Alder tea mix

Alder tea mix

Category: The drinks

Ingredients
alder leaves	45%
raspberry leaves	13-14%
currant leaves	15%
apple tree leaves	10%
thorny leaves	8-9%
geranium leaves	3-5%
lavender (sage, oregano, thyme, mint)	3-5%

Cooking method

• This tea recipe is a continuation of the "alder" tea theme, begun after the discovery of the wonderful properties of alder leaves from a tea point of view. You can read about it here in this report... To date, for me, this is the most aromatic and delicious tea mix, not made from Ivan tea. Although you can safely replace some of this mix with Ivan tea leaves.
• I thought over and made the composition of this tea in advance, based on the main taste and aroma notes of each component of this mix. All leaves were harvested, withered and tempered by this method... It so happened that each of the components was in its own package. So I mixed them right before chopping. When all the ingredients were mixed on the sheets after hardening, there was such an amazing fabulous aroma that it is difficult to describe in words !!! An amazing floral-fruity enveloping and soothing green-sweet aroma of freshly cut white flowers, lavender and the freshest fragrant berries and fruits. Still, the Zakhar hardening method contributes to a significant identification of the taste and aroma of tea leaves. Interestingly, the leaves of the thorny plum, especially those collected from young growth with reddish leaves, after hardening, appeared a clear almond note in the aroma.
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• Then I turned this fragrant mixture twice in a meat grinder, while trying to remove the hard veins and stems from the leaves, which turned out quite simply after the hardening method. There was a decent handful.
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• The granules after the first scroll were pretty good, and after the second they were generally excellent, with dense "worms".
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• And what kind of aromatherapy was there !!! Deep fermentation has begun. At the same time, the aroma slowly changed to a thicker enveloping warm floral-fruity with delicate sweet woody notes and some kind of velvety!
• After three hours of fermentation, I roasted the granules at T = 150 * C for 15 minutes and dried them in a dryer at 60 * C until a characteristic rustling. It should be noted that the aroma did not go away, but only diminished.
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• The granules remained firm. I poured it into a bag for drying and hung it in the gazebo. Went around the bag for two days just for aromatherapy! The scent slowly changed and did not go away. On the third day, mixed with dried petals and flowers of Ivan-tea, peony, chamomile, cornflowers, geranium and lavender. I could not resist and brewed it. The aroma was amazing and the taste was fabulous! It feels at first
• a clear tea-floral aroma with hints of currant and raspberry. Further, this aroma turns into a deep and sweetish velvety floral-fruity with clear notes of lavender, almond and white flowers, but clearly the tea flavor remains. And finally, a slightly woody tart-sweet floral-raspberry aroma with a slight bitterness appears, which lasts longer than an hour. And this is the aroma and taste of tea without dry fermentation !!!
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• Without a doubt, the addition of hardened alder leaves gives exactly the tea-flower aroma to the tea. Moreover, tea is expensive, elite, long aging, with an awesome long and aromatic aftertaste.

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[Linadoc]

Linadoc, I'm the first for a tea
Thank you, Linochka!

Teeks .... are you out of your mind there ?!
Recipes are pouring in ... envy gnaws ...

[Elena Kadiewa]

Lina, I have no words. Over!
Here, at least a little heat will subside and I'll go look for an alder!



Elena Kadiewa,

[Radushka]

Radushka, can we beat you? Although ... maybe I'll try this seagull ...

maybe I'll try this gull too ...

let's try first!

Are you out of your mind ?!

can we beat you?

Will not help! I am deeply sick .... tea making

Recipes pour in like that

Well, you have to go to the dacha, the farm is waiting for new teas, but the Internet is not there. When will I bring you a treat?

let's try first!

Here's a wise decision!

I am deeply ill .... tea making

We are all sick ... of tea making

Yeah! This is the mix!
Just the benefit in every drop.

benefit in every drop.

Aha! Moreover, you can not even drink, but only smell. And to be honest, I have not yet received such a taste and awesome aftertaste.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, my God .... well, this is voooosche !!! Beauty .... I have three cups of tea .... I really love these gulls ..... thanks dear !! Well, words to Natu !!!!

just sniff

Of course, sniffing is generally the default.

Moreover, you can not even drink, but only smell

So I can't stop making tea, there are not enough of these aromas when you dry it and then poke your nose into the pillowcase ...

I have three cups of tea

Yes, at least five! I already do, so I do, in kilograms True, then I give away all over the world ... with a wide soul

sniff it by default

lack of these scents

Here, friends on aroma addiction, sniffers, drug addicts But the atmosphere The era around is always charged with positive aromas

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, hahahahaha, it's like me homemade noodles, too, my noodles fly everywhere and mint, and all kinds of herbs that I dry from my garden ... I also do not mind ... let them remember with a kind word !!

and mint, and all sorts of herbs that I dry from my garden

And I ferment them and eat them in tea or raw. And dried ones do not go with me, there is no aroma in them. And I have aroma

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, but everything goes well with me, you will also have to try fermenting ..

Crazy !!! This is the seagulls !!!!! Already drooling ran.

you will have to try to ferment too

Here, look here.

This is the seagulls !!!!!

That's it! Crazy seagull

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, thanks ... I'll read it ..

So, I understood everything!

First we'll beat you up (Well, why haven't there been new recipes for so long?)
Then we will all rush to nature, in search of Black Alder, aha!
Then, um .. EVERYTHING, we make new tea! Hurrah!
We do ... we do ... we do!
Try ... stretch the pleasure ... and ...
writing impressions right here ...

I still have black alder growing, right in my favorite place))))




By the way, why do I have a persistent premonition that after standing, this tea will acquire even more intriguing notes over time?

writing impressions right here ...

Right!!!

Why do I have a persistent premonition that after standing this tea will acquire even more intriguing notes over time?

I have a suspicion that this is the experience of an old tea-maker

What an obsession? Another smelly moved to tea And now I’ve lost my peace, now I’m eating food on working days and now I’m smiling at the trees from the window. Until the alder did not notice where to go after her? Mosk is intensely overheating

Until the alder did not notice where to go after her?

Along bodies of water, rivers, ponds, lakes, loves wetlands. In short, everything to the water!

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, I already managed to google the places of growth I and the river are almost a single whole (I am fond of fishing and photography), but I have not met along the banks yet

[Yura]

Yura, and gray alder? Her leaves are different, with sharp little tips. You can find a lot more of it along the reservoirs. I just want to try it for tea.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, we have poplar, willow, elm, elm and maple prevailing, "steppe inhabitants". Here's what you need to read about the distinctive features of the alder and aspen leaves. It’s just that I didn’t pay attention to these trees before, I could be wrong that I didn’t see them.

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, it is very difficult to confuse alder with aspen! They are absolutely different!

[Radushka]

Radushka, I understand that)) I just did not attach importance to these trees before, others prevail in most of us)
I'll find it! I will only remember the appearance of the leaves, and I will wander along the river



"In Slavic folk performances, in song folklore, alder is a woman. (Old Slavic" alder / elkha "was pronounced with an accent on the first syllable .... Helga, Elga, Olga, Elha, Alder. Beautiful Scandinavian, Varangian and ... Russian names).
Even our alder has penetrated into Orthodoxy. After all, according to the Slavic legend, alder twigs broke when Christ was scourged, for which the Savior blessed this tree. And he endowed him with special abilities: to protect people from evil spirits, to guard the house from witches and devils, etc. "

Well, the weather allowed us to run and it was very successful. I found black alder. And next to it, it looks like a gray one is growing, but I doubted something. There are no bumps .... black and without them I recognized by the leaves and sticky, and the gray one still needs to look closely.
Now I will freeze and cook a delicious mix, ivanushka, raspberries, cherries, currants in the freezer. And now she brought a pear and a blackthorn along with an alder.

[Nadyushich]

Nadyushich, I had to bring those leaves here to show!
I want to walk along the river in the village. Maybe I'll find what

Gray alder and black alder - similarities and differences, may come in handy

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It's crazy how much work has been invested ... Well, you have to love tinctures so much! Chess speaking already enviable!

I'll probably go and make myself real tea, from black leaf tea, with Frangelico nut liqueur for flavor ... Otherwise, they teased ...

[Kapet]

Kapet, you want to say that "real" tea is not a water infusion? Oh well

[Radushka]

Radushka, you can not enter into a dispute In relation to the topic, you can see what a person thinks about all this. Curious, and with God, in meat topics it is more interesting

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, so he took the "song" at the root ... hacked
eh, Yura-Yura
By the way, have you dried the meat yet? I am here and I learned this

Kapet, are you saying that "real" tea is not a water infusion? Oh well

Tea without tea is like scrambled eggs without eggs ... But yes, without tea bush leaves, just a water infusion or decoction ... So no one says that this is not tasty or healthy ...
Why use the overseas Chinese word 茶 to call the infusions and decoctions of herbs and roots that our distant tailless ancestors used even when there was no smell of tea leaves in our area?

[Radushka]

Radushka, nope, although I have read all sorts of recipes for this dish for a long time! The truth is not on the forum
I'm more on this product

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, it starts! Dazzling is not good!

[Radushka]

Radushka, yes, I'm so, by the way

Nadyushich, I should have brought those leaves here to show!

I thought about it when I was already at home ... fever ... sclerosis ...
Next time I'll pick it up, but I haven't gone around all the places, I just can't leave the house for a long time. But I'm already glad without memory, so I'll still find a black one ...

[Nadyushich]

Nadyushich, I have a tree at the edge of the village ... if I manage to leave for a while tomorrow, I'll try to photograph the leaves and fruits. Only there are some big cones, as for alder, it seems to me. And you have to walk along the river. Black, I don't think I will find, but gray ... I've seen something similar before. We had ducks, we collected duckweed for them in the reach. I seem to have seen

[Radushka]

RadushkaI read that black alder has larger cones than gray alder. Today I plucked a young tree, there were no cones on it. But I remember the black sheet well. We have a sea of ​​bushes on the other side of the river, we must also see there. There was a tall tree very similar to an alder, but a little in a ravine, I was afraid to go down so as not to thunder ...

[Nadyushich]

Nadyushich, I already wondered ... if that tree is black alder ... (I won't tell you! But, pleasant)

And I found a black alder, we have whole plantations along the river bank
My husband told me that he was growing, but he didn't know which one.
I had to be a mountaineer today, we have a very high and steep coast.
Everything is like in the pictures - leaves with a blunt end and black bumps.
I collected a little, it started to rain, I had to climb back.
With my arrhythmia, it only worked out on all fours.
She crawled home, soaked through and with her hands gnawed by mosquitoes.
But satisfied
I cut off the cuttings and cut out the hard part of the vein, I wither
I thought it would take half a kilo, but it turned out only 250 grams.
My husband took pity, promised to pick, I won't dare anymore.
I collected raspberries, also dried.
I wanted to ask - what can replace geranium and fragrant herbs?
Geranium may grow, but I don't know her by sight. And I'm afraid to take risks.
There is lavender, but I perceive it only as a flower.
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?
Sorry for so many questions, I'm just not a magician yet, I'm just learning

I wanted to ask - what can replace geranium and fragrant herbs?

And I have sage in the freezer in my stash
By the way, it also gives a rich "tea" color!

My husband said that he seemed to see sage on the river.
Will go fishing, ask the narwhal to see what kind of animal.
There is not a single herbalist in the village, but before there were a lot of grannies.
Take a closer look at how it looks.
And geranium too. Maybe we have a lot, but I walk past.

[Podmosvichka]

Podmosvichka, well, you won't miss with sage, only he has such a camphor smell when rubbing a leaf. And I accidentally stumbled upon geranium in the forest (200 km from the city), it is not closer within a radius (((The instinct worked, rubbing an unfamiliar leaf, smell it, otherwise it would also pass by)) She has an interesting perfume smell no matter what all the more not even close to home geranium!

I'll go and read about geraniums, maybe I will.

I'll go and read about geraniums, maybe I will.

I will continue a little about geraniums. A little visual aid