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

[Tonya]

Tonya, now I will be more attentive to my samovar. By the way, Comrade Shumakov from the "Site about tea" writes that this is the most ideal "device" for boiling water for tea. You can also warm the teapot on it correctly.

And we put the teapot on the samovar. Mom loves water from a spring for a samovar, we don't understand. The samovar is making noise so interesting. In the village, not everyone has a samovar. We are so proud, we drink tea from a samovar, like merchants. My brother always laughs "tea in Mytishchi".

Mom loves water from a spring for a samovar, we don't understand

So mom knows a lot about tea. Good water and good tea.

[Oksana]

Now I drink tea with mint and Ivan tea with sourness, so it should be?

Oksana, with sourness Ivan tea can be, if fermented for a long time. It's neither bad nor good ... It's okay if you're happy with it. some ferment for a long time to sourness.

My sister brought a samovar. Copper. Tula. In a terrible state. From a friend who kept it in the barn only because they couldn't throw it away.
She cleaned it, fixed something. All that is missing is the "crown", and the wood has rotted on the handles. We are going to finally restore it in Tula, but our hands do not reach. It is in working order.
Now at family gatherings we drink tea from a samovar. As in the cartoon, we drown with juniper twigs. And bumps.

Our samovar has been standing for a year and a half and is waiting in the wings ... His husband bought it somewhere on the occasion, inoperative, terribly dirty. For a month he soaked it, removed the scale. When I took it off, the samovar dripped, a hole opened. And somewhere in a place that is difficult to repair. We found a samovar master, he repaired, screwed on the missing fintiflyushki. Beauty has become. It turned out to be a thoroughbred samovar, quite rare. But it was the end of the summer cottage season. and we did not try tea from a samovar. And this year everything was chaotic at the dacha, they were constantly running back and forth, and so hands did not reach. It's a pity, but what to do ... Well, next year everything will definitely happen! As soon as we arrive.

[paramed1]

paramed1, I drink mint even in its pure form, I have a strange variety - it smells like mint candies right away, very fragrant. I found it in old dachas, dug it up and have been trying to reproduce it for two years now. We don't have a samovar

[lappl1]

lappl1, but I thought he fermented a little next year we'll check it out!

[Oksana]

Oksana, I mean, different types of mint smell and dry differently. I have regular pepper, a lot of it. And still very young mint, which clearly traces the taste of chocolate. So you're lucky with a fragrant look! And it multiplies easily, I plant it in old tires so that it does not flood strawberries, they grow nearby. Her rhizomes are powerful, so it must grow. I also love pure mint, but fresh. We were in Israel, waiting for a transfer at the local airport and stopped at a night Arab cafe with three tables. There we were given real mint tea. Mint, in my opinion, was more than water ... Such a tall transparent glass full of twigs filled with boiling water.

[paramed1]

paramed1, in-in, I also fill a glass of twigs with boiling water! chocolate mint? I haven’t even heard about this, I’ll go and study. There is a room, but no chocolate one. Curious. I drink dried mono, rarely mix - at will. And it grows under my viburnum. When I found it, I really wanted to fall straight and breathe, roll around, but there was a dump and we hardly dug it out with a piece of slate, it was August, the mint was fading away.I was very worried about how she would get accustomed, for a whole year I was shaking over her, I know that it is growing well, but I was afraid to lose. Now it has grown into a decent clearing for me.

I have already said in other Temko that I have 6 varieties of mint and also oregano. It is difficult to establish the species identity of mint, only I know that one is definitely a cat (Nepeta cataria, in fact, from a different family, you definitely won't want to drink tea from it), and another is curly mint (Mentha crispa). The rest are difficult to identify.

Such a tall transparent glass full of twigs covered with boiling water.

in-in, I also fill a glass of twigs with boiling water!

Peppermint has a powerful effect on the heart. Drinking tea from a glass completely filled with mint is definitely not daily.

In general, herbal medicine is not so harmless. Homemade teas can, under certain conditions, be harmful. Especially considering that fermentation enhances the properties of plants. In support of my words, I can add that there are many herbal poisons. Cicuta, for example, which was poisoned by both Socrates and Cicero, is obtained from a nondescript umbrella, cat parsley, which has a pleasant smell and tastes like other root vegetables.

Before you get carried away with any tea, make sure that it is harmless to you personally. And do not treat strangers without warning that they are in the collection.

Aaaaaa! I came home with a tefalca tea maker! I'm going to brew and indulge.
And I also have a samovar, an antique dealer I know gave me for my birthday, when we just entered the house. In perfect condition, some kind of cool shape and some kind of cool brand. In short, some collector's item in absolutely working order. In the kitchen stands on the cupboard. I still dream of drinking tea on warm summer evenings in the yard under the pine trees .... But! Evenings in our summer are very hot, I don't even want to leave the house, besides there are a lot of mosquitoes and midges, and there are even more things to do ... In general ... there is a samovar on the cabinet ...

Aaaaaa! I came home with a tefalca tea maker! I'm going to brew and indulge.
And I also have a samovar, a familiar antique dealer gave me for my birthday, when we just entered the house. In perfect condition, some kind of cool shape and some kind of cool brand. In short, some collector's item in absolutely working order. In the kitchen stands on the cupboard. I still dream of drinking tea on warm summer evenings in the yard under the pine trees .... But! Evenings in our summer are very hot, I don't even want to leave the house, besides there are a lot of mosquitoes and midges, and there are even more things to do ... In general ... there is a samovar on the cabinet ...

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, thanks for the warning. The fact is that I know this well and have been warning the local tea-makers for a long time about possible problems, I was once taught this at the pharmaceutical faculty ... There were at first misunderstandings with plants for many, but Lina helps us a lot, she is a doctor. So we gradually learned everything and try to behave correctly.
If you drink tea with mint not every day in a bucket (Oksana, are you not in a bucket?), But occasionally, I mean with a good amount of mint, then if a person, in principle, does not suffer from deviations from the normal functioning of the body, nothing will happen to him ... no, if you take, for example, Japanese mint, then there will be a stronger composition of pepper and field, but it is not widespread here.

[Lena]

Lena, great! Let's brew! Just do not put it under the shelves, otherwise steam will fall out of it, they will be wet and something will come off ...

[paramed1]

paramed1, I have no doubts about the sanity of the local inhabitants. However, it may well be that even children read us. And it will not hurt to remind once again.

if a person, in principle, does not suffer from deviations from the normal functioning of the body

And I mean the same - we are all different. And “if you’re over thirty, you woke up in the morning and nothing hurts, then you’re dead.” Listen to your body. Plants cannot be equally useful to everyone. I just urge you to be careful.

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, thanks again.Naturally, it is necessary to remind more than once, new people appear, and if at the beginning of the season we conducted a serious educational program, then those who joined in the course of the play often do not read the above. This happened several times. But while everyone is alive, thank God. And about sanity - oh, you're wrong! There were cases ...

Girls, of course, do not get carried away with large volumes of herbal teas. Phytotherapy is still therapy, but we are treating what, what and what contraindications can you know? Therefore, drinking herbal teas intensively, in large quantities and composition, is still not worth it. Together with Veronica, I try to talk about the indications and contraindications of the "leaves" we drink, so that at least the composition is better for myself. Now let's deal with mint.

It is difficult to establish the species identity of mint, only I know that one is definitely a cat (Nepeta cataria, in fact, from a different family, you definitely won't want to drink tea from it), and another is curly mint (Mentha crispa).

ALL MINT from the Yasnotkov family, including catnip. All mint contain very similar essential substances, one of which is carvacrol, which has a pronounced vasodilating and lubricant effect. That is why mint oil is a part of valocordin and corvalol (in rather significant doses). That is, it is used as a drug for cardioneuroses, tachycardia, as well as for migraines, hypertension, intestinal colic, and as a bronchiolytic for bronchitis. Side effects - constipation due to a decrease in peristalsis. Basil, marjoram, savory, hyssop, rosemary, lavender, oregano, sage, lemon balm, thyme also belong to the lamines. In general, a couple of cups of mint tea daily is not harmful.

Cicuta, for example, which both Socrates and Cicero were poisoned with, is obtained from a nondescript umbrella, cat parsley,

Cole (dog parsley) and cicuta really belong to the umbrella family (celery), but they are different plants. If the cicuta is one of the most poisonous plants, then the coquine is much less poisonous. But in any case, these are poisonous plants and they can only be used in homeopathic dilution according to the schemes and in doses prescribed for you by the homeopathic doctor. Therefore, I do not advise anyone to make tea from celery. At best, gastrointestinal poisoning, at worst, convulsions, paralysis and respiratory arrest. This also includes hemlock (conium) and hogweed, which are also extremely poisonous plants.

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, Veronica, thank you girls, for the information about mint. I didn't know that she has so many varieties. I have three types of mint - on a potato field like a weed (a lot and the most vigorous), a neighbor's, cultivated (I don't know the variety, but soft) and another huge bush on the way to the forest, it grows by itself, near the pillar (it smells soft and delicious). So I make them out of them. But I do not ferment, I just twist and dry.
When I am weeding potatoes, I literally sob over every bush, because it’s a pity to throw it away. But where is so much of it? Enough for our entire tea topic ...

[Ludmila]

Lina, got ahead of me about celery ... and hemlock. Before I have time to answer everything, I work at the computer and sit here in parallel. It's good that at least today you are not posting anything, otherwise you would be dangling back and forth again.
Ludmila, and there is also field mint, it smells a little differently, but picking it is cleaner than strawberries ... Maybe this is what the pillar has?

Linochka, thank you! As always, she came and put everything in its place. I am always interested in reading your posts about the properties of plants. It immediately becomes somehow calmer.
Girls, after such a serious information about herbs, I again want to say that if we make tea from predictable and tasty plants, then we will practically not get anything for it, unless, of course, drinking the same tea in liters. After all, we have so many such plants. And one is better than the other! And if you are not sure, you can walk past the exotic. In extreme cases, consult with our specialists (Lina, Veronica and Tanya), if you really can't wait.I ripened for a long time with the monard and the snakehead. Although a neighbor recommended them as tea plants, she has not yet consulted here, until she has received the "go-ahead", has not begun to make tea from them. so you really need to "turn on your head" when you are going to make tea from some stifling that is not familiar to us in the therapeutic sense.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, when I said that you wouldn’t drink catnip, I meant its smell: sorry, but it gives off like cat urine (maybe this is a feature of my variety, I don’t know, or maybe cats, because of their special love, arranged a "toilet there ". They rolled the ground near valerian to smoothness, but did not spoil).
Thank you for additional information on herbs. I have a principle (thanks to my parents): never drag berries into your mouth that you don't know, don't chew grass that you don't know, don't pick mushrooms that you don't know, or even just aren't sure about them.

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, this principle should be for everyone! And from childhood. My grandmother taught me this too, and I, in turn, teach my children and grandchildren. And we regularly remind our tea-makers !!!

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, and there is also field mint, it smells a little differently, but picking it is cleaner than strawberries ... Maybe this is what the pillar has?

Veronica, no, field and "pole" mint is very easy to collect - the bushes are lush and large. And the easiest way is to collect a neighbor's room - she herself brings it to me in bouquets. It seems to me that my potatoes are not quite field mint. I know the field, saw and collected it in Kazakhstan. It's not like that on my potato. I don’t know who brought it here, since I already got the potato field with all the weeds I had, along with the purchase of a house and a plot.

and I, in turn, teach my children and grandchildren. And we regularly remind our tea-makers !!!

This is true! I confirm ... Thank you girls for that!

I came home with a tefalca tea maker!

Helen, with the purchase of you! Hope this is what you need! Share your impressions. we are very interested!

I forgot about the lemon catnip, which is catnip ... Well, it shouldn't smell like that! It smells like lemon, at least it should. And does not lose smell during heat treatment. I used to dry it, it smells good. Now it is sometimes sold in garden stores as a new kind of citrus-scented mint. My neighbor was led ... Tatiana, maybe you react this way to the subtle smell of geranium that may be present in the catnip?
By the way, you need to sow yourself ... it will come in handy!

Luda, while you pluck the leaves of the field, you will become brutal! It is good to collect it like that, with grass, for drying. And for tea ...
The niece came to visit. Question: what kind of tea? Answer: strawberry ... My question: WHO PROMISED TO ME IN SUMMER ITS LEAVES TO COLLECT ??? Silence and eyes down ... After collecting that strawberry, I was arranged by a garden, of which there are many and large leaves.

maybe this is how you react to the subtle smell of geranium

Likely. But tea from it is preparatory Despite the fact that I love mint.

[Veronica]

while you pluck the leaves of the field, you will become brutal!

Veronica, I agree with this ... The process is long, but for me, rather, meditative. I love making tea so much that it doesn't bother me. I turn on something cool from the music (like New Age or Gela Guralia) and trudge ... it turns out quickly.

you will not drink catnip, I meant its smell: sorry, but it gives off like cat urine

She is named "feline" because felines love her very much. For them, she is a drug with alcohol in one bottle. They are so foolish with her ... and she is still a lubricant ... the sphincters all open ... in general, the worst manifestation of a drug addict with a drunk in a cat's performance. You don't need to take such a herb, but you really need to take a clean one - a pleasant mint aroma with lemon-citrus notes, there is nothing unpleasant or harmful in it.

[pouring tea into the teapot]

Girls, I continue the topic of brewing tea. I remind you that infa from the "Site about tea" from Comrade Shumakov. Today about pouring tea into the teapot.

STAGE 3 - Fill in the tea leaves. In falling asleep there is three methodological ;-))) aspects: aesthetic, quantitative and technological.
A) Aesthetic aspect pouring tea leaves into a teapot is most developed in the Chinese tea art of gongfu cha. To simplify things greatly, I will only point out that before roughly grabbing and stuffing a dose into a kettle, the Chinese advise "Get acquainted" with tea.
“Getting to know” is to look, smell, touch, wonder, admire, feel and feel. "Acquaintance" with tea is a kind of psychological attitude, it is the anticipation of the future taste and aroma. Of course, if you are whipping up some third-rate Ceylon broken, then there is no time for aesthetics. But if you love and pamper yourself, and drink worthy varietal tea, taste this pleasure in full.
Take your time before pouring into the teapot - admire, feel the aroma, remember something pleasant about this tea and how you drank it before ...
B) Quantitative aspect concerns the answer to the fundamental question: “A how much to pour? " There is no unambiguous answer to this question and cannot be, although some specialists (such as V. Pokhlebkin) even derive special formulas for calculating the dose.
There is no definite answer here for the following reasons:
a) tea tastes and preferences of different people are very different... Someone loves "stronger", and someone "weaker"; b) features extraction of the same volume of infusion for different types of tea are also very different; in) situations and reasons for drinking tea are also very different, which quite strongly affects the amount of required infusion.
Bred by the British traditionthe ionic formula reads: "one teaspoon of dry tea leaves for each cup, plus one teaspoon for the teapot." But there are too many ambiguities here. The European (including English) tradition of drinking tea is as follows: from a teapot we pour the tea leaves into a cup, but not to the top, but, for example, a quarter or a third of a cup, and then add (dilute) all this with boiling water (milk, balm, etc.) . P.).
So what happens? If we have an average teapot of 500 ml, and a 200 ml cup, into which we pour the infusion into a quarter (50 ml), it turns out that we can squeeze up to 10 cups of tea from the teapot. And if you add boiling water to the teapot, then even more. It turns out that, according to the most conservative estimates, you need to cram about 10-12 teaspoons of tea leaves into a half-liter teapot. Try it, it will amuse you a lot ;-)))



This formula (teaspoon per cup + teaspoon for a teapot) makes sense only when we drink tea "in an oriental way" - not diluting it with boiling water, but completely pouring the contents of the teapot into our cup. Then, on average, 3-4 teaspoons of tea leaves should be poured onto a half-liter teapot; and if you are going to add several times (brew 2 or 3 times), then you can safely pour 4-6 spoons.
Hence the moral: if you, having cunningly grabbed the teapot, are going to drink everything yourself ("in an oriental way"), then, in principle, the traditional formula for the amount of tea leaves will suit you. If you drink tea "in a European way", diluting the infusion or sharing with a large crowd, then the volume of the infusion should be increased by at least 1.5-2 times compared to the traditional recipe.
As small pearls of folk tea wisdom, add:
1) If you are not in the habit of drinking green teas, then when you try, add more infusions, because in comparison with black teas, their taste seems "weak";
2) If you are brewing tea in hard water, add more tea leaves (1-2 tsp), since hard water impairs the extraction;
3) If you drink small-leaved tea, then you can (by 1-2 tsp.) Reduce the dose, since small teas have a more pronounced sharp taste. Accordingly, when drinking large-leaf teas, the dose may be slightly increased;
4) If you drink tea immediately after a hearty meal or smoke, then the standard dose of brewing should also be slightly increased, since the taste is usually dull;
5) When choosing the volume of infusion, consider your own biorhythms. For example, because.I am an "owl", then in the morning I can take for tea only a horse dose of some small-leaved Assam; but towards evening I am quite ready to feel the delicate taste and aroma of exquisite Darjeeling leaf.
IN) The technological aspect of falling asleep tea leaves answers the question "How to put it into the teapot?" You can avoid a lot of trouble if you follow these simple rules:
1) The faster you go through the procedure of pouring tea into the teapot, the better.... If you hesitate, the tea leaves will surely have time to soak in some foreign odors. We quickly opened the caddy next to the teapot, quickly poured the required dose from it inside the teapot, quickly filled it with boiling water and closed it with a lid!
2) Tea is poured into the teapot most often clean teaspoon... In the East, this is often done with special wooden tweezers (for large-leaf tea) or with wooden "measures" (for small-leaf tea), reminiscent of scoops.



But I, as a true esthete ;-))), prefer to pour tea with my hands (clean!). Because it's easier to calculate the dose and you get very pleasant results ;-)))
3) I recommend pouring tea not just a "slide" and make a teapot a couple of shaking circular movements; as if to "smear" the tea poured inside on the walls of the heated teapot. Then be sure to stick your nose inside the teapot and smell it! Mmmm, it's just a thrill !!! Such "smearing" of the tea leaves on the walls of the kettle is a very important point: when you continue to pour boiling water, the area of ​​its contact with the tea leaves (and, consequently, the speed and quality of extraction) will increase significantly. [/ size]

To be continued....

Well, yes, even toys for cats are sold with catnip filler. So, if I sow, village cats will wander to the site and make our angry hunting dog nervous ... We even hung a sign on the gate about the angry dog!

Girls, well, a picture on the topic of not very pleasant associations associated with tea:

unnerve our hunting dog ...

Oh yeah! Cats for dogs are the main irritant ... So it is better not to risk ... neighbors' cats.

Ours wants to play with the cats. Those often do not want to ... I wonder why?
Luda, the picture is great. Associations with the same were at the beginning of our glorious deeds, when they began to twist the leaves in a meat grinder ... Then they got used to it and twisted in silence.

Those often do not want to ... I wonder why?

Waiting for a catch ...

Associations with the same were at the beginning of our glorious deeds

It's strange, but I have never had ...

In my life there have been three cases of close acquaintance with cats (these are those that lived or live with me and my relatives).
All three have different attitudes towards valerian and catnip.
My first cat - Masha, Marusya, Marysya - was a lady from tip of nose to tip of tail, despite her "noble" origin and courtyard upbringing. She did not pay attention to cat drugs (valerian and catnip).
Sister's cat, Vasily, a Siberian 9 years old, from good parents, becomes a kitten at one hint of the smell of valerian (he began to polish the ground near valerian), while completely ignoring the catnip.
My daughter's cat (and mine in part), a three-year-old little girl (she posted her photo in the topic about cats), taken from a domestic cat, cannot resist either valerian (let me remind you about my bushes of this plant, which regularly suffer from it), or against catnip.
But I adapted the baskets from the old freezer in order to combat unauthorized digging of roots by four-legged vandals. I dig them upside down and that's it. Valerian grows through the twigs and the roots are protected. Everyone is happy, except for the cats.

And our cat just went crazy from the smell of valerian and Corvalol. Straight became not normal and could even rush and grab with claws. And if someone wanted to drink drops, then before opening the bottle, the cat was carried away and closed in another room.

Yes, the theme of cats and valerian is inexhaustible ... My cat Afonya, once accidentally locked on the veranda, where there was a box with dry valerian, made a real pogrom. When the work came home, the cat was out, and everything that was not nailed on the veranda was lying on the floor - pots, cans, shoes, clothes ... The box with valerian was all torn apart, and Afonya was lying around happy ... It took a long time to put everything in order.

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, poured water from the mains and the same water, passed through the Geyser filter, into two transparent plastic 1.5 liter bottles. After freezing, allowed the ice to completely melt. The water is absolutely clean in both bottles, no flakes, no sediment, which surprised and delighted me.

Girls, and when brewing tea in tea makers, you cannot simply maintain a constant water temperature without brewing and not 100 degrees, but 70 for example. Tea cannot be brewed 100 degrees, the benefits are lost, and boiling water and steam are 100 degrees. That would be such a device for heating water from 60 to 95 degrees and maintaining the desired temperature constantly.
And my cat loved ammonia drops. Once they came, and he opened a new bottle - the metal was lying around, and the rubber stopper had been gnawed all over and the bottle was empty. You had to see what he was doing.

[Alla]

I poured water from the water supply and the same water, passed through the Geyser filter, into two transparent plastic 1.5 liter bottles. After freezing, allowed the ice to completely melt. The water is absolutely clean in both bottles, no flakes, no sediment, which surprised and delighted me.

AllaThank you very much for the experiment. So you have good water. Indeed, this cannot but rejoice.

[paramed1]

Girls, I’m mulberry, don’t think that I got drunk on mint and lay calm on the beds. On the contrary, I made dumplings yesterday. Dough with pumpkin and durum flour (I accidentally bought such flour - I attach it)
paramed1, Veronica, I can only drink buckets of coffee. I do not use mint a lot, I know about the harmfulness. I have recently changed my addiction to strongly aromatic herbs and have not yet fully decided. I can't drink oregano, I feel sick and that's it. No wonder I respect apple tea, it is neutral in smell. And I forced myself to drink mint from behind my head (migraine attacks sometimes), I also like to smell it.
I tried to plant a cat, but it didn’t work, or it was polished, or it disappeared itself. But I won't plant any more, we already have a courtyard for all the cats, we have all the hangouts; our cat is very worried about this. And he also reacts wildly to valerian, but in a different way, he shies away from her and runs away - I suppose he is afraid of drugs I have the right cat, he still responds to the word: "On." We went to the forest with an overnight stay, got up in the morning, there is no cat, well, I went to look. "kys-kys" - did not work; I yell: "Gosh, gosh, na-na" and on the leg with my palm I tap- complete clinic: crazy: in the head. What do you think comes, meows and with itself, it is listed in the forest calling. We went to look at his place, he was in front, I was behind, he also turned and looked whether I was going or not and meows. Now I call him that "Gosh na" comes running very quickly. In the summer, at the dacha, the first one gets up and drags me around.
By the way, here is a photo of dumplings, pumpkin is not felt, surprisingly. The color is beautiful, sunny

he still responds to the word: "On"

At my word: "To eat" (especially from the lips of my daughter) the cat and the grandson come running. And the son-in-law responds.
And both cats (my cat and my sister cat) are still very responsive to the word "meat" in any context.

[vedmacck]

vedmacck, so the correct word my cat also understands the word "meat" as "happiness"

For some, the smell of mint is not mint at all, but "smells like cat meat"! My mom reacts like that all the time. I have frequent migraines, rub whiskey with mint or peppermint oil, I feel good, and my mother demands to "wash the cat's pot" :-)
Lyudmila, I was impressed by the METHODOLOGY of brewing tea))) I immediately remembered the years of study at the university!

And here a dog knows that it is a "dog" - you call and immediately it is right there! (though now she is 13 years old and she has become deaf - you need to call loudly)))

By the way, here is a photo of dumplings, pumpkin is not felt, surprisingly. The color is beautiful, sunny

Oksana, what are your cool dumplings! And what kind of dough - soft or harsh? I like a little hard in dumplings, and in dumplings, and in manti.

[Linga]

The METHODOLOGY of brewing tea impressed))) I immediately remembered the years of study at the university!

Linga, I am glad that my presentation of the material evokes pleasant memories ... In any case, those were happy years for me.
I will also post information about tea. I have not written everything about brewing yet.