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

Well wow pizza! This is a pizza place! No, well, if everyone gets together and a piece, two or three, then it seems as if she was not there ... But that later, when they get together. And now - a thing! On Saturday, Saturday, too, is just as big! For the whole baking sheet! Better two ...

Galya, I have had a house in the village since 2000. Almost nothing grew. The last 3 years have changed the approach to the cultivation system radically, things have gone well. It even ran. In terms of harvest, she caught up and overtook her neighbors. And this year I even had free time.
I bake apples in a slow cooker, I think how long they will be baked for the first time in MV ... And I want tea again. I'll go get a tea maker ... I'll warm up.

Better two

Yes, there is never too much pizza. Everything that is not nailed is eaten

changed the approach to the cultivation system

Everything is in our hands, there would be desire and knowledge

[paramed1]

paramed1, Veronica, what beautiful sunflowers - I suppose the petals for tea, I have such flowers once grown by themselves
I also want pizza - how big

[Valentine]

Girls, hello! I got busy today, just came in and was stunned - they wrote three pages! Everything is terribly interesting - about the vegetable garden, and about seeds, and about pizzas with bread. Well, for the sake of decency about tea a little. Well done ...
Valentine, the pizza is awesome. And I also made pizza today. And baked cookies.
Girls, is it too early to have seeds? And I go to the market right in the season and buy what I liked. The approach, of course, is not correct. But I haven't complained about the harvest yet. Only the seedlings of tomatoes and peppers I cannot grow myself. So neighbors or relatives usually share seedlings with me.
Well, since we are bragging, then I will also show today's pizza and cookies:

Sunny cookies, why are they baking pizza, and I will also bake on the weekend Lyudochka the Internet is a terrible force, lose seeds and you can buy there - my husband I am not nervous, but expenses have increased. I need to buy a snakehead and tarragon, and mine also dug up lavender, so I need to stock it up again. I have grown echinacea from seeds (small, the beauty has not taken it for tea yet) and northern bergamot, we fermented it with mint (we forget its name all the time, we wrote about it). I already have a decent bush. I also have a small Lakonos bush - it grows very slowly - is it interesting for tea?

Oksana, these sunflowers grew 2.5 m high and 40 cm in diameter.My eldest niece stuffed a cone, maneuvered between the beds and met with a bent basket, and that was already in early August ...
Lyudmila, now we have everything seeds, well, almost everything we want. And in the season there are always urgent matters, and you grab what you get.
I also bought a snakehead, lemon balm, I'll put it in tea. I always sow cornflowers. I was also inspired by the recipe for canned chard and bought a multi-colored one. Fortunately, there is enough space.

I have a small Lakonos bush - growing very slowly

And I don't even know that. Lina and Veronica know everything, you have to ask them.

Lyudochka the Internet is a terrible force, lose seeds and you can buy there - husband I am not nervous, but expenses have increased.

That's for sure, with seeds so - you see and you want to buy everything.

Sunny cookies,

Thank you, Ksyusha. And very tasty. This is SHEKER CHUREK in ghee.

seeds now have everything, well, almost everything you want. And in the season there are always urgent matters, and you grab what you get.

I am so rarely in the city that I succeed - I take what I have.Although in the season we have a very large selection. Yes, and I ask my husband to buy most of the seeds - he goes to the city to shop.

[lappl1]

lappl1, Luda, "Phytolaka seem American" or Lakonos is a very curious plant, I don't remember what is poisonous in it, but the fruits are edible, I see him sour and cold. Beautiful bushes, I bought a sprout from my grandmother.
paramed1, Veronica, I will plant cornflowers for tea next year. And you can put cucumbers on such huge sunflowers
Luda means seeds on the Internet must be ordered-hee-hee there is a huge selection

Lakonos is a very curious plant, I don't remember what is poisonous in it

Googled about him.

Side effects of the American lakonos. Overdose is very dangerous. Its symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, headache, speech impairment, paralysis, possible cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest. And for medicinal purposes, the roots are used.

No, it's scary to plant. Well, if only for beauty ...

Lakonos, aka phytolacca, is poisonous, contains an alkaloid, I forgot the name, something like phytolactin ... You don't need tea. But still a medicinal plant. Ours is less medicinal, the climate is not the same. They love it very much in China, but a slightly different look. All parts of the plant are poisonous, do not eat berries! Well, if only one or two, it will help to regulate the pressure .. If a handful, it is fraught with severe indigestion. True, the roots are more poisonous, so do not chew the roots!

SHEKER CHUREK on ghee

Well, of course, baked cookies already salivated from one sight, and jammed the recipe?

[paramed1]

paramed1, ha-ha well, he didn't bloom with me, no, I'm lying once bloomed, but there were no fruits; I was waiting for the berries, I wanted to try them. Yes, I remembered a poisonous medicinal plant, you can use it as a dye - that's what I was going to paint with it -: girl-th: I don't remember!
What we, women, are not permanent, because there was a fix idea - I really wanted to plant Lakonos, I found it, planted it, and for which I have already forgotten!
Then the novelty - I want to plant a hibiscus, I saw it in the summer - very beautiful! Especially with red flowers.

[Irina]

Irina, did not pinch. You are welcome:

Products:
Ghee 1 tbsp.
Granulated sugar 1 tbsp.
Flour 3 tbsp.
Eggs 2 pcs.
Yolk 1 pc.
Cooking method:
1. Melt butter and mix with sugar with a wooden spatula.
2. Add eggs and stir again.
3. Gradually adding flour, knead a soft dough, transfer to a bag and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
4. Divide the dough into 16-20 pieces and roll into balls.
5. Flatten each ball. Dip your finger into the yolk and place it in the center of each cookie.
6. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Do not brown!

[Oksana]

After all, there was a fix idea - I really wanted to plant Lakonos, I found it, planted it, and for which I had already forgotten!

Oksana, you just don’t let the kids near him.

Thank you!!!!! I will definitely bake! And in the center is it a dot from the yolk?

And I thought there was jam? Thank you!
I’m not already big, and she’s a veterinarian, she’s not interested in herbs anymore!

And in the center is it a dot from the yolk?

Yes, Ira, from the yolk. Very delicate cookies, they just melt in your mouth ...

[Irina]

Irina, Oksana, bake for health, you will like it.

I’m not already big, and she’s a veterinarian, she’s not interested in herbs anymore!

And I thought that you were still quite a girl, and you have an adult child ...

Of course, I'm eighteen, the rest months

I'm eighteen, the rest is months

So we are all eighteen then. .. And the months and do not boom ...

of course! Why count them? There are always twelve of them, and now with tea in general, we will go for a decrease.

[Oksana]

Oksana,

SHAKER CHUREK in ghee.

Lyudochka recipe separately. Already needed.

Oksana, and I have a baby and his wife are veterinarians! He has already opened two clinics ... And he put his sister in to help himself, he is a director, and my daughter runs the money. And the daughter-in-law brings up the children. And what did you study?

Tonya, we need to see if we have this recipe.
looked - there is https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=109419.0
The recipe is slightly different. It even seems to me that there are more magnificent cookies. only for so long I hardly will beat butter with sugar 25 - 30 minutes. Yes, and I last used ghee. As we buy the oil, I will take pictures, and you can put up a recipe.

And the daughter-in-law brings up the children. And what did you study?

Well, how did you study? It will also come in handy - it will bring up children, but there is a specialty. Maybe he'll still go to work ...

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, will not work. She was a pure theorist, but now she doesn't. Okay, we'll figure it out. Let it help me to pull and dry the leaves, otherwise I want to drink tea, but I want help.
I like strawberry tea more and more. As time goes on, the aroma intensifies.

Let it help me to pull and dry the leaves, otherwise I want to drink tea, but I want help.

It is right! Tea for two is more fun to make ...

I like strawberry tea more and more.

Yes, the strawberry is good! Only I didn’t do much of it this year ... It's just that I got carried away with the "Village" ...

[brewing tea]

Girls, let's talk about brewing tea... INFA from the same "Site about tea" from Shumakov:
Tea brewing - this is one of the basic life skills, but for some reason, some brewers have tea that is very tasty, while others - utterly disgusting. The most versatile recipe for making delicious tea consists of 6 steps:
1. Boil water.
2. We warm the teapot.
3. Fill in the tea leaves.
4. Pour boiling water over and stir.
5. We insist.
6. We pour.
(There is a lot of text, so I broke it into parts. Today - oh boiling water for tea.)

STEP 1 - Boil the right water in the right kettle for water. The most important point here is the water temperature.
In general, there is three stages of boiling water.

At the FIRST stage the water approaches the boiling point only at the bottom of the kettle. In such boiling water, only individual small bubbles slip through, the bulk of the small bubbles seem to "stick" to the walls of the kettle. In the right teapot or samovar the water at this stage begins to "sing" - it is muffled, basso and quite quietly making noise. The Chinese call this stage "fisheye".



At the SECOND stage boiling in water, the lower layers of already boiling water and the upper layers of still boiling water begin to actively mix. At this stage, all the water is permeated with small bubbles, which rush upward in a kind of "cloud". Many of these bubbles are very small in size, which is why the boiling water seems to turn white and cloudy, and from the side it very much resembles a bubbling spring. This "second state" (in China, this water is called "white key") Boiling water has unique physical and chemical properties and best for brewing tea (especially unfermented - white and green, and semi-fermented - oolong).



In the correct teapot or samovar, the water at this stage begins to "make noise" - shum of water becomes louder and more sonorous, and the tone of this noise becomes higher; the kettle, like an airplane, seems to begin to "take off". We add that this boiling stage is usually the loudest.

At the THIRD stage boiling, the entire mass of water evenly warms up to about 100 degrees and begins to boil intensively. Large bubbles appear on the water, the water bubbles, splashes, the kettle starts to "spit", and thick steam pours out of its spout.



Interestingly, at this stage the intensity of the noise is already decreasing, the kettle seems to "lose its voice"; only the bubbling of bubbles and the quiet hiss of steam are audible.
In general, actually it is better not to bring water to a boil for brewing tea, since such water is considered to be boiled over and impairs the taste of the tea. Even if you slept through the best stage of the "white key", then try to turn off the kettle brought to the third stage of the boil as soon as possible. It is best if after that you let it cool down a bit (2-4 minutes), and you can safely brew.In the third stage of boiling (or slightly cooled) water is perfectly acceptable for brewing fermented (black) tea, but not suitable for brewing white or green teas.
Let me remind you that boiling water is one of the ways to disinfect it. That is why, from childhood, the thought that "water must be boiled properly" was hammered into us. In principle, this is true, but if you want to drink really high-quality tea, then take care of good water in advance (see) and do not overboil it.
Usually, when brewing tea, a suitable water temperature is chosen "by eye" - according to external signs (noise of a kettle, boiling time, etc.; + experience, + intuition). But if you have the opportunity to stand near a kettle with a thermometer, then for different types of tea, experts recommend water of different temperatures:
A) Black (fully fermented) tea - 90-95C;
B) Green (unfermented) tea - 70-80C;
B) White (unfermented) tea - 65-75C;
D) Brewing oolong teas (semi-fermented teas) depends on the degree of fermentation of a particular variety.
Of course, a tea-man standing by a teapot with a thermometer (such thermometers, by the way, exist) will most of all resemble a homebrew chemist, and even such a formal approach will somewhat violate the aesthetics of the procedure. There is one way that after some training, you can find the optimal temperature for brewing different teas. It is as follows.
Bring the water to that same "white key" and start preparing for brewing - warm up the teapot, take out the tea leaves - and so on. All these procedures will take you some time. So, while this time passes, a certain amount of water will cool down to a certain temperature. Well, you understand, in short ...

To be continued (tomorrow) ...

[WATER for tea and more]

And about WATER for tea and more... I already wrote that in our village there is very hard water in the well. Filters don't help much, as one filter is enough for a couple of weeks. And on unfiltered water, tea is not very good ... Why? First, in any water many different impurities... They do not allow to completely take everything tasty and healthy from tea. Secondly, when the water boils, the so-called heavy water, deuterium water... Deuterium, which is found in large quantities in ordinary tap water at the time of boiling, increases and makes this water not useful for the human body, and for tea too.
So I adapted to do melt water... There are almost no extraneous unnecessary impurities in the melt water. Crystals of melt water have clear defined and beautiful shapes. Such water easily enters into chemical bonds in the human body, due to which the body does not consume additional energy. Melt water has unique properties:

- Melt water removes toxins and excess salt from the body.
- Nourishing cells, participating in the processes of hematopoiesis, melt water cleanses the blood and helps to remove cholesterol plaques.
- If you drink up to 3 liters of water per day, that is, more than the body needs (if there are no problems with the kidneys and heart), you can get rid of excess body fat. After all, fat also mainly consists of water, and by drinking more water than is required per day, the process of emergency withdrawal of water from the body starts, the fat disappears naturally and painlessly.
- Helps with pain in the head, partially lowers blood pressure, it is recommended for cardiovascular diseases and diseases of the nervous system.
- Melt water reduces fatigue and increases efficiency, improves sleep, increases the body's resistance to viral infections.
- If you drink melt water on hungry days, you don't feel like eating.
- The longer the drinking time of melt water, the less medication is required. The immune system becomes higher, diseases are more easily cured.
- Increases efficiency and attentiveness in children who drink melt water. Water is also useful for allergies.
- If you wash your face with melt water, your complexion will improve and will be fresh, with a slight blush.An even greater effect can be achieved by rubbing your face with ice cubes made from melt water.
- Regular drinking of melt water helps to rejuvenate the body.

- Herbs brewed with melt water give more of their healing properties. And tea brewed in melted water turns out to be very tasty

How to properly prepare melt water?
Many people think that melting water is easy to prepare - freeze and then reheat, and that's the end of it! In fact, it is somewhat more complicated. In addition to water molecules, water contains dissolved gases, salts, ions, molecules - that is, what we call water is in fact a complex solution. When preparing melt water, it is recommended to first get rid of excess gases.
So, degassing... Pour water into an enamel bowl and bring it to the state of a “white key”, or, as they say in Asia, so that “the water laughs” - the water is not boiling yet, but bubbles from the bottom are already actively rising up, the water seems to be covered with a white coating. You don't need to boil water!



So, the water "laughed". Unplug it and cool. Now pour into a glass container or leave in the same enamel bowl. Place the water in the freezer. After 4-5 hours, the surface of the water and the walls are already caught by the first ice. Now remove the dishes from the freezer, drain the water and free it from the frozen first ice.
This ice is formed by the so-called "heavy water"- water formed not by hydrogen, but by its heavier isotopes, usually deuterium, occasionally with tritium. This water is very harmful to the body. Hydrogen bombs, which frightened us at the end of the last century, acted precisely on water - the water within the range of such a bomb became heavy, and slowly killed all living things.
So, get rid of heavy water ice and put the water back in the freezer. The water in the middle is the last to freeze, it has an increased content of salts, which are also not very useful for the body. This water is called easy... It is better to remove water from the freezer when the core is not frozen yet. If removed later, the whole core will be milky-cloudy. Frozen core is more difficult to remove.
Using a jet of hot or warm water, remove (wash) unfrozen water and ice of a milky cloudy color from the resulting ice. As a result, we get a beautiful "donut" of transparent color. I try not to freeze the water to the end and drain this light water.



So, this icy "donut" is already what we need

It may seem that it is too troublesome to freeze - thaw water. It's actually very simple. I have buckets of water on the veranda, and I played with them. I prepared a bucket of melt water in a day. poured into jugs, in the same place, on the veranda, and left the jugs. The water in them froze again. But you can store such water as long as you like. I will bring in jugs of ice as they are consumed. When the water runs out, I'll do more. I have already brewed tea with this water. The taste of tea has improved several times! And the water itself is tasty, delicious ... I recommend ... By the way, some peoples used to use high-mountainous transparent ice (analogue of melt water) for brewing tea.

[paramed1]

paramed1At what distance do you plant cucumber seeds from each other?
lappl1Well, at the same time, I'm also trying to do the first time with melt water. Thank you for the accurate information, otherwise I met a fragmentary one, where it is written to throw out the ice, where is the water, now everything fell into place.

[natushka]

natushka, I have narrow mittlider beds, so 17.5 cm on trellises in one row on the ridge. Previously planted on trellises with a groove for irrigation in the middle of the ridge after 30 cm in 2 rows.

Luda, it is very similar to make water for a long time, when the dacha was in the Tver region. There, the water in the wells was so-so, and the children were 5 and 7 years old, so in winter they froze and stoked almost all the time. You are right, if you get used to it, then it is not at all time-consuming, it is done between times.

[paramed1]

paramed1, Thank you! I also have narrow ones in one row, so I asked.

[natushka]

natushka, this year I want to plant less often, they grow very much, it is difficult to collect. I will plant in 20. It's a pity that their leaves don't go for tea ...

[natushka]

at the same time I am now also trying to make melt water for the first time. Thank you for the accurate information, otherwise I met a fragmentary one, where it is written to throw out the ice, where is the water, now everything fell into place.

natushka, to your health! I've been doing melt water for 20 years already. So I have experience.
Did and a simplified version of the preparation of melt water... The goal was not to find the ideal structure of water, but to banal purification. Water was poured into plastic bottles (not completely), put them in the freezer, completely frozen, then completely thawed. White flakes gathered at the bottom of the bottle (I think these are the very substances that polluted the water). Gently poured water into a jug, trying not to stir up the sediment. It turned out that 1/4 of the water with flakes remained in the bottle. I poured these flakes, and drank the water poured into a jug and used it in tea and coffee. The water was completely different - tasty, soft. The tea was wonderful. And in winter, when the weather itself is favorable, I make water in the way described above.

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, I also froze water in plastic bottles, and now I drink water passed through the Geyser filter. I change it once a month. It was thought to pass this water through freezing, to check whether there will be a sediment.
Girls, again I changed my avatar, I felt cold with titmouses and snow. I just can't find it, this time I decided to put a lily of the valley (according to the flower horoscope, my flower, and I'm allergic to its aroma). You are already opening the summer season here, picking up the seeds, and I put a spring flower on my avatar to raise my spirits.

[paramed1]

paramed1, I do not know how she will work, she is finishing her studies this year. I wanted to work as a surgeon, they discouraged her, but to be honest, I still did not understand where in the end she went. Says it's okay? Che, de, how is it not clear. And I could also take the money into account, and I also wanted to be a virologist - or whatever he is called there. Veronica so we are colleagues in children.

[francevna]

francevna, beautiful avatar, I love lilies of the valley very much
There is catastrophically no place in the Freezer. We drink tea from the settled water! My grandmother in the village curdled dry milk mixtures, so they began to defend the water for a day and cook from the settled water - normal baby cereals went.Since then, I always use this water.

[Oksana]

Oksana, Thank you!
I have a huge refrigerator, a large freezer and a 350l chest, but again there is not enough space. I used to canned it, but now I freeze everything.

[Loksa]

Loksa, Oksana, I also thought that you were still a child, I took
Meet me

Nice to meet you!: Mail: no, I was an Octobrist; I am falling into childhood, very convenient, I tell you. The child comes all tense - I don't know what happened until she relaxes (: spiteful: such a closed, very serious grimzen since childhood) you have to fool around - you look and a smile descended on your face: pad: and so all my life, a habit. OOO new avatar is beautiful!

[Alla]

Alla, Galya, with new avs you! Alla, I also love lilies of the valley, especially for the aroma. Checkmark, are you right on Ave? Beauty and slender !!! Well done ! Only the face cannot be seen ... And don't get the HP from the mezzanine. Otherwise it will be fraught with the figure ...

I also have narrow ones in one row, so I asked

I plant cucumbers in a greenhouse in a checkerboard pattern, there are 2 beds 80 cm each, I sow them there 2 pieces per hole at a distance of 40-45 cm from each other, then I destroy one mercilessly, I came to the conclusion that if you sow closer, then later there will be an impassable fence), and I remove ALL lateral shoots at a distance of 80 cm from the ground, from 80 cm to 1.5 m I leave only 2 lateral ones. So they do not get sick, they are ventilated and I don’t complain about the yield. So greed is not needed here, like when thinning carrots))

Checkmark, are you right on Ave? Beauty and slender !!! Well done ! Only the face cannot be seen ... And don't get the HP from the mezzanine. Otherwise it will be fraught with the figure ...

So it was her husband (HP) who hid her there, but I can't guess why he did it
Lyudochka, yes I am, I am pure
Bigger what to do ... I'm an ordinary Russian woman
Here's how to make a mulk "Hide" - I don't know.

Her, let him get HP from the mezzanine, we will have the same donuts!

Yesterday I baked the loaf for the first time, my husband said: well, the first pancake is lumpy, you should have seen it (my this loaf, not my husband, no, no), you would also laugh like that
took it up at 9 o'clock in the evening, not counting the fact that the dough was still in the morning, and baked at 1-15