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

[Olesya]

Girls, besides me, who else washed the leaves?

Olesya, I wash all the leaves, and the last time even in warm water, because after the rain with dust, the leaves were sticky.
I here all studied sites on our topic and found "rose jam", and it says that rose petals must first be rinsed under cold water. I did not wash the petals, but immediately dried them.

During the tea ceremony (when brewing green tea), it is recommended to drain the first brew, they say that the next one is tastier (probably we wash off the dust, or maybe something else ...)

I also have one wish, now for the New Year I want to buy a Bork teapot, but the toad chokes me so ... 15,000 rubles, these are the bastards, these capitalists ...

... Tanya, you have recently started making tea, and there are a lot of ideas. I can imagine how much you would come up with if you were with us from the very beginning.
And I don't even know what to say about the kettle. It looks like you have developed Scarlett O'Hara syndrome called "I'll Think About It Tomorrow" ...

Oh, girls ... I completely blundered, today (or rather, already yesterday) was Teacher's Day. Dear ones, HAPPY YOU !!!! You have already been wished so much ... and health, and prosperity, and happiness ... I am writing to these congratulations, and on my own I want to wish you mutual understanding ... both with colleagues and with pupils (students), their parents and of course with my family))))

Anya, thank you!

Autumn ... Yesterday we went for a walk with the dog at dusk, turned to the neighbors. There is a cherry. I - oh, and there are still a lot of leaves ... The neighbor silently gets up from the bench and leaves somewhere. A minute later, he appears with a package in one hand and a flashlight in the other, asks: should you shine, otherwise it’s hard to see? And the look is so sympathetic ... On the part of her husband, weak: you have assembled a meat grinder to take home ...
Tea is a powerful drug. Rather, its manufacture.

[Veronica]

Veronicaas I understand your neighbor, your husband, and above all else - you! It is impossible to resist the leaves, and also cherry leaves, after being planted on a tea drug. Even the assembled meat grinder will not stop! You have a good environment! Understanding! In our village, Anya (Anyuta73) and I are treated with the same kindness. And this inspires even greater tea feats ...

[Ludmila]

That's for sure Ludmila, my mother-in-law told me with such enthusiasm how she collected the leaves for me ... I found a cherry from a neighbor, and she’s dear one has not yet flown around, so she, remembering my “hunt for leaves”, could not pass by and picked up a bag. Now he is waiting for me in the freezer.

Well done Comrade Lida! Understanding mother-in-law!

Today we went to the dacha, picked up raspberries, cherries, a few leaves of a cherry and a black chokeberry, I was already picking strawberries under the snow, went so large, some kind of shaggy, then melted, and the gloves were soaked through and through, hands were frozen. Yes, I also brought red currants, in general, 4 packets of Magnets, washed the strawberries, for the first time in the whole time of making teas. In the freezer, the packages also freeze, so there is work, but the incentive-seagull will be added !!!

Lenochka, I am very glad that you managed to go to the country house and finally collect the leaves.

At my local market, they are already looking at me with suspicion.
I go up to grandmothers selling fruit, and after them: "Lady, buy apples, picked today ...", - I say to them: "That won't ..., I would ... that ...: oops: leaves nada ... from this apple tree ... "...
Like this.

[Inusya]

Inusyaand what granny? Let them bring the leaves ...for a reasonable fee ...
And I was collecting my son on the road. Stuffed his luggage with tea. He said that he was definitely being slowed down with his luggage due to the current spice orgy. But nothing happened - I checked in my luggage without incident.

Inna, well, what do they agree to bring the leaves?
After my next trip to the village, upon arrival in the city, I catch myself thinking abnormal thoughts when looking at fruit trees - I just want to tear off the leaves, but I have to restrain myself, because you can't tear it in the city. That's the same flour, then time passes and allows until the next trip. Drugs definitely.

Lord, what a blessing that I have my own trees, apple trees, pears, black, blackthorn, cherry, plum ...! But there was nothing - only feather grass! There was no shadow, there was nowhere to put the stroller with the baby. She covered it with a towel in the fields so that it would not burn down while the house was being built and the garden with a vegetable garden was laid. All planted and raised themselves. Now you remember ... and you are surprised at yourself ... And all this over tea ... with your own ... THANKS FOR THIS!

People, they don't believe, so they invite you to cut it off yourself. If they knew why, they would have switched to the tea trade long ago))))) Let it be better for them to remain a secret ...

Vikus - about my views on other people's gardens - the same! ))))

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, gave me good quality black tea, and I had an empty tea can, I poured it there, I did not remember the name. The tea is delicious, seemingly unusual, as if small veined pebbles. I drank it, and then it became interesting, what kind of leaves are there? She took it out of the teapot and looked at it. It turned out that these are shoots with 3, 5 leaves. And this escape is so twisted. How can I do that? I can not even imagine. I called a friend, they said that it was like Black Magic tea called. If I find it on the Internet, I will share it.

If they knew why, they would have switched to the tea trade long ago))))) Let it be better for them to remain a secret ...

This is unlikely ... our local grannies, no matter how I tried to involve them in my sect, in no way agree to make tea. Although they are very supportive of my hobby and let me into their gardens. They say, come in when you need to, don't ask ... And not only the older generation does not want to do this. Here are just Anyuta (Anyuta73) caught fire from a half-turn, and Julia (she wrote a couple of times in our topic). But they are Muscovites, they rarely visit the village. Therefore, I make my tea, one might say, alone. So, Inus, agree while they call. They won't compete with you.

I found Black Magic, I give a link, there is a photo and a description.
🔗

[flush]

It turned out that these are shoots with 3, 5 leaves. And this escape is so twisted. How can I do that? I can not even imagine.

Alla, in the Notes to each recipe I gave links to individual chapters of the book "Encyclopedia of Healing Tea". Everything is clearly written there about shoots and about the twisting process. Here are excerpts from this book on this matter:

The harvested top of the tea bush is the main product - flush, which is a measure of the dignity of a tea drink. The classic flush is a one-year-old shoot with two or three leaves with a bud.
Picking tea leaves Is a very time consuming process. To get one kilogram of "green gold", you need to pick 5-10 thousand leaves. In most tea-producing countries, the leaf is harvested mainly by hand. Only with manual collection can the necessary varietal conditions be met: from the surface of the tea bush and from a certain depth from the dense mass of shoots only ripe flashes of young growth, which on that day are ripe for collection, leaving old or too young ones, pluck them at a certain point on the stem - where the tanning ends and the tender upper part begins.
...Twisting the tea leaf produced in a roller, in which forces arise that cause the mass of the tea leaf to move at different speeds and form friction surfaces between adjacent sections.In places of such friction, the tea leaf is rolled up in a helical manner and the flush is dismembered into its component parts. At the same time, the forces arising in the roller form a zone of their maximum, where, basically, the cells are crushed as a result of the pressure curve.
Leaves and stems, possessing varying tenderness and strength, are gradually torn into separate parts during rolling. For a more complete separation of the sheet into fractions, two, three and four twists are used. After each of them, the tea leaf is sorted, during which the clods formed in the roller during twisting are broken, the leaf heated due to mechanical and oxidative processes is cooled, the material is divided into parts (fractions) of various tenderness and size.
If the process is carried out correctly, the number of twists and the pressing force of the press should vary depending on the variety and quality of the leaf, on the time of the season, and also depending on the results of the withering process, which allows you to get tea varieties that are distinguished by good infusion, aroma and cleaning (appearance)

So, Alla, you have tea that is quite usual for the Chinese, made from shoots, not individual leaves. And for us this tea is elite.

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, the description says that it is twisted by hand, it's hard to believe.

Alla, thanks for the link. I read it. It says that the tea is made from the leaves and the top tips (the most delicate top of the tea bush). And it was twisted by hand. I think that tips are wrapped in leaves. It is difficult to understand how to do this if there was no experience of rolling young and tender leaves of willow-herb by hand. Such leaves are spinning by hand wonderfully. This trick won't work with garden autumn leaves.

Nothing, we will live until spring, we will spin such teas from young, still sticky leaves of willow tea and garden plants. It will turn out no worse, I'm sure!
Yesterday I handed over different tea to my Moscow friend. In general, she is a connoisseur and lover of tea. Buys it in specialized stores. A friend called back today. He says he is shocked. Because he cannot imagine how this can be done. And that it is so tasty that now she will not think about which tea to brew for her - store tea or mine. She said that until mine was over, she would not touch the store. Naive! I won't let it end. I'll give you more.

Lucky friend And I'm greedy, my husband offers to treat friends to tea and I am silent. Maybe tomorrow I'll pick up the leaves from the apple tree. Time is running out, this Saturday my brother has a wedding (baking cones, cows ...) and there is no more room in the freezer

Lucky girlfriend

Olesya, I'm luckier with her! So tea is so small ...

And I am greedy, my husband offers to treat my friends to tea, and I am silent.

It has made little tea yet. Next year you will prepare a lot of tea, so the greed will evaporate ...
Olesya, I wish the young people happiness! And you have easy pre-wedding troubles!

Lyuda, thanks for the wishes I will not calm down yet this year while the leaves are hanging on the trees

I won't rest this year yet while the leaves are hanging on the trees

Well done, Olesya! The right approach!

And along the way, I calmed down, in the morning I got up, the snow lies and the trees are all bald in the city in general. We went for a walk with the child at six o'clock, it’s still dark, and there is snow on the grass, so he hasn’t walked around all his grounds, hasn’t sniffed, hasn’t sniffed all the snow, hasn’t calmed down, probably has forgotten about the snow, still small.

[drink from ivan tea with mint]

Hello everyone! I went away for a few days and missed you, sincere one Whole-Thinking Chaedelk am
She didn't tear, freeze, twist, although there are a lot of leaves there (albeit north). there was no time.
Today at work I ordered Ossetian pies for employees (the pies are awesome by the way) and they brought me 2 liters as a gift ... Don't go further ... drink from ivan tea with mint,: swoon: made according to old recipes.
(This is how you learned about my love for Ivanushka)
written: natural willow tea with the addition of mint.
P.S.(in a whisper) was affixed on my yesterday's DR, you can congratulate

[Galina Iv.]

Galina Iv., Checkmark, congratulations All the best to you!

[vvagre]

vvagre, Valentine, thank you !!!

Natural Ivan tea with mint. Perfectly eliminates thirst, tones up. Made from natural ingredients.
Structure:
Ivan tea, mint, sugar, water.

so I got the idea right away ... the drink is red, so maybe it is made from Ivan-Chayevsky honey ??? that is the question.

[Check mark, dear, happy birthday to you! May all your dreams come true! I wish you a lot of health to be enough for all your soap and tea projects. Well, and also what is dear to you!And this is for you:]

Check mark, dear, happy birthday to you! May all your dreams come true! I wish you a lot of health to be enough for all your soap and tea projects. Well, and also what is dear to you!
And this is for you:

Don't fall further ... a drink made from ivan tea with mint, made according to old recipes.

I hope you study the composition and post it to us here. Because I have a bag of willow tea in the freezer. And enough mint. I can do it if you recommend.

so I got the idea right away ... the drink is red, so maybe it is made from Ivan-Chayevsky honey ??? that is the question.

Or maybe from flowers? And I thought there was a 40 * bottle. Was it tasty?

Lyudochka, thank you dear, gifts are already in bags (hih, asked for congratulations)
And you all, too, do not be silent, we will come running for tea
Luda, I wrote the composition:
Ivan tea, mint, sugar, water.
And that's all that is written there. Everything tastes like mint, but it's sooo sweet.

40 * ?? at work low

My Internet is slow until October 11 - I have already eaten all the traffic. So while my message is being sent, several new ones are coming ...
Well, one more confirmation that Ivan-tea does not need sugar or mint ... Except. honey, of course.

40 * ?? at work low

Your work is boring ... We even in an almost chaste educational institution celebrated DR and other events not only with tea ...

Your boring job

No, Lyudochka, not boring, at work I'm all thinking about tea and talking with all of you, is that boring?

Well, one more confirmation that Ivan-tea does not need sugar or mint ...

it was mint with sweet water

Girls, I photographed the process of making acorn coffee and chicory roots. If I have time. I'll post it tomorrow, if you're interested.) By the way. it is not too late to collect even that. and other.

Ksyusha, very, very interesting! Spread it out! Thank you for remembering our interest in this coffee.
Only I have nearby oaks for some reason without acorns. We'll have to go to the forest, compete with the wild boars ... Where do you get the chicory? I haven't seen him here.

Omelchik, show the process.

Where do you get the chicory? I haven't seen him here.

We went to the dacha today, dug up with my husband along the Moskva River, next to the paths .. its darkness. It is better to dig after the rain of course. then the roots won't break, but I don't have time to wait. Now it is already dried up, at first it was difficult to identify it, but then it was normal, we got used to it. I also collected chicory leaves for a cocktail. Greens !!!

And the acorns we have this year are so large, one feast for the eyes!

We have this chicory mistletoe, but I never thought to collect it. I'm waiting for the recipe too

Girls, I will try .. I’m just leaving the day after tomorrow, I still have to pack, time is short. (

Tatyana, no one has fermented berries in our country yet. So you are the first.

I am reporting.
As I wrote earlier, I chopped the hawthorn berries in a vegetable cutter. then put it on fermentation. Two days passed, the berries were mixed with a wooden spatula 2 times a day. Today I decided that I would dry it in the oven, purely intuitively. The smell was pleasant, but a little sour.
I put a baking sheet with hawthorn in the oven at 19 o'clock. The temperature was 130. An hour later, reduced to 100, stirred every 20 minutes. Since the hawthorn was still wet enough, the temperature increased again to 130 and also turned on the upper fan.At 12 o'clock she turned off the oven, stirring again, leave it until morning.
And now I really want to write about my feelings.
I read the entire topic very carefully and even made some loose leaf tea. girls wrote about the aroma felt when it was dried. Yes, that's right, the aroma is very pleasant. But, what I feel during these five hours is JUST MAGIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At first it was the aroma of pears in crystal, marinated from red wine with a violet-strawberry hue. It was a real sunny, young autumn, with a farewell chord of the passing summer. But suddenly, everything was replaced by a crazy aroma of caramel and rum, I thought it looked like passion ....... of course, this is tango, Indian summer tango, on the edge, on takeoff, this is when you love as in last time......
I don't know how I will feel and see tomorrow, but even if it doesn’t work out, I’m not sorry at all, because it was unforgettably magical.
Here is a tea association.

But in general, observing all this splendor, I was led to the idea of ​​the following: you can ferment berries and even leaves if you first pass them through a juicer. The resulting cake is fermented, and the juice is frozen. Unfortunately, I will not have the opportunity to try it on the leaves, I think to buy viburnum at the weekend and continue my experiment.
Have you ever answered yourself the question, what is happiness? Happiness is creativity in any of its forms. I hooked almost everyone at work on a tea creation !!!!!!!!!!! Hurray, now we are all happy.

But, what I feel during these five hours is JUST MAGIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!! At first it was the aroma of pears in crystal, marinated from red wine with a violet-strawberry hue. It was a real sunny, young autumn, with a farewell chord of the outgoing summer. But suddenly, everything was replaced by a crazy aroma of caramel and rum, I thought it looked like passion ....... of course, this is tango, Indian summer tango, on the edge, on takeoff, this is when you love as in the last time ...... I do not know how I will feel and see tomorrow, but even if it doesn’t work out, I’m not sorry at all, because it was unforgettably magical. Here is a tea association.

Tanya, we are already accustomed to the crazy impressions of the smells of our tea. But we have never had such a deeply exciting report! This should be placed in large letters on the recipe page. Thank you very much for the magic associations. I was so imbued that tomorrow I will go for viburnum, and for blackberry and for everything that is still growing! You are smart!
Tanya, a big request: please take a picture of this berry tea. I'd like to see this miracle!

Girls, I will try .. I’m just leaving the day after tomorrow, I still have to pack, there’s not much time. (

Ksyusha, we will wait! While we collect acorns!

Tanya, a big request: please take a picture of this berry tea. I'd like to see this miracle!

Tomorrow I'll take a picture and I'll definitely show you all.
Girls, thank you, I'm really embarrassed .......

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, will wait!