Fruit / herbal Tea

Bargain_Bunny

I just bought some honey, going to squeeze some lemons and put in the freezer - always have this for a cold

BB

hot.chick

Anyone make thier own?

Or know how I might try???

vivamartin

Yes, I do, with fresh peppermint's leaves, from a pot and boiling water, and sugar if you prefer.

Nordictat2

useful link for you're looking for
http://www.kirbiecravings.com/2009/05/homemade-fruit-tea.html

Penelope_Penguin

hot.chick wrote: »

Anyone make thier own?

Or know how I might try???

Never tried myself, so I'll add this to the exsiting thread to give you more ideas

Penny. x

thriftymoo

I've looked everywhere for this and can't seem to find anything!

I'm wondering if there's any way of making fruit/herbal teas yourself and where you get recipes from? When i tried to google making your own fruit tea it just instructed you to use hot water and a tea bag?!? i'd love to know how to make these things from scratch lol!

I've managed to find out how to make fennel tea from the seeds but now i have to work out which part of the fennel plant actually is the seeds....

perhaps there is information out there and i'm just so baffled that i cant see it!

If anyone knows anything about this, i'd be very grateful!:A

v8monkeyboy

When I make my own teas, I usually just use either the fresh leaves, or the flowers I've picked and dried during the year, although you can make tea with the fresh flowers.

I have lime flower tea, nettle tea (dried usually), yarrow - flowers or leaves, fresh or dried, feverfew for headaches (fresh), lemon balm (fresh, mmmmm), blackberry leaf and raspberry leaf, plantain (dried), oh and elderflower (dried).

I think that's it . I can't help with any of the raspberry/cranberry combos you can buy as that's all flavouring and concentrates as far as I can tell.

T xx

parsonswife8

It's honey, fresh lemon and fresh ginger for me!
Great for the digestion and for colds.
:rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

I like fruit teas, but have yet to make them from scratch

I'll add this to the older thread on this topic later.

foxgloves

I've got fennel growing in the garden but it doesn't produce enough seed to keep me in fennel tea. The easiest way to sort this is to buy a pack of fennel seeds intended as a cook's ingredient. I buy them for curries, but it's the ordinary seeds so you can just use a teaspoon per mug & use for tea as well. I dry lemon balm out of the garden for tea, but mostly, I just pick leaves of herbs I know make a good flavour & infuse them in one of those tea-ball infusers. At the moment, I like 2 lemon balm leaves, 1 vervain leaf (v relaxing) and 1 grapefruit mint leaf (for flavour) to one mug of boiling water, leave for a couple of minutes & it's a nice summer drink. I like this so much, I have planted one of each herb in a trough on the patio, along with a tangerine sage plant & a chamomile. They need lots of water this weather, but are providing lots of leaves for teas.