you can collect it for mixing.
Ivanushka managed to grow up a little this season, once they picked it up in the forest and my husband brought a bouquet from a business trip. So, there are three batches of garden mix with 20% addition of fireweed. I don’t give it to ANYONE. Let's drink ourselves. (greedy me, yes)

I am very glad to see you all here. Both old and new. Newbies, don't be offended by old-timers! We are not evil at all, Yura, he knows! In the end, everyone can always write their accumulated questions in a personal note. BUT ... first, of course, you need to study the materiel. There are no options. With a notebook and a pen. And I already wrote a short algorithm of the technology somewhere in the topic

Here, she came, reported, calmly told everything, explained, clarified, sent ... Good girl !!!!

Girls, boys, just went home with a purchase. I took the vacuum cleaner - and I will already have it without hassle with packing meat in bags and scotch tape
The question is - can or should the tea be evacuated? So far, I have everything worth 3L cans and how vacuuming can affect the maturation of tea.

[kartinka]

kartinka, interest Ask! I will listen to what they say
Personally, I store it in 3 liters, periodically give this one, then this one. I open it, smell it, for one "let me breathe"
The vacuumator is good, as it seems to me, for those who make tea for sale, it is convenient to pack and ship. Only I don’t know, it doesn’t turn into dust under the influence of vacuum, the force of pressure influences the structure of tea.

Let's drink ourselves. (greedy me, yes)

Just like me. About the mixes with Ivanka. For us, it is a valuable, little available product

Air is needed for aging. Let it be a little, but ... (it's good that I don't have a vacuum cleaner, otherwise I would have thought too)

For us, it is a valuable, little available product

uh huh