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

I looked out the window ... no snow, no frost is dumb. Ivanushkaaaaaa, hello, dear, wait for us in May

Luda, I don't take fireweed into account. He stands alone. And it will be tart, yes, with prolonged fermentation, or with prolonged brewing, naturally. I'm talking about tea from the leaves of other plants. Tannins and tannins are not exactly the same thing. Tannin belongs to the group of tannins. Not all tannins will give astringency when brewed.
On the technology of tea production. We must strive for the ideal, yes. But each has its own ideal. But we will still strive! Wait, we'll figure out my husband's health, after the New Year I will definitely take care of the materiel. By the spring, the test must be passed!

By the spring, the test must be passed!

yes, yes, our Teacher of the Year will be strict with us

It's good that we have tea-makers like Veronichka ...

[lappl1]

lappl1, sugar spoils any tea and also drink coffee in a bite. Well, we didn’t agree that way, I don’t like to take tests in my head, I’ll write it down!

Oksana, I’m already putting in less sugar, but I can’t completely give it up

[Galina Iv.]

Galina Iv., Checkmark, and who is easy now ?! I HAVE to force myself!
There is a crisis in the country! Sugar is a luxury product!
I drink tea without sugar and all the rest: cocoa coffee, etc., and I put SakhaR in yogurt and cottage cheese with sour cream

great diet
so we will grow sugar beets in our dachas

In my swamp, it's more like a reed! Have a boom to ferment it too!

and I have a swamp ... not a bad idea

And what, you can make sugar syrup from sugar beets at home. Only a lot of time is needed.
We must try to drive something out of the reeds. There is a lot of it in the swamps!
Oksana, Lyuda will not take tests and exams for everyone. He cannot cope with everyone, the distances are long. Lina and I signed up for the first time. So you can slip through automatically.
I specially took out Ivan-tea, which I fermented for 30 hours, it happened with one batch. The taste is different, and here there is almost no floral aroma, but a clearly perceived astringency appeared, but not the same as that of strongly brewed black tea, but softer, perhaps, vague. I think you need to ferment longer to get the tannins out. But to the detriment of the aroma, which, for example, I really like in 12-hour Ivan tea.

So you can slip through automatically.

kind, however
reeds do not grow in swamps, (with long dark cones), this is a cattail, but a reed with a panicle
in, in, I almost always did 12 o'clock

I looked out the window ... no snow, no frost is dumb. Ivanushkaaaaaa, hello, dear, wait for us in May

We have such a frost (millimeters on everything. And already 5 days. Very beautiful.
And my legs lead me straight to Ivan tea when we walk. I am happy with him even this winter ...

Again she called it the wrong thing ... Sorry, my head is stuffed with crutches, stools in the bath, etc. Yesterday at night I even managed to screw up the bread that I have been baking for over a year.
And starch can be obtained from cattail, from rhizomes. So the swamps are good for us.
Galina, so I can't understand which Ivan tea I like better. They are fundamentally different. So Luda, too, this season, she wrote, got hooked on another, not the one that was in the favorites before. So next season we will definitely begin to pluck everything in its infancy, write everything down and try, try ...

Luda, our north-west of Moscow is also covered with snow.And not a single snowflake in the center. So winter came to separate areas ...

But to the detriment of the aroma, which, for example, I really like in 12-hour Ivan tea.

Girls and I love the 12 hour ivan tea the most. It has enough of everything.
In general, we don't need to compare our tea with traditional tea. He is good in himself. Well I wrote about it in the recipe - drink it and do not compare it with anything. enjoy a unique aroma and taste.
And the fact that I'm digging into theory is so arranged - you need to understand everything thoroughly. Maybe we can find a technology that is better than the current one.
I've aimed myself at green and red teas. I think we can do it. I also want to try to make pu-erh. What the hell is not kidding ... Suddenly it will work out ... There are enough raw materials, so you can experiment.

[Veronica]

Veronica, I spent the whole summer looking at wormwood. Such a beauty! Her husband tears her for a bath. And I wanted to add it to my tea, a little bit ... I read that it was useful. And also yarrow. It also gives bitterness. But she did not dare. I wanted to ask you and Lina everything in the summer, but somehow it didn’t work. Do you think they can be added to tea?

[Veronica]

Wait, let's deal with husbands health,

Veronica, it is most important! let everything be smooth for him. May God grant him health.

By the spring, the test must be passed!

Exactly, get ready! I will make tests ... I will be strict, but fair ...

[Veronica]

Tannins and tannins are not exactly the same thing. Tannin belongs to the group of tannins. Not all tannins will give astringency when brewed.

Veronica, of course, you are a specialist with us ... And I'm just trying to figure it out, so I put forward all sorts of assumptions ... It's a pity that there is no research of Ivan-tea at the state level. After all, there was a laboratory in Koporye, defeated by a German during the war. But it was never restored. And it seems they are not going to. if not for enthusiasts and amateurs, our tea would have sunk into oblivion.

Luda, because earlier in Russia this beloved Ivan-tea was drunk everywhere, probably for a reason. We must return to our roots. By the way, when I started to make tea with your light hand, it turned out that there are people around who have been making Ivan tea for a long time. And one family, with its roots in Siberia, makes Ivan tea according to the recipe of the Old Believers. Those who have tasted their tea and mine say that there are differences. But I can't shake out their technology! It seems to me that they do the same, but the degree of fermentation is just different.
Yarrow will not cause any harm when added in small quantities to tea. Wormwood is different, a lot of species. Both taste and smell are different. But there are no poisonous ones. One utility. And the appetite increases, and the stomach heals, and they add to the vermouth, and extract essential oils ... By the way, the same tarragon is also wormwood. So you can add a lot of things to tea, only in small doses, so to speak, for a tint aroma. You also need to think about this. It is a pity that real chemist's chamomile does not grow here, its leaves have a very interesting tart-bitter smell. Here it would be ... But you can add a few oak leaves.

So I ran to the Internet, and here we have scientific debates with might and main. And I'll put a word in the debate. I also have a favorite of fireweed with fermentation for 12-15 hours. There is one with fermentation for 18-19 hours, it is dark and tart. So, I think that in order to get a fragrant, but at the same time tart and dark tea, you need to mix teas with different fermentation times in different proportions. This is about Ivanushka. But with the rustic one, I still get astringency - I add the leaves of the sucker. About wormwood - useful, BUT ... There are a lot of allergies to it, it has a certain effect on the central nervous system (in case of an overdose, there may be glitches, impaired concentration, disconnection), and it is still very bitter.

And I just thought - where did she go, she must be inventing something again: povar: or a trick ... Lina, well, if just a few leaves for lovers of bitterness per kilo, for example, apple trees, and silvery wormwood, not bitter , and if there is no allergy and the acidity is not lowered, then nothing.Oh, tansy! And beautifully in tea, yellow buttons, and worms out ...
I stupidly make tea from leaves, if only I added petals from a small-petal rose and shaved off echinacea, a cornflower, two flowers per bucket of raw materials, there was something else ... I didn't add bitterness.

And one family, with its roots in Siberia, makes Ivan tea according to the recipe of the Old Believers. Those who have tasted their tea and mine say that there are differences. But I can't shake out their technology!

Here are misers (God forgive me!). If I know something and can do it, I am ready to share it with the whole world. You don’t need to ask me, I’ll tell you myself. Veronica, spies should be sent to them with a bottle or two. Maybe they will split ...

to get a fragrant, but at the same time tart and dark tea, you need to mix teas with different fermentation times in different proportions.

Lina, that's what I do. and wrote about it in the recipe. But I want everything at once ... well, okay, we'll try it in the summer.

and here we have a scientific debate with might and main.

Aha! I like it. This is how we debate and find the truth.

[Lina]

Lina, Veronica, thank you girls for the educational program on herbal supplements. And I also thought about tansy. She is so beautiful. It will look great in our tea. And we have silvery wormwood. In general, wait for May ...

[Veronica]

But you can add a few oak leaves.

Veronica, and I thought about the oak, but was afraid to ask. Once my dentist forbade me to use oak for problems with gums. said that then the teeth will be black for a long time. But in the bath, an oak is a complete thrill! I love oak brooms most of all. The skin after them is soft, silky ...

[lappl1]

lappl1, Luda, and I'll try to find myself a wormwood. And I have dried, there I suppose the seeds are preserved, you can sow them in a greenhouse. And you can also try to sow chamomile in a greenhouse. I have long dreamed of having a greenhouse for my herbs, all the same we do not have much harvest.
And in the spring I will have a whole bunch of different tests, I don't even want to think about them.
I will gladly try tea with the addition of oak leaf - how is it on the stomach? Only the taste is clearly not fruity. Luda, if all her teeth are black, caries will think that he has nothing to do there and will leave ...

Luda, the dentist is strange! Oak bark is used for rinsing. And nothing the teeth are black. And these goons don't drink! And they put the stamp "top secret" for 100 years ...

You need to look around for chamomile. I was looking for myself, she doesn't like the Vladimir region ... Others are growing. And its northern border is Lake Onega, so it should grow in St. Petersburg. Oksana, if you put a few leaves on many others, just for the bitterness, then everything will be all right.

Once my dentist forbade me to use oak for problems with gums.

This is absolute nonsense! The decoction of the leaves in many pastes and rinses has been used in many countries for many decades and there is no such data.

Girls, isn't tansy a dangerous plant?

[Gaby]

Gaby, and why is it dangerous? It is considered a weakly poisonous plant, like a huge number of other medicinal plants. Yes, it is impossible to treat tansy during pregnancy, it provokes premature birth, before they drank a decoction from it to terminate pregnancy, but it is used for many diseases. Its flowers have an interesting aroma and are bitter. So if you add a few "buttons", you can get an interesting taste.

Isn't tansy a dangerous plant?

Vickus is a very useful plant for the liver. Even drugs are made from it, for example, tanacehol. So, you can have yellow flowers in your tea, you can.

Thank you, the girls explained, I also know what tansy can be used for - rinse your hair after washing your hair, reduces the oily hair. True, I myself have not tried it, but I remember it, just in case, when I read the reference book of medicinal plants.

Girls, even in the Arkhangelsk region is full of this very real pharmacy chamomile, but the fact is that the fields are not plowed enough, she loves to grow in the fields.I thought about fragrant chamomile, it is much more aromatic than pharmacy

But I can't find her, though I need to ... Galina, the leaves at the pharmacy for tea, not flowers. Kill me, I don't know the smell of tongueless, which is odorous. They are similar in properties to the pharmacy, but, in my opinion, the odorous one has a sharper smell of leaves, or not?

Chamomile is fragrant, it is fragrant, it is tongueless (there are no petals in the flower) - a very strong aroma in all the ground parts of this plant.

I also know what tansy can be used for

And you can also put tansy and wormwood in the closet, scare away moths! And for hair, burdock, flax, birch and oak are good. Flax and burdock flowers in tea are also possible.

Luda, the dentist is strange!

Girls, strange, and even what! But there is fish in the absence of fish and cancer. My great dentist stayed in Alma-Ata. And then it was impatient to fill the hole in the tooth, God knows who. So she cleaned the stone for me that for 2 months I came to my senses. The gums were so inflamed that no rinsing or dental gels could remove it. Oddly enough, the only thing that helped was the toothpaste advertised on TV. After a week everything was back to normal. But you can't fly to the dentist for 4000 km. Although I flew once ...

if all teeth are black, caries will think that he has nothing to do there and will leave ...

Oksan, I’ll tell him so: “You don’t see, you have no work here anymore!”

Girls make absinthe for wormwood. Rare muck. I once gave my husband for February 23rd - black, 85 *. He could not beat him in a year.

Flax and burdock flowers in tea are also possible.

Lina, are burdock flowers velcro thorns?

[lappl1]

lappl1You still need to know how to drink real absinthe. A special spoon with holes is placed on a glass of absinthe, sugar is placed in it and set on fire. Sugar softens the bitterness of wormwood.
By the way, in some countries absinthe is prohibited.
Somehow they drank a bottle. The company was small, there were 4 or 5 people, the bottle was not the first, vodka had been drunk earlier (probably a couple of half a liter) and either rum or whiskey. Absinthe is gone without any sugar. Then I was told that there were 70 turns in this bottle. By the way, we already drank it together.

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, apparently we are not sleeping together. For the whole day there was no time to go online. I watched the Voice and at the same time on REN-TV at 22.00 there was a program "Elixir of Youth", there was about mushrooms, about different grass ... in general, the program is interesting for us. I want to look again on the Internet tomorrow.
I drink tea, the body is cleansed. Interestingly, leaf teas are light in color, but more aromatic than granulated ones. Tried but different ways of brewing. It seems like I liked it in a thermos with a glass flask, but I insisted on it there and poured it through a sieve into a porcelain teapot. And now I brew it in a teapot and immediately put it in a container with hot water for 15-20 minutes (I don't put it on fire). Here the aroma is stronger, maybe because here tea breathes, but not in a thermos. Saw today village grapes (7 varieties) + quince + pear + raspberry and added mono strawberries. Not tea, but a fairy tale.

[All]

All, I'm immune to REN-TV. Such nonsense is sometimes carried! And I'm tired of separating the truth from the lie. Or they take some facts and interpret it that way! The "dashing 90s" are immediately remembered with all sorts of Kashpirovskys.
The most amazing thing is how subtly they lie. And it is disgusting that they are interspersed with really informative programs. In which, too, pseudo-scientific information is woven.
As I said, I'm tired of filtering information.

are burdock flowers velcro thorns?

In the beginning, they are lilac baskets, very much even nothing.

[Tatyana]

you still need to know how to drink real absinthe.

Tatyana, Thank you! I will tell my husband about this method. Although after that, 85 * -th he said that it would be better to suffer with cognac.

[Alla]

now I brew it in a kettle and immediately put it in a container with hot water for 15-20 minutes (I don't put it on fire). Here the aroma is stronger, maybe because here tea breathes, but not in a thermos.Saw today village grapes (7 varieties) + quince + pear + raspberry and added mono strawberries. Not tea, but a fairy tale.

Allaof course, the tea in the teapot is more aromatic.
Cool composition of your tea.
And today I brewed tea for the guests in a 3-liter porcelain teapot. I have one. I rarely get it, only when I need to brew a lot of tea. brewed ivan-tea + cherry_apple-raspberry + snakehead + pear. Ivan tea was 60%. So my friend's son could not get drunk with this tea. As soon as I pour him a full mug, he immediately drinks. And, without anything, although I had a cool cake. He said he wanted to enjoy tea like that. I brewed tea twice. He then said that it was very tasty. did not expect this from (quote) "pasture". In general, he is a tea lover. His father got hooked on expensive Chinese teas. So I was pleased with the reaction and surprise of this young tea-man. naturally, she gave him a tea.