So I thought I'd have tea~

[valley ranch]

Well, it was getting to be afternoonish around two On the clock, wifey doesn't like me to have coffee late in the day,~so I thounght I'd have tea. Tea kinda sound calm n natural and more natural than coffee, but it isn't!
So I heated the water and looked through the teas, they have a lot of teas. I picked out Strawberry, had a nice sound to it, I forget the next word~It was strawberry dream or strawberry,, I don't remember. So Yerani brings lunch to the table I'm ready with the tea bag, we pray and I read the little package~ the first thing I see is Artificial Strawberry flavor, what the devil is natural about that? I didn't read any further~what about the color~you know it's most likely RED #43 something like that~there's nothing natural about that~what else is in the bag, Artificial Leaves???

So, I came over here n thought I'd tell you about it. but I made some cinnamon tea, haven't had that for years and years, folks use to make it when someone was feeling under the weather. Mmmm,, tastes good.

Well~moving right along.

 

[digitS']

If you have raspberries, collect leaves for raspberry tea. Have you had it? It has a surprisingly nice flavor.

@Larisa collects rose hips for tea. I've done that but ... it reminds me of sucking on a vitamin C tablet .

People like mint teas. I've got all these mints in my backyard but don't use any. I like chamomile (but have trouble growing it) with spearmint otherwise, the mints are NOT my cup of tea .

The neighbor has lots of catnip in his yard. It's pretty good and especially if it has been dried.

My favorite, just by itself, is lemon verbena. And, there are all sorts of lemon this and lemon that - I don't care for. Making it really special would be adding anise hyssop to it. I've got both of these plants! Yay!

Steve

 

[Larisa]

it reminds me of sucking on a vitamin C tablet

I always knew that this wild rose grows only in Russia!

D) It has many varieties - the result of selection. (But we buy American jeans). If not for these customs house harakiri - rules, I would have sent a box for you.

@valley ranch
You're right, tea bags, especially with additives, it's terrible. I understand why so many people get allergies in our time. Even if the box says - English tea without additives - I put in a cup of tea bag and pour boiling water - and tea immediately becomes bright color of the tea. This dye! Real tea is brewed slowly. It takes a lot of minutes - only then tea gets its color. So I buy tea on weight. It is often sold with herbs or berries, but it's natural. This tea is brewed for a long time, but it tastes good. I am also a dry of grass. In my garden a lot of wild mint (I make when someone has a cough), as well as garden mint - mint mojito and mint orange. Young leaves of a black currant - a great addition. St. John's Wort - tasty and healthy (it is impossible for people with hypertension). And other herbs and leaves.
I have long wanted to learn how to make tea from the willow-herb (Epilobium). Tsarist Russia was sending it to export to Europe. This plant can not simply dry up. This is a complex and consistent technology. But the tea turns out very tasty and healthy.

 

[Beekissed]

I belong to a UK gardening forum and also read a lot of books where the setting is in the England, Scottland, etc. What is with all the tea drinking over there????? I mean, this has been going on since the beginning of time over there, sipping on tea like it's life's water. What's with that???? They even have a whole meal they call "tea" but it's actually just a meal and they drink tea, I'm guessing, while they consume it, but since they drink tea all hours of the day anyway, not sure why they call THAT meal "tea" as opposed to all the other meals of the day?

Tea is fine if you put sugar in it, especially done southern style~cold and sweet~but I doubt I'd make a religion out of it like some countries do. Sort of like Americans and their coffee...weird to me. Both drinks are bitter, nasty things that would make a person gag but people are out there swilling them like they are nectar.

What's with all the tea drinking?????? Anyone from over the pond want to help me understand why tea is so integral to their lives there?

 

[Nyboy]

Boston Tea Party

 

[bobm]

In the Orient ... they have tea ceramony customs.

 

[valley ranch]

Parif Larisa, I do drink Mint Tea, wrinkly leaf tea, Nana, we have here Wild, Ros, Zdes', gde my zhivem.

digit, I do have Raspberry growing in the mountains.

beekissed, Wife is from Australis, when she says tea~she is talking about lunch or dinner.
http://scottishtea.com/history-of-scotland-and-tea/

 

[baymule]

I also like my tea cold. Hot tea is nice when it is real cold outside, so that doesn't happen often around here. I like to dig the roots of the sassafras tree, boil them and make tea. Delicious! I have pulled the petals from dandelion flowers for tea, good hot or cold.

@valley ranch when you posted about sumac and I picked some to send to you, I made tea from the sumac. It was rosy deep pink in color and had a lemony flavor. Make you up a batch of sumac tea! How is your sumac plant doing?

 

[valley ranch]

Hi, The plant has done well, it's leaves are bright red, shutting down for winter, it hasn't given any fruit yet, maybe next season. I still have plenty of the fruit clusters you've sent. I think, I'll do just that, and have a cup of Sumac Tea. Thanks for the reminder.

Sassafras~that's a bright idea as well.

 

[digitS']

Enjoyment of drinks is a matter of taste, of course.

Rooibos tea is appreciated by some folks. (Hey! My spell checker even knows the word .)

It's amazing to me! No, I mean that anyone would appreciate the taste of Rooibos. I've also got this psychological hangup about tasting Kombucha but I'm sure I could overcome it with the right incentive ... like 5 people gathered around me waiting to see the expression on my face ...

Steve