Related fermented willow tea with various additives

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Related fermented willow tea with various additives

Ingredients

fireweed (ivan-tea)
rosebuds, meadowsweet flowers, chamomile, etc.

Cooking method

  • I invite all tea lovers to do a little creativity. Have you heard of Chinese tied tea? We are also with hands! Let's try?
  • How I did it. First, I gathered young tops of willow-tea and lateral young shoots, it is ideal to do this in the spring, but now you can also find it.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • We cut off the lower leaves, leaving only a few apical, the youngest ones.
  • We dry them.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • We carefully fold it into a "sheaf".
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • Next, we take a thread and tie it.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • I knead with a rolling pin.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • And I'm sending it to fermentation. After that we cut off the "leg" and straighten the leaves. Note that this is a very delicate job.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • Then I carefully bent all the leaves up
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • She took out rosebuds, meadowsweet flowers, chamomile, etc. from her stocks.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • I put them inside my Ivan-Chayevsky blank, while the cuttings of flowers were pushed into the "sheaf" where it was tied with threads.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • This whole ball of mine, although it turned out far from the ideal ball, I wrapped in cheesecloth and put to dry.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives
  • I frantically ran all over the apartment - what could I use to brew my magic ball so that you could see how it was opening ... I have no transparent teapot. I had to take a wide glass. I thought that nothing would work, but no! The ball began to crumble before our eyes, the leaves lay on the edge of the glass.
  • Related fermented willow tea with various additives It is a pity that I did not have a transparent teapot. The picture would have turned out not at all bad.
  • Conclusions from everything done:
  • one). It was necessary to take more willow-tea twigs so that this "sheaf" was thicker, since it was problematic to cover all the contents with so many leaves.
  • 2). In no case will I add meadowsweet flowers there anymore (outright disgusting). (IMHO). Tea had to be poured
  • 3). This is a great gift for friends !!!

Note

I look forward to repeating from you, dear tea-makers, tea lovers! What are your options?
This is just an idea, each of you will have its own embodiment. You are welcome in my topic, I will be glad.

filirina
Wow!!!!!!! The Chinese are resting !!!! Thank you for such beauty and wonderful idea !!!
Galina Iv.
Irina, thanks, try, add your thoughts). It opens slowly when you pour boiling water and it turns out very beautifully. I had nothing to weld in so that I could show it in all its glory.
Galina Iv.
I came up with, you can put red meadow clover, it has big bright "cones".
filirina
I wonder if orchids (phalaenopsis) have edible flowers? And then I have all the windowsills filled with them and bloom all year round ...
Galina Iv.
yeah ... interesting ... I haven't read about the benefits, but also about the toxicity)
Galina Iv.
About orchids: oddly enough it sounds, people used to eat some of their species as a kind of magic potion. In the Golden Horde, every warrior always had dried tubers of this plant with him. Due to their special composition, they could easily replace lunch and dinner at the same time, since they were a powerful energy source.
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But I somehow really doubt the ecology of our urban air ...
lappl1
Check mark! I came here to express my enthusiasm too! The beauty! Thank you for a beautiful recipe, beautiful tea! Need more ideas for colors. Then you can wind up a lot of such tea!
lappl1
Quote: Galina Iv.
I came up with, you can put red meadow clover, it has big bright "cones".
I tried to brew it. They say it lowers cholesterol! So, it tastes bitter. True, I brewed it fresh. Maybe you can ferment it?
Loksa
Beauty of seagulls
I, too, are meadows-taVo flowers ..! Take your time like this - I'm taking notes for me: clover flowers - beauty + bitterness, that's exactly what I like

You can also use cornflowers and chicory flowers.
lappl1
Girls, what kind of flower is this. We bought a house, it was already growing here on the site. So from year to year it blooms with such beautiful red flowers. Our villagers call him bergamot. But in fact, what is it:
Related fermented willow tea with various additives
The leaves smell delicious! If you give the go-ahead, I will cut off all the heads of the flowers.
Loksa
Like northern bergamot, I'll remember the name, I've already laid my eyes on it (I think with fermentation will it work like with mint?) Oh sclerosis, that is, a girl's memory !!!
Loksa
Monarda !! sometimes red crimson (favorite color) white and greenish-white I have crimson!
I'll correct it again. Lyudochka is a very good plant, I specially bought and bred it, finally a decent bush has grown.
Do not tear your heads, leave the fry for seeds, although they will also grow from the roots without seeds, but I always take a little insurance and leave the flowers a little.
Rada-dms
lappl1, clover flowers were prescribed to my son for allergies
Loksa
Hurrah! our clover flower is royal.
What about calendula? and these --- marigolds- (little chrysanthemums)?
And tie the nasturtium in a bundle! - started the work of the brain, it's a pity I'm not at the dacha!
Tusya Tasya
Girls, do not forget about the black shaves (tagetes or marigolds). They can be tea and look beautiful.
Calendula is bitter.
An4utka
Wow, an interesting idea, you have to try))
And on the contrary, I like meadowsweet Such a delicate honey taste ...
Loksa
I also like the smell of meadowsweet, but when we withered the leaves and began to ferment, a bright aroma of anise appeared (as we defined it) and immediately knocked us down, having thought, decided that this was too much. th; although there is "anisovka" (either tea, or medicine)
Try it, it will be interesting to know your opinion!
Tagetis can be different, I respect him very much.
natushka
Should you use dried flowers or ferment and dry them with the leaves?
Loksa
Galina wrote dried, in any case I did not ferment. I was going to make honey syrup from them (raw), but I changed my mind because of the strong aroma. But you try and tell us. Please note that with normal drying, the treatment of the Holy Island is preserved.
lappl1
Quote: Loksa
Monarda !! sometimes red crimson (favorite color) white and greenish-white I have crimson! I'll correct it again. Lyudochka, a very good plant ... Don't tear your heads, leave the fry for seeds, although they will also grow from the roots without seeds, but I always take a little insurance and leave a little flowers.
Ksyusha, Thank you ! And then for the third year I have been trying to find out what this beauty is called. So I have a raspberry monard. Okay, I won't rip off all the heads, I'll leave them for seeds.
Quote: Loksa
(I think with fermentation will it work like with mint?)
It will work! I fermented it for the first year - it worked out a lot!
lappl1
Quote: Rada-dms
clover flowers were prescribed to my son for allergies
Rada-dms, Thank you! So I will dry these flowers until the locals have mowed everything for their goats.
lappl1
Quote: Loksa
What about calendula? and these --- marigolds- (little chrysanthemums)?
Yesterday I already looked askance at mine ... Beauty, but I associate her taste with medicine - as a child, my grandmother made her throat gargle with broth.
lappl1
Quote: Tusya Tasya
do not forget black shaves (tagetes or marigolds). They can be tea and look beautiful.
Tusya Tasya, I also laid eyes on them yesterday. We must try to dry it and taste it. I know that it is recommended to add them to marinades, but I have not tried it.
Galina Iv.
Quote: Loksa
flowers cornflowers
Yes, Yes, Oksana, a good idea - flowers of cornflowers! Thank you!
Quote: natushka
And use dried flowers or ferment
i used dried flowers
Galina Iv.
Quote: lappl1
And then for the third year I have been trying to find out what this beauty is called
Of course, monarda), it is sold in garden centers and summer residents plant it to decorate their gardens, but it is also fragrant!
Galina Iv.
Good afternoon everyone! Last night I went into elite tea shop and bought Chinese tea related.
4 small balls cost 450 rubles.
About 3 cm in size. Strong like a nut. I bought it with jasmine and some other red flower. Brewed .. what can I tell you ?? He began to open gradually and these flowers were not at all ah!
Related fermented willow tea with various additives
Galina Iv.
A red flower, I admit that it is a hibiscus, is tied with a thread to the base. The jasmine flower garland is also on a string. The ball itself is also tied with a thread about in the middle. The taste of tea .... bitterness from bitterness, except for jasmine, no aroma. I had to dilute it several times and still bitter. I agree that I am not a gourmet in teas, but I have absolutely no pleasure.
Galina Iv.
The purpose of my purchase is to gut and understand how they connect it
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Galina Iv.
My conclusion: I am sure that our craftsmen are able to create such a deity that the Chinese have never even dreamed of!
fly tsetse
Quote: Galina Iv.
4 small balls cost 450 rubles.
I am shocked, here Russia gives! In China, this tea costs 350 rubles 100 gr. They have a bunch of about 1.5 cm in diameter, it feels like only the leaves are connected, and the flower in the center looks like a gomphrenus (at least it feels like a dried-up prickly flower). And I like the idea of ​​clover.
Galina Iv.
A ball with purple amaranth flowers, that's what I bought, which means a red amaranth flower.
Galina Iv.
Quote: tsetse fly
and the flower in the center looks like a gomphrene (at least it feels like a dried flower, prickly).
All the contents inside the flower are dried, since everything is dried simultaneously already in this ball. Tea leaves are not fermented there, we have already gone further
lappl1
Quote: Galina Iv.
I went to an upmarket tea shop last night and bought a Chinese tied tea
Checkmark, your tea is a thousand times better! And I'm sure it tastes better!
lappl1
Quote: Galina Iv.
Tea leaves are not fermented there, we have already gone further
And why, one wonders, is such money being fought? Didn't even bother to ferment ...
Galina Iv.
Yes, I didn’t even have the desire to drink this Chinese, word chess, bitter, like wormwood! and we will do it with the addition of currants, raspberries .. uuuhh !! What will happen!!
Galina Iv.
but on the other hand, I understood how they tie it, first a sheaf, then the leaves are folded up, once again they tie it up near the base and ALL flowers are tied with strings. But how do they dry it so that it is as hard as stone ... maybe they glue it with something? (office glue)
natushka
Quote: Galina Iv.
maybe something is glued together?
Maybe with sugar, as before, the napkins were starchy to make them tough.
filirina
I suppose it is pressed while wet, then dried.
Galina Iv.
watched the video now: they take twigs of tea with one leaf, dry them, make a sheaf, and put also dried flowers inside and dry again
GenyaF
Girls, what can you replace with fireweed? Well, we don't have it. And if I try the almond leaves, what do you think?
Galina Iv.
GenyaF, Crimea, Black Sea .... how I want to go there! Try and share your experience). but we don't have almonds
Loksa
GenyaF, try and tell us, all of a sudden we are with: teatr: by chance and to your edge, to cut off the leaves, we only have chestnuts and those in the city. Has anyone gotten to the chestnut? its leaves are large.
GenyaF
Pebble and Oksanochka! You don't have to want, you have to go! There is an abandoned almond garden nearby
We still have a tree, the locals call it the Crimean olive. It has small and slightly rough fruits, slightly sweetish, lanceolate leaves ... I would venture ...
Loksa
Quote: filirina
I guess they press it while it's wet, n
I think so too. Maybe the flowers wither and the juice of the leaves (such as with sticky hands) is twisted.
Oh, well, I'm lying in their almond garden, no, what am I doing in the North? In any case, you should try to stir up the almonds for tea, in extreme cases steam the arms and legs as a joke.
Galina Iv.
Quote: Loksa
Maybe the flowers wither and the juice of the leaves (such as with sticky hands) is twisted.
our fantasy is worse than the Chinese
Loksa
and we are still only considering this, but if we think about it….
Galina Iv.
and with what sanctions are we intimidated? we can do everything, I dream that our past agriculture will be revived.I can grow so many things on my 2 acres of garden that I will feed the whole family and friends! Yes, and there will be tea today
Loksa
And I dream of living in my house and drinking tea by the chestnut at a round table. ….
True, I want more than 2 hectares. And I am always amazed how people manage to grow everything on a small piece of land? Heroes!
Galina Iv.
Oksana, I have 10 acres, but the remaining 8 are lawns, a pond, a garden))))

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