Fermented tea "Astringent Apple"

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Fermented Tea Astringent Apple

Ingredients

apple tree leaves 55-65%
alder leaves 20%
oak leaves 15%
Ivan tea leaves (pears, plums, raspberries, blackberries, currants .....) - option 10-15%

Cooking method

  • Among the many fans of my fermented teas, there are many tart teas. It was for them that I conducted research and experiments, trying to find such tea ingredients that this part of tea lovers would be satisfied too. Alder discovered earlier worked well for replenishing the astringency in tea, but as it turned out, this astringency begins to slowly decrease after 4 months of dry fermentation. And suddenly I got the idea to try oak leaves for this purpose, which I did. Experiment Report here... The scent of fermented oak was found to have a distinct "apple note". So I decided to make a new tea with apple leaves to maintain and enhance this flavor. Having experimented, I have selected the optimal content of ingredients that complement and set off each other. The result is a wonderful tart tea with a pronounced balanced taste and aroma and amazing color. In all these parameters, tea strongly resembles expensive elite red Chinese tea, brewed with apple pieces. Pleasure in everything!
  • All leaves must be wilted. In addition to the leaves of apple, alder and oak, I had another 15% Ivan tea.
  • Given the rapid disappearance of the aroma of oak leaves during fermentation, an important point is the preliminary preparation of apple leaves (and / or other leaves of fruit trees and Ivan-tea) hardening method according to Zacharius... Oak and alder do not need this, only withering is enough for them. Then all the ingredients are mixed together.
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  • Scroll the leaves through a meat grinder, first through a large grate, then you can through a smaller one. Leaves spin well, granules are dense, do not crumble.
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  • Leave to ferment under the lid in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours.
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  • Fry at T = 150 * C for 15 minutes and dry in a dryer at 65-70 * C until dry (about 3-4 hours). Pour into a bag and leave for 2-3 days in the breeze. Pour over dry fermentation in a tightly closed container.
  • Tea with a delicate velvety apple flavor and aroma, light apple sourness, pronounced characteristic tea astringency and a long-lasting soft alder aftertaste, a magnificent red color.
  • I added pieces of dried apples to some of the granules, which brightened the appearance and taste of the tea.
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  • Enjoy your tea!

Note

The apple flavor and aroma largely depend on the variety of apple trees from which the leaves are collected. I collected from three varieties of autumn and summer varieties, previously tested for the severity of aroma. Instead of an apple tree, you can take the leaves of other fruit trees and their mixture.

Elena Kadiewa
Another masterpiece, Linochka!
Thank you!
Gaby
And then I think, what is the recipe on the left with a glass of some kind of drink? I go in, otherwise Linochka, dear, your recipe, was delighted with you and the recipe, as an old friend, and this is so. Thanks for the new masterpiece, I'm just sure it is. And so glad to see you and Lenusichka together.
Yuri K
ABOUT! New from Linochka! I'll have to try the oak too! I am all the same in all my mixes I do not have enough astringency Thanks for the new recipe!
Linadoc
Flax, Vikusya, Yura, Thank you! Astringency is now just enough and a wide scope for experimentation. Certainly no worse than Chinese camellia tea
Quote: Gabi
I was delighted with you and the recipe, as an old friend, and this is so.
Always glad to see you Look into "fermented garden tea ...." - our alma mater
Seberia
Wow, how lovely
This season I have already tied up with teas, and next season I will definitely experiment with oak leaves
Thank you, Linochka
Linadoc
Quote: Seberia
This season I have already tied up with teas
so, in fact, only the middle of the season! Vanka has departed, and the garden and wild ones have just begun!
Seberia
Quote: Linadoc
and garden and wild growing have just begun!
Eh, no. They started in June for me, just like Vanechka.
So I stocked up on tea for the whole 19 year
Linadoc
I have a large consumption and there are many tea lovers without Vanka. Therefore, only the middle of the season. And there are some more ideas and developments. But oak tea is my favorite now
Seberia
You know how to seduce
I'll go to the dacha on the weekend ... And I'll just look at the oaks ... I won't even take a bag with me, I'll just look at them * I persuade myself *
Linadoc
Quote: Seberia
And just look at the oaks
Sure sure! Look, touch, rip, wither and roll ..... so ..... for fun
BabaGalya
Linochka with a new recipe! What ingenious recipes your inquisitive mind gives rise to
Linadoc
BabaGalya, Thank you! Stop by to try!
kartinka
Soooo, I need to collect oak leaves too. .. otherwise I just tuned in to acorns. ...
Radushka
I don't even need to leave the garden! (Here are the verses)
Because I have a piece of FOREST in my garden! And in it there is a pine, and a high juniper, and a birch, and an oak! Only there is no alder. And, judging by the state of the alder leaves at the beginning of summer, it will no longer be possible to collect it. Linochka, but birch will not replace her? well, if the apple tree is 55%, 15% oak and 30% birch, for example?
Elena Kadiewa
Gee-gee-gee. ... the caterpillars stirred and rushed again!
Radushka
Elena Kadiewa, well, goose, so what? need get drunk to make tea, while there is still plenty!
Linadoc
Quote: Radushka
birch will not replace it? well, if the apple tree is 55%, 15% oak and 30% birch, for example?
Not birch will replace, but as an addition, 15% birch will do! Actually, that's what I thought to do next weekend.
Quote: Elena Kadiewa
caterpillars stirred and hurried again!
you won't be in time - you won't get drunk you will be left without delicious tea for long winter evenings!
Radushka
Quote: Linadoc
as an addition, 15% birch will do!
is it 70 apple trees and 15 oak and birch each?
Linadoc
No, alder is a must! There will be little taste in tea. I collect it calmly now, you should have it too. Well, or some other garden ones by 20% - pear, raspberry, blackberry ...
Radushka
Linadoc, Linochka, for almost two months we did not have a single rain and dry wind for two weeks without a breath. And my alder does not grow along the river. I'll try, of course, go to her, but I'm almost sure that in vain. In the village, a raspberry plantation stands as after a fire. Strawberry beds without leaves. Although they were watered regularly and enough. I did not wither the apple-pear leaves, but immediately put them in the freezer. There is nothing to hang around. You tear off the leg, the leaf crumbles in your hand, although it's still green. I am glad that every year I make as much tea as I can physically. There is almost nothing to make it this year.
At the beginning of the year, there are fewer of my regular "consumers". At first I was somehow upset. And now I'm even glad. people would order, but I cannot fulfill the order
Linadoc
Quote: Radushka
there are fewer of my permanent "consumers"
On the contrary, I have increased significantly! I barely have time to do it. But after this recipe, there is generally a shaft of orders. I also made it with stewed apple and alder, the taste is somewhat different - like baked apple or apple jam. Cool so!
Radushka
Linadoc, I already thought ... but should I plant an alder in my "forest?"
Linadoc
Oh, interesting idea! Although no, this big tree will be, then I will be tortured to saw.

And then, where I collect alder, such an interesting Berendey lives

Radushka
Is it growing fast?
Linadoc
Fast. But she loves water very much, a lot of water.

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