Alder tea mix

[Zachary]

Zachary, Thank you.
I showed my husband a picture, said there is in the forest.
I'll have to take a walk, look.

[Podmosvichka]

Podmosvichka, my geranium is bitter. It needs a little. For luxury color only. By the way, I made it mono and sometimes add it to tea prepared using green technology



Yesterday I couldn't go looking for an alder. It rained heavily all day. But, a village neighbor said that there is not far. Only she does not know - black or gray. In any case, there will be tea! I'll go on Wednesday. Promise without rain

the village settlement said that there is also not far. Only she does not know - black or gray. In any case, there will be tea!

I really look forward to the results, I myself have not yet got out to look ... Hell is worth it, under 40, there is no desire at all to climb into the pan and even do something, I only have enough strength to work (I don't have it under the conder)

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, please tell me, have you added any other flowers?
Which ones?
And do you just dry them whole or prepare them?
And more about the percentage of components - the weight of the alder is considered 100 and the calculation should be done as usual or somehow else? Something I got completely confused, I forgot mathematics, I haven't done my homework with children for a long time



Radushka, thanks, understood
I still need to find her.
And if I don’t find something to replace?

Yuri K, Yur, I sympathize, as they say - you better come to us

[Podmosvichka]

Podmosvichka, nothing. Lena, you need to understand that there is NO exact recipe. There is a technological process and an approximate composition.
Even if you try to accurately adhere to weight or volumetric proportions, there are many different factors that affect the quality of the product in the end.
There are certain plants that, no matter how hard you try, will not give the "normal" tea color. There are those that are unlikely to give granules. And so on, and so on ... The biggest thing I can do for you ... Name which leaves and how many are available and ... maybe it will be possible to find the right composition.
Until then ...
Raspberries, garden strawberries, pears, forest blackberries give tea color of varying intensity. Pear is the darkest. Geranium gives a very dark, almost black, infusion color. The apple tree gives color from light amber with a reddish tint to pure amber (honey) color (depending on the apple variety). Cherries and cherries have never given me a tea color. Black (fragrant) currants - too. I did plum-mono once. The color was normal, but I didn't like the taste (the aroma too). This season I did not make mono-teas at all. And I'm not going to. Strawberries and blackberries are quite tart, but do not overpower their aroma. Apart from the aroma, the pear has a strong pear-dried flavor. Cherries and cherries can drown out any scent with their taste and aroma. Therefore, they are put depending on preferences ... If more than 10% in the mix, any tea turns into cherry

[Radushka]

Radushka, I will take this opportunity to ask, currants, like raspberries, when freezing / defrosting, do not change the color, and the aroma too? Now I am faced with this behavior.

[Radushka]

Radushka, thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.
So many subtleties, you just can't figure it out.

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, Yes. They do not change either color or aroma. They can lose, of course. But I think YOU are no longer in danger

They can lose, of course. But I think YOU are no longer in danger

I didn't quite understand ... But I think without a bad sense ...

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, only in a good way, of course

[Konstantin]

without leaves of a tea bush, just a water infusion or decoction

Konstantin, so I would not speak out in the topic, not being in the topic, so as not to disgrace myself. Tea is a way of making a drink, not a decoction of a particular plant. Here you like Chinese camellia tea, perhaps you simply have nothing to compare. And other people like fireweed, alder, fruit tree leaves, aromatic herbs ... Because they have something to compare with. In addition, they like to create such wonderful teas themselves, which are a pleasure for body and soul. And do not drink camellia, simply because they do not know other teas. By the way, the Queen of England is the largest owner of tea plantations in the world and, accordingly, the largest supplier of Chinese camellia teas in the world. So she sells this tea to everyone, including you, and she herself prefers to drink fireweed tea, by the way, a much more ancient drink than the medicinal infusion of Chinese camellia, which you call tea. And she, you see, has something to compare with.
All people are different.

Thyme, oregano and mint are also missing. It seems that the neighbors had mint, but they do not, and it is inconvenient to go into someone else's garden.
What can be replaced? Or are they principled in the composition?

Either lavender (priority), or oregano, or mint, or some other spicy-aromatic herb, whatever is available. Although they are not required, they are simply desirable

Name which leaves and how many are available and ... maybe you can find the right composition.

ABOUT, Radushka, Thank you!!! Helped me out while I was gone

currants, like raspberries, when frozen / defrosting, does it not change the color, and the aroma too?

No, they do not change, they only strengthen.

By the way, tested gray alder!
The taste and aroma are close, but an order of magnitude weaker than that of black alder. In addition, there is a somewhat herbal flavor. But on the other hand, there is no bitterness, at all, and even velvety sweetness is felt. Astringency and aftertaste are the same as in black alder, only slightly less pronounced.

By the way, I tested gray alder!
The taste and aroma are close, but an order of magnitude weaker than that of black alder. In addition, there is a somewhat herbal flavor. But on the other hand, there is no bitterness, at all, and even velvety sweetness is felt. Astringency and aftertaste are the same as in black alder, only slightly less pronounced.

Thank you so thank you !!!! In this case, what will be found will be done from that!

Tea is a way of making a drink, not a decoction of a particular plant.

I'm understood, thank you! I'm going to cook a rooster soup ...

I'm understood, thank you! I'm going to cook a rooster soup ...

This is the right decision and recipe to help you.

https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=414347.0

[Zachary]

ZacharyWhere did the avatar go?

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, good evening !
Walked around the neighborhood, no geranium at all?
I understand that it is added for a rich color.
And if you replace it with a pear or black chokeberry?
She got hold of lemongrass and lemon balm from neighbors. What do you think goes best with this tea?

no geranium at all

Can not be! It grows everywhere, yesterday I saw whole glades of it, it is just blooming.


She is for color. if not, then Ivan tea, an apple tree, is better for color than a pear or black chokeberry.
I don’t know about lemongrass, I didn’t do it, but lemon balm has a rather pronounced specific aroma, no matter how it would give tea with medications later. Better then mint or pear.

Can not be! It grows everywhere, yesterday I saw whole meadows of it, it just blooms

We do not have glades, around the village there is a continuous Bryansk forest
With additives everything is clear, thanks.

no glades, around the village is a continuous Bryansk forest

Well, then there are glades in the forest, there are also edges and woods. There it grows

The main desire is to find, but you can find everything and always.

There is no garlic anywhere, at least in our country.
And you won't be able to go to the field - we are in a war between hunting farms, they poked fittings wherever possible so that they would not go.
My husband wanted to go mushroom picking last Friday, cut the wheel.
We sit without leaving, kukuem, we wait for the son to bring
The forest cornflower is full.

Strange, we have a lot of geraniums, but it is forest (with blue flowers) grows next to houses, makes up and complements weeds, from meadow (purple flowers), yes, you need to look, but it also grows almost everywhere, only a little.

On the accuracy of recipes.
The day before yesterday I picked up another portion of Ivan-tea, but a little far from the usual place. Today we got a completely different color of ready-made tea leaves, although I did the same two previous portions. It seems that everything affects: location, weather, growth time, how it grows, etc.

I honestly didn’t expect that there would be such a breathtaking scent when drying alder
This is something extraordinary, so wonderful, no smell, aroma
Collected almost everything, today I picked apples, dried.
I will do it based on 500 grams of alder.
More husband refuses to twist

[Podmosvichka]

Podmosvichka, well, everything, my patience has run out! The rain will pass now, I will go to look in my jungle, through abandoned and overgrown dachas to the river bank, to the fishing line along it! How many odes of praise can you listen to? You have to look for yourself already!

I will do it based on 500 grams of alder

Right! you need to start small and change the proportions for yourself, according to your taste. Some may have little bitterness, but some may have a lot. Someone needs to focus on something, on raspberries or alder. So little by little, your recipe is selected.

You have to look for yourself already!

I'm sure there will be

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, come on, come on
My linen sheet is so airy, at least wrap yourself up and walk
If what, I'm teasing

My linen sheet is so airy, at least wrap yourself up and walk

Here, our regiment of aromanarics has arrived

This is something extraordinary, so wonderful, no smell, aroma

Now, when I was spinning the leaves yesterday, I couldn’t smell everything and I cannot describe this aroma, this is something unusual, but very pleasant. Now I'm waiting for what will happen after drying, or rather dry fermentation. Immediately after drying, the aroma was modest, completely different, but today it has already changed slightly.

Immediately after drying, the aroma was modest, completely different, but today it has already changed slightly.

Yes, he returns surprisingly quickly! Slightly different, but very close and very aromatic

The first attempt to search for any kind of alder along the banks of the river failed miserably. There is simply no continuous forest of maple, poplar and elm (photo below). Apparently, it was the elm that I associated with alder, I saw it but not that

And the leaves are similar. Still cones and earrings for them

And the leaves are similar. Still cones and earrings for them

The leaves are similar to gray alder. Today I made a sortie and typed both gray and black. Earrings on old trees, but not on young ones. Gray determined that there was a tall tree nearby, there were bumps on it, and tore from the undergrowth. And yet, the cut of the twigs turns red. Black is not a problem to define, it is sticky.

elm (photo below

And we call it birch.


Yes, it's an elm. The Internet writes.

[Light]

Light, you also have a kind of elm, there are quite a few of them Interesting local name

[Yuri K]

Interesting local name

Yuri K, yeah

Congratulate me! I picked some black alder! You have to tear a little. Because at this temperature (+35 in the shade) and strong wind, the leaves dry quickly even in a cotton pillowcase! But, with a kilogram of narwhal, so I'll do a couple of mix parties. True, you still need to pluck the apple trees, but this will have to be done locally, in the city. I will only get into the forest on Sunday. But, the temperature is promised to be even higher ... In any case, I am terribly happy with the mined

Congratulate me! I picked some black alder!

Anya, congratulations! How little we need for joy! Yesterday I also successfully surveyed two banks of the river, a gray one grows on one, and a black one on the other. And along the way I found two wild apple trees, on one the leaves are light and dry, and on the other dark and shiny. I will mix them into a mix. And I want to make the gray and black separately the same composition in order to compare.

[Nadia]

Oh girls, how cool! Nadia, great idea!
By the way, the apple tree can be replaced with a pear, it will be very fragrant. I'm going to do so next weekend.

By the way, the apple tree can be replaced with a pear, it will be very fragrant. I

Lina, I love the apple tree for its unobtrusive aroma and beautiful color, I add it to all mixes. I made a mix with a pear, now I want an apple tree, cherry, vanilla and alder. The first three components I really like the taste and aroma, but alder, I think, will further improve the mix.
It is a pity that we did not succeed in finding spicy aromatic herbs here, they sell only dill with parsley. I would have been in Kursk, I would have found everything, but so ... what is, but still tasty and fragrant.

But, the temperature is promised even higher

At 10:00 it was +54 in the sun. Now +51 in the sun.

[Light]

Light, in my shadow now +32. North window.
I'm not going to go out into the sun. In the morning I picked up everything for pickling cucumbers and picked tomatoes

At 10:00 it was +54 in the sun. Now +51 in the sun.

We need to use it to good use, like I do for example

So the heat has come, it's time to dry the tomatoes.Walk like this







here a little only 50 kg

Sorry that it's not true about alder, but even so

Oh, Zachary ... don't step on a sore corn! Our tomatoes are just beginning and, it seems, are already running out

Our tomatoes are just beginning and, it seems, are already running out

And I have nothing to buy them for
And there is nothing to dry in the sun.

[Zachary]

Zachary, I have only one thing from your Red carpet
Eh, I can't look at your abundance without tears, I went to another topic

And you thought why in Evpatoria they keep the thousand-year ruins?
So that there is where the tomatoes are dried

Lina! I DID IT!
Alders -40%, strawberries, raspberries, currants, apples, the remaining 60% in equal parts.
The brewed one turned out to be slightly opalescent. I think it's because of the variety of my apple tree. I noticed that summer varieties give a light haze. Excellent tea color, slightly reddish, aroma-taste-astringency-light bitterness-excellent aftertaste!
In short ... Whoever lacks in OUR teas those qualities that are in the "black shop", you can / should make an alder mix!
py. sy. My alder is black. We haven't looked for the gray yet

Lina! I DID IT!

And I knew what you would do! It is so tasty and aromatic that you can't help but do it!
By the way, I also have it a little opalescent, apparently from alder.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, this "dregs" does not bother me at all. So ... Thank you so much for the alder discovery!