Fermented tea "Currant Benefit" from black currant leaves and other

[Fermented tea "Currant Benefit" from black currant leaves and other garden plants]

Fermented tea "Currant Benefit" from black currant leaves and other

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Ingredients
black currant leaves	1 kg 500 g
apple tree leaves	500 g
strawberry leaves	500 g
raspberry leaves	500 g

Cooking method

• Fermented tea "Currant Benefit" from black currant leaves and other garden plants
• I wish you good health to all tea-makers, tea-lovers, tea-fans and those who just decided to drop by the light!
• Again I fulfill the request of the owner of our Tea Club Ludmila lappl1 and I present to your judgment several options for currant tea, which is also based on the recipe

  Fermented tea made from leaves of garden and wild plants (master class) (lappl1)

• Black currant has long enjoyed well-deserved success among all fans of full bins. A wonderful plant, the berries of which we gladly eat raw, in the form of a variety of jams, compotes, raw jellies. And we use the leaves as a fragrant addition to pickles and marinades.
• Oh, what a temptation to make a REAL tea from blackcurrant leaves!
• But alas and ah! In the mono version, the currant turns out to be insidious. It requires special conditions! ABSOLUTELY does not form granules when twisted in a meat grinder. And the color of the brewed tea is very little like tea, as we are used to seeing it.
• I wanted to find a partner for the currant who would compensate for these shortcomings and not overshadow the advantages of this magnificent plant!
• Three versions of currant tea were made.
• Currants (50%) - apple (50%), currants (50%) - strawberries (50%) and currants (50%) - raspberries (50%).
• The first two teas are granulated, the third is sliced.
• The leaves wither and froze as they accumulated. They froze well, because I don't have so many currants and it was difficult to accumulate. Freeze-thaw three times.
• The leaves were twisted well. Twisted it twice. The first on a large grid, the second on a smaller one.
• Sheet - rolled "rolls" and immediately cut. Quite wide, because the currant leaf was not cut as well as the raspberry one. I was torn. She covered the sliced ​​tea with a wet towel, a plate and put a jar of kvass as oppression.
• All teas were fermented 3 hours prior to drying. I dried all three teas in a dryer at 70 degrees. BUT ... 1/3 of the chopped currant-raspberry was fried in the oven at 125 for 10 minutes.
• Result: granules with strawberries are stronger and larger than with apple trees and much larger.
• with apple tree
• with strawberry
• with raspberries
• Color is strongest with strawberries.
• with an apple tree slightly opalescent, probably due to weak granules, but, the shade is beautiful
• with raspberries less intense than with strawberries, but more "tea" than with apple
• The taste ... with an apple tree is mild, with a strong currant note. With strawberries, it is more tart, harder and less visible currants. But, it is quite recognizable. The most delicious was the mix with raspberries. Quite bright currant taste and aroma, and raspberries do not muffle it at all, but only emphasize it.
• All teas, in my opinion, may well be called currant.
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• I consider the experience successful. The aroma-taste of the currant was preserved, the color appeared.
• P.S. It's a pity, of course, that currants with raspberries are not granulated ... Eh ...

The dish is designed for

1 kg 300 g

Time for preparing:

three days

Cooking program:

freezer, meat grinder, dryer, oven

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[Radushka]

Radushka, I'm the first for a tea!

[Alla]

Alla, come in! Always glad to have guests!

Radushka, thank you !!! And where can I get so many currants? So I want to try everything!

And where can I get so many currants?

Itself barely saved up! I still want to make a mix of all the presented ones, yes, only from the heat the currants began to burn! If the late varieties of foliage are retained, maybe I'll take another batch.

[Radushka]

Radushka, but last year I made tea from forest currants, and somehow not very much. Well, the leaves are not fragrant in the forest. We must get it to try, tea is hidden somewhere far away. And she planted a garden one when she grows up now ...

And the color of the tea, as in the photo? Or is it reddish on my phone.
Today I made tea, after the first spinning there were almost no granules, I thought there would be dust, but after fermentation I ran it through a fine grate, dried the tea, the granules were preserved.

[Alla]

Alla, this is. More reddish with apple, less with strawberries. The most "tea" one with raspberries. And the granules with the apple tree are red, with the strawberries are dark green

Added on Tuesday 19 Jul 2016 10:49 pm

Vasyutka, Nataliya, but I thought that the forest should have more fragrant! On the weekend, maybe I'll go to the woods for some blackberries. If the husband doesn't go on a business trip ... and if it doesn't rain

Itself barely saved up!

I collected 3 liters of currants from one bush and 200 grams of leaves (raw), even less when dried. We need to find 7 more bushes, no 6 - I still have one. I'll go to the neighbors to beg

and after fermentation, rolled it through a fine wire rack

And I would not have guessed to scroll after fermentation and immediately into drying. Here I am a head or two ears. I spun it on fine before fermentation, while it was drying, I already turned gray by half a head, I thought the granules would be preserved or not. Now I will do this too.

The welcome is very timely! Thank you very much. I am currently mastering the tea-deed. Therefore, there are a lot of questions. You girls are professionals and cut the text. And we, teapots, want details. My leaves are still in the freezer.

Freeze and thaw three times.

first question. Did I understand correctly - got it. thawed completely and froze again. without taking it out of the package?

The leaves were twisted well.

is it thawed after the third time?

She covered the sliced ​​tea with a wet towel, a plate and put a jar of kvass as oppression.
All teas were fermented 3 hours prior to drying.

and the one that was fermented like granules?
after drying, granulated immediately into a container for storage?
thanks for the answers and I apologize for being boring, but as the children said, there was not enough tea for mom with her affairs and worries

And I'll have a cup

[Tumanchik]

Tumanchik, Irina, I forgive meticulousness. Although, at the very beginning of my recipe there is a link to the main master class. Everything is described in great detail there. In such detail that no additional questions should arise.
And we always send all the new ones there. to the first page

Fermented tea made from leaves of garden and wild plants (master class) (lappl1)

But, of course, I will answer here point by point.

Did I understand correctly - got it. thawed completely and froze again. without taking it out of the package?

Yes, I took it out of the freezer and kept it warm, but not in the sun. Just in the kitchen. Until the moment I realized that the leaves in the bag were thawed. Then I put them back in the freezer. You can do this an infinite number of times.

is it thawed after the third time?

Yes, after the third defrost. Before twisting, I took them out of the bag, thawed them and waited until they dry out a little and ventilate.

and the one that was fermented like granules?

and the one in granules was fermented without oppression and without compaction. Just under a damp towel.
The fermentation layer should not be less than 5 cm and not more than 10 cm.
After drying, the tea is ALWAYS poured into a pillowcase and hung out for a couple of days so that some of the moisture returns to the tea. Then she poured it into an airtight container for storage.
If you are engaged in tea making, you need to work out well (with a pen and a notebook) the recipe of our tea guru

Added on Tuesday 19 Jul 2016 11:19 pm

Light, three?

Added on Tuesday 19 Jul 2016 11:30 pm

Victory me, so one kind of tea can be made. How long will the currant leaves last? One batch needs 500 g (approximately) and the same amount in a pair. What's the first thing in the plans?

[Radushka]

Light, three?

RadushkaI'm afraid I will write

[Light]

Light, oh well ... delicious! especially the one with raspberries!

If you are engaged in tea making, you need to work out well (with a pen and a notebook) the recipe of our tea guru

eseisenno. just a new recipe - new technologies. better to ask again. thanks for answers

[Radushka]

Radushka, Thank you! We have a bulk of currants - come, the weather is rainy this summer, the leaf is now green and crunchy, but now all the time is spent on picking the currant itself, as we pick the berries, we will pick the leaves, and now Ivanushka is also walking and we are ridding the apple trees of tops .. ... from the apple tops to the currant, the leaf will go! Thanks again for the recipe, a separate recipe is still more convenient and clearer, everything seems to be clear, but repetition is the mother of learning!

[Mandraik Ludmila]

Mandraik Ludmila, Ludmila, if not so far, I would have come. And so ... current, like Svetyashka ...

[Radushka]

Radushkawhat a fine fellow !!! I laid out a separate recipe! Hurrah! There will now be a recipe where we will collect everything about currants!
Thank you!
Now I will study everything in more detail

Added Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 00:37

The most delicious was the mix with raspberries.

For some reason, this does not surprise me

[Radushka]

Yeah, Radushka, we are far from each other ... but thanks to HP, we all got together here and learned this ... sometimes I envy myself how much I learned and learned on HP in less than a year ... Thanks again for the recipe , already in the bookmarks, what a boo!

[Elena]

Elena, you're too early ... stopped being surprised

you're too early ...

Why is this? Are there any more new experiments with currants ahead?
We seem to promise an end to the rains. I plan to do currants. I want to mix with rowan, otherwise I don't have an apple tree ...

[Elena_Kamch]

Elena_Kamch, but can you list WHAT you have?

[Radushka]

Radushka, yes this year, except for Ivan-tea, there is almost nothing
A little red rowan nearby in the forest, a little raspberry bushes. No strawberries. Well, I also hope to collect currants for a couple of raziks, I hope so (if I pick up a little from the neighbors)
Aaaa, well, also forest geranium, but I don't see any point in mixing currants with it. I want currant tea!
And Ivanushka is also not an option, in my opinion ... Suddenly he will score a currant. Or add% 30 ...

[Elena_Kamch]

Elena_Kamch, Elena, no, raspberries just do. And that's all. Ivancha will score everything like a cherry

Do you think rowan is not an option? She tastes like neutral ...

I sit drinking coffee, and here is Radushka with currant tea, well, what kind of coffee can it be? Pour!
Well done!
I will not argue, otherwise you will expel (our eternal dispute!). Yesterday I dried granulated currants with ivanushka, I think about it with strawberries, the neighbors have extra tops. How do they tolerate me?

Added Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 05:09

And yes, maybe I'll swing at the cut ?! (well, I don’t like to twist and cut!) But it’s so deliciously painted ...

Oh, how interesting! I have not yet reached the currants, from the garden-forest ones I am slowly doing it, little by little. Or maybe to make currants + raspberries + apple-tree, or instead of an apple-tree something more or less neutral, but good granulating? Currants 50%, and the rest of the mixture 50%

[elena kadiewa]

Yesterday I dried granulated currants with ivanushka

elena kadiewa, Len, in what proportion did you do it? Can you feel the currant?

Well, I don't weigh! Everything by eye, but about 1/4 of currants, all the same the granules are dryish. Didn't brew, I don't like it right away.

Added Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 07:05 AM

Yanka, keep in mind, both currants and raspberries are crumbled. Or will you be cut?

Well, I don't weigh!

: Friends: Yes, and I don't weigh. I wanted to know, at least how it looked. And when will you brew? Not at all soon?
1/4 is not enough for me ... I want currant

[Elena]

Elena, I think, if the currants are less than 50%, you will not hear it. I love a pear, but it will most likely drown out the currants.
As for "by eye" ... Visually, raspberries and currants occupy a larger volume on the sheet, when thawed, than other perfumes.
Chopped currant-raspberry took up so much space that ... I was once again convinced that I will not make chopped teas! Unless, if someone orders specifically

[Radushka]

Radushka, and in the cut currants feel good?
I, here, too, sheet-cut .... nope ... And so much work and space take!

and in the cut currant feel good?

Very well! Real, currant! I was afraid that frying would get in the way. No, all is fine! But, I only fried 1/3, and I simply dried the bulk at 70. And nothing to do with just a dried leaf

Hello! Well, I teased ..... I will find raspberries, there are a lot of them, but where to get currants .... Let's think ...

[Nadyushich]

Nadyushich, When I was a teenager, I worked part-time on vacation at a fruit farm near Fatezh, picking black currants

[Radushka]

Radushka, Tell me, tea dried in the dryer and in the oven are significantly different? When Lyudochka got the recipe for tea, I dried it in a dryer. Initially, it was in the recipe. So I wonder if there is a difference in taste?

[Natalia-65]

Natalia-65, Natasha, I did not dry the first teas in the oven for long, and then I dried them in the dryer. I did then in large batches. It seems to me that their aroma is stronger. Maybe when this year's tea is infused, it will be the same.

one kind of tea can be made this way.

Of course you can have one, but you want everything !!! in the previous Vanechka and currants, there were about equal parts of the leaves, currant predominates in the smell, but Vanechka is also felt. I have quite a few strawberries (as an option, of course, you can replace with wild strawberries), if you collect something a little by the fall ... It's also tempting with raspberries, but twisting rolls, I have a sad experience with leaf tea. In short, first I'll pick the currants, and then we'll see. But the currant smells just super, it can only be interrupted by the cherry (it will tell me so). Anyway, thanks for the recipe !!!

[Natasha]

tea dried in the dryer and in the oven are significantly different?

Natasha, it also depends on the temperature and whether there is a fan. My dryer gives a maximum of 70 (actually, I think, less), and an oven - at least 100 and without a fan. With the door ajar, even without a fan, there is clearly more there than in my dryer.
At least at 100 on the regulator, the tea dries faster. Visually, the color of the leaves is preserved in the dryer more. The taste .. I tried the part that was fried, brew separately. The taste of the currant is still clearly audible

Added Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 1:09 PM

Victory me, to your health! And here I am ... having tasted currants with strawberries, I decided to make raspberries with strawberries. The leaves are already defrosting

I decided to make raspberries and strawberries too

And I have already thawed and rolled the apple tree with raspberries, the last ones, it's time to go to the village for the foliage!

Yanka, keep in mind, both currants and raspberries are crumbled. Or will you be cut?

So I wrote that to this mixture, add something binder, well granulated, so that everything is granulated together. Will not work? Not ready for the cut yet ...

[Yanka]

Yanka, Tatyana, add strawberries. With it, the granules become very strong.Only the legs of the strawberry leaves can break a meat grinder! Must be cut off. So far, I do not see anything that can replace apple and strawberries in currant tea. In order not to drown out the bright taste of currants and form granules ... Everyone is good with raspberries, but ... in mono they still form somehow weak ones, but not with currants! And I don't want to add berries at all. then it will look like a compote. Although, does someone like it? Try adding currant berries to the leaves! The currant taste will become vigorous. Maybe the granules will appear? Natasha Koval does it in her recipe!

Fermented tea from garden leaves with fruits and berries (Fruit tea) (Natalya Koval)

Girlsiiii !!!! I got this tea !!! Thank you very much to the author of the recipe!
My husband and I arrived at their tea plot by the forest and came across a bush of forest currants. Stupefying smell! And just before the trip to the forest, I read the materiel and came across this topic. Well, I could not get past this bush. The leaves on it are young, even, and fragrant, right up to the stupor. They also picked a young dog rose and wild strawberries. Well, Ivanushki, of course. All this has dried up at home, I can't say the proportions, but Ivanushki added at least 40% on purpose, because the smell of currants is very strong for me, almost aggressive. There, I also added sepals from strawberries to the mix, my husband bought it successfully, on time. I was not at all happy about the berries, as much as these sepals. The dried mixture was poured into the freezer 2 times according to the method of Zacharias. I smelled packages all the time. The bouquet of smells was amazing. I missed the meat grinder twice, the granules are strong. I put it on a fry for 10 minutes, then reduced the temperature and dried it. At the beginning of drying, the smell was, then it began to transform and disappeared altogether. No, of course, the finished tea smells a bit, but there is no such pronounced currant smell. She brewed a freshly made one, treated her daughter and son-in-law to those who came. They are delighted, asked to pour with them. They did not even want to listen to my explanations that, they say, dry fermentation and so on. I also liked the seagulls. The smell during brewing is mild, not obtrusive, the taste is there, very pleasant, not watery, well felt, the color of the infusion is brown, closer to dark.
In general, I am very pleased and inspired! Thanks to all the girls for sharing their experience, and thanks to the experimental authors !!!))

[Irina]

Irina, To your health! BUT ... try on occasion to make tea with currants without frying the whole batch. Although ... I understand that she smells strong. My cherry everywhere "stinks"

[Radushka]

Radushkawithout frying, how is it? Just dry at 100 degrees? Or should the temperature be even lower?

[Irina]

Irina, At 70-80 2/3 of the entire batch, and 1/3 by frying (10 minutes at 150, then 10 minutes at 100, then dry, if not dry yet, at 70-80). Currant aroma disappears at high temperatures. The taste is true, I can still hear it well

Good afternoon, Radushka and all the honest company, a few days ago I poured her long-suffering Ivanushka-blackcurrant into a tin can, the smell just flew away, he smelled like currants so well, and in 3 days he gained even more smell, Vanechka is not felt at all, only currants ... Thank you!!! I want more emergency mixes

[Victory me]

Victory me, I am very glad that currant tea turned out! I myself am waiting when I collect more leaves for the new party!

Good day to all tea lovers! Not so long ago, I began to read the correspondence on the site on cooking issues and am delighted. Fermented bird cherry, mountain ash. Everything turned out very tasty, thanks to everyone for the advice. I ask you to respond and write someone fermented hawthorn leaves, otherwise I have very few berries ?! And poke the new "employee" with a nose where Zachariah's method is written about freezing leaves without withering, thanks in advance.

[Yulka Zavidulka]

Yulka Zavidulka, I fermented hawthorn. Forms granules.Although not as strong, but tolerable (better than raspberries). Tea in color and taste is very similar to a highly diluted rosehip broth (fruit).
Zakhari did not write anywhere about freezing without withering. He just forgot, then he added. Anyway, you have to wither first. Dry the leaves, tightly wrapped in fabric

Method of hardening tea leaves in preparation for fermentation (Zachary)