Many people are currently experiencing health issues. Along with traditional preparations, you can use healthy plant-based drinks. True, not all teas from the store inspire confidence. From self-collected herbs, vitamin drinks are obtained, which are doubly pleasant to drink. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the topic of how to make tea yourself, and apply this knowledge in practice.
Herbs for tea and their properties
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A number of medicinal qualities of fireweed can be distinguished.
- Traditional medicine considers the leaves and flowering part of fireweed to be a healing agent that can heal wounds.
- Ivan-tea should be added to the treatment of the following pathologies: otitis media, sore throat, migraine, stomach ulcer.
- It is useful to use the plant for colds, as profuse sweating occurs from the regular use of drinks.
- Fireweed tea acts as a sedative.
- Due to the ability of active substances from this plant to influence the conditioned reflex activity of the human body, it can be argued that drinks are really effective in the treatment of neuroses.
- Mucous membranes receive a useful enveloping.
- Fireweed drinks give an anti-inflammatory effect.
Melissa
It is necessary to name the most significant qualities of teas from lemon balm.
- Preparations from medicinal lemon balm are indicated in a state of neurosis, with mild arterial hypertension or untreated coronary heart disease.
- With the help of grass, you can get rid of flatulence and dysbacteriosis, as well as cure many diseases of the respiratory system.
- Eczema and dermatitis are treatable.
- Women in a state of menopause, toxicosis and disruptions in the menstrual cycle note an improvement in their condition when using lemon balm in various forms.
Rose hip
The fruits of this plant are characterized by a high level of popularity, as they have a number of useful properties.
- Rose hips contain valuable antioxidants for the human body.
- Home remedies made from this plant, endowed with a whole complex of vitamins.
- The use of rosehip drinks is relevant for anemia and in a state of exhaustion.
- It is appropriate to use the plant in the treatment of diseases associated with a lack of vitamins. Note the high content of vitamin C.
- Rosehip preparations have a positive effect on the functioning of the gallbladder and liver. Carbohydrate metabolism improves, bone marrow function improves.
Harvesting and brewing herbs
How to prepare and brew Ivan tea?
Before harvesting, you need to do the drying of the leaves, the so-called withering. A signal of the readiness of raw materials is a slightly sluggish, but not dry state. A labor-intensive, but noteworthy way of harvesting a plant, is to roll up rolls of several sheets with considerable effort. These actions are performed to break down the fiber and start the fermentation process. Rolled leaves are placed in a stainless steel container under a wet cloth or in plastic bags. The fermentation process of rolled leaves takes a minimum of 3 hours and must be done in a warm environment. By observing the change in smell, you can track this process. If the aroma changes from grassy to pleasantly fruity, then fermentation is already underway. Next, the leaves are cut with a knife and dried in the oven at 90 degrees and constant stirring.
You can do without twisting the leaves, in this case, the dried raw materials are passed through a meat grinder with large holes and placed in bags for several hours. After fermentation in a warm place, half-finished tea is placed in an oven or pan for final drying.
To brew a delicious drink, you need to measure 1 tablespoon of the resulting dry herbal mass and pour it with hot water - 250 milliliters. After insisting 10 minutes, you can brew the steamed leaves again.
How to collect and brew lemon balm?
Harvesting lemon balm should be carried out in dry weather. Leaves should not be washed. It is ideal to collect lemon balm in June, before flowering begins. It is best to use fabric bags for collection, not bags. Fresh leaves should be dried immediately, it is better to do this not in the open sun, but in a dry, warm and well-ventilated place. Avoid mixing with other herbs. It is permissible to dry in an ajar oven, where the temperature is set to 35 degrees.
All adults know how to make tea themselves - take a dry base and steam it with very hot water. This principle is used here. Based on lemon balm, you can make a healthy drink, for this you need to take fresh or dried grass and grind it. Put 1 teaspoon of leaves in a glass and pour hot water. The drink will be ready after insisting 10 minutes.
Harvesting and brewing rose hips
Freshly picked washed berries need to be dried. Before placing the fruit in the oven, it must be heated and turned off. If the oven has cooled down and the fruits have not yet dried, then it is necessary to heat up and turn off again, and then place the baking sheet with the wild rose inside again. Usually 2 such sessions are enough.
You can harvest berries in a different way. From the washed and dried fruits, the inside, that is, the seeds, is extracted. Collect all shells, then dry in the open air or in the oven.
Rosehip is perfectly brewed in a thermos. To do this, you need a liter of hot water and a 100-gram serving of fresh or dried berries. It is optimal to fill the fruits with water at night, so that after a 7-hour infusion you get a healthy drink rich in vitamins.
From the recipes in this article it is clear how to make tea yourself. You should not be limited to individual plants, it is better to have a whole set of medicinal plants at home. In this case, you can enjoy a pleasant tea that saves you from ailments at any time of the year.
In the 17th century, a new era began in Russia, associated not only with the name of Peter I, but also with the appearance in Russian culture of a drink made from tea leaves.
The Chinese plant is so fond of that it is now simply unthinkable to imagine life without it.
However, tea traditions are not limited to brewing black or green varieties of the drink.
Tea at home can be brewed according to special recipes or prepared from traditional herbs.
It will turn out no less tasty and healthy.
Tea at home: black or green?
They don’t argue about tastes, so it’s pointless to discuss which is better: black or green tea. Moreover, in fact, we are talking about the same plant, the leaves of which have undergone varying degrees of fermentation. The same applies to exotic white, red, yellow varieties.
The degree of fermentation determines how the taste and color of tea will turn out. Not at all fermented or lightly fermented teas convey their natural taste and aroma in a cup almost unchanged. These are green, yellow, white varieties in which fermentation is stopped by roasting the leaves. The color of the drink is quite pale. Black (as well as red) tea gives a thick, rich color and aroma.
When brewing tea at home, you should follow the general rule: Pour boiling water over the dishes beforehand, that is, it is good to warm the walls of the teapot. This is necessary so that the tea leaves give off all their flavor. Now the most important thing: do not let the leaves overheat and at the same time ensure sufficient temperature conditions.
The classic proportion of dry tea and water is a teaspoon per mug and one extra spoon for the entire teapot. With fast and not quite correct brewing, tea is simply poured with boiling water and infused for six to seven minutes.
There is another more correct way:
Pour half the measured amount of tea with boiling water, cover with a lid, cover the teapot spout with a woven napkin. This is necessary in order to preserve the benefits and aroma of essential oils;
After three minutes, add boiling water, leaving at least a centimeter between the surface of the water and the lid;
Infuse a drink: green tea - eight minutes, black - five to six minutes.
In Russia, it is customary to prepare tea leaves - a thick tea infusion, which is subsequently diluted with water. It is convenient because it is fast, simple and a lot: you can drink a large number of people. But in eastern countries and in England, tea infusion is not diluted with water.
Black tea leaves should not be brewed multiple times. The maximum that can be done is to “marry” a drink if it has just been prepared and the guests have drunk everything. The taste and aroma are weaker. But green varieties calmly tolerate five or even seven brewing times, each time delighting with a new shade of taste.
You need to drink tea made from black tea during the day. After spending the night in a teapot, the drink will turn from useful to dangerous (an Eastern proverb compares it with snake venom). And all because of a special substance - guanine, which, as a result of oxidation, turns into toxic guanidine.
If a film has formed on the surface of the tea, if the tea has clearly over-aged (it is especially dangerous to brew it in a thermos and leave it for a long time), overheated, you can’t drink such a drink, you can seriously get poisoned. Guanidine acts on the heart and blood vessels, causes speech disorders, a jump in pressure, affects the liver, reduces calcium in the blood, and provokes the development of gout.
Tea at home: we prepare herbal preparations on our own
In Russia, herbal teas have always been held in high esteem, which we still drink with pleasure today. You can prepare them yourself, using the same technologies as for preparing Chinese tea: drying, twisting, withering, fermentation.
Tea at home is prepared from the leaves of forest or garden plants, and when brewed, you can add berries, fruits, and even nuts to it. Just dry pouring and herbs is not enough (it will turn out tasteless). Ideally, you need to go through the entire technological chain in order to get a truly healthy and tasty drink.
Leaves of raspberries, wild strawberries, lingonberries, blueberries, currants, blueberries, as well as lime blossom, heather, fireweed (willow-herb), mint, chamomile, etc. are suitable for harvesting. Only plant petals (rose, jasmine) can be brewed. Tea at home can be prepared entirely from herbal preparations, or added to regular black or green tea when brewing.
Stages of processing.
1. Spread the raw material on a dry surface with a thin layer of three to four centimeters and leave in the shade for five to eight hours. This is the withering stage, which is necessary to prevent leaf brittleness.
2. Now the dried leaves need to be twisted a little by rubbing them with your palms.
3. At the fermentation stage, the raw materials are poured into any container (wooden box, yogurt maker, oven turned off. The point is to create a humid warm environment. The layer of leaves should be no thicker than five centimeters. To create a humid environment, you can cover the container with a piece of wet cloth. Time fermentation - about ten hours Ambient temperature - at least 26 degrees After fermentation, the leaves will turn dark.
4. The last stage of harvesting is drying. The prepared raw materials must be placed in the oven at a temperature of about 100 degrees and dried for about an hour, constantly checking readiness.
For the preparation of traditional teas, dried rose hips, viburnum, frozen berries (strawberries, sea buckthorn, currants, cherries) are used.
Citrus peels are also a wonderful product for making flavored tea at home. They are not used with herbal preparations, but with ordinary black or green tea leaves.
Tea at home: popular drink options
The most popular are flavored or specialty drinks. Here are some of the most popular tea options at home.
Mint
Two tablespoons of dried mint, three teaspoons of regular tea leaves, four cloves and a pinch of cinnamon (or cinnamon stick). Pour the mixture with half a liter of boiling water, leave for five minutes, then pour into cups and sweeten with honey if desired.
Peppermint tea is good both warm and cold. In the morning it remarkably invigorates, in the evening it relaxes, during the day it improves digestion.
ginger
Grate a piece of fresh ginger root. Throw three tablespoons of ginger into a liter of boiling water, boil it for two minutes, then strain, add sliced lemon, a pinch of black pepper, two mint leaves, leave for five minutes. Strain, pour into cups, if you want - add a little honey.
Ginger tea perfectly restores digestive processes, cleanses the body, improves complexion, thins the blood and prevents colds.
Chamomile
A tablespoon of chamomile should be poured with half a liter of boiled water, set for fifteen minutes. After straining, add honey and drink warm, because the cooled chamomile tea loses all its benefits.
And the benefits are great. The drink relieves headaches, normalizes digestion, relieves insomnia, helps control appetite, removes excess fluid from the body, and strengthens the nerves. Chamomile tea is useful for gastritis, liver diseases, diabetes and ulcers.
apple cinnamon
Cut an apple into slices, put in a teapot along with a tablespoon of black or green tea, a cinnamon stick. Pour two cups of boiling water, leave for ten minutes and strain.
Such a drink can stop a cold if you drink it within the first hours after the first symptoms of malaise appear.
sea buckthorn
Defrost a glass of frozen sea buckthorn berries. Pour two cups of boiling water, add two tablespoons of regular tea leaves (black or green), leave for fifteen minutes. Drink warm, sweetened with honey if desired.
Citrus-nutmeg
Brew regular black tea by adding zest taken from one lemon and juice squeezed from one grapefruit. Leave for eight minutes, then strain. Add half a spoonful of grated nutmeg, sweeten with honey or brown sugar.
The drink has powerful anti-inflammatory properties, increases the body's immune forces, and tones well.
You can mix fruit and herbal teas at your discretion. Linden blossom, calendula, thyme, coltsfoot, lemongrass, dried berries, eucalyptus, bay leaf, dried pineapple slices, apple, banana, pear, citrus peel - all this plant abundance goes well with green and black varieties of traditional tea .
Tea at home: unusual recipes
So many traditional and unusual tea recipes have been invented at home that you can drink more and more new versions of the drink almost all year round.
Chinese punch
Tea with the addition of alcohol perfectly warms and uplifts the mood. the main thing is to stop in time.
For half a liter of boiling water, take two tablespoons of black tea, juice of one lemon and one orange, one tablespoon of cognac and rum (or two tablespoons of one alcoholic drink). Brew, insist, strain. Can be sweetened with honey or sugar. When pouring, you can use the Chinese secret: raise the teapot high so that the drink has time to saturate with oxygen before it enters the cup.
Cold tea (ice tea)
Brew regular black tea. Put one hundred grams of ice cream on the bottom of the glass, pour in the juice of one orange, two tablespoons of lemon juice, pour a small amount of chilled drinking cream, then top up with cold sweetened tea.
Egg-nutmeg
Brew black or green tea. While he insists, beat the egg with a pinch of nutmeg, and a spoonful of sugar until a lush foam is obtained. Pour tea into the bowl, add the egg-nutmeg mixture, mix. If desired, add a spoonful of rum or cognac.
Mineral
Brew black tea according to the basic recipe, adding a clove bud, a cinnamon stick and a piece of fresh ginger to it. Brew mint tea separately. Strain both drinks, combine them. Squeeze out two tablespoons of lemon juice. Pour the tea mixture into cups, pouring up to half. Pour a spoonful of lemon juice into each serving, add sparkling water (unsalted), if desired, add an ice cube.
Dairy (steppe)
This version of tea at home is one of the recipes used by nomadic tribes. Six tablespoons of black tea will need half a liter of water and two liters of milk. Pour the tea leaves with hot milk and boiling water, boil the mixture over low heat for about ten minutes, leave for another ten to fifteen minutes. Strain, salt a little and drink.
Herbal
Brew Ivan-tea (for a glass of water - a spoonful of dried grass). It will take three glasses of the finished drink. Pour it into a saucepan, add a teaspoon of cardamom, three cloves, a glass of vodka. Bring the mixture to a boil, then steep for ten minutes. Strain, add honey.
The beauty of tea is that it never gets boring. Whatever brewing recipe is used, you get a delicious tonic drink.
Herbal medicinal teas, tinctures, uzvars and decoctions came to us from ancient times. People have long used the magical power of medicinal plants to prevent and treat ailments, improve immunity and improve health. Each hostess was a bit of a witch and knew how to properly use the generous natural gifts: herbs, berries, flowers, leaves and roots. Ancient recipes of fragrant herbal teas are still used by people with pleasure.
Delicious and healthy herbal teas can be prepared at home. The ability to properly select and combine natural ingredients will help you get the full benefit and pleasure of a fragrant drink.
A selection of the best herbal teas according to old recipes:
1. Healing chamomile tea. Sunny chamomile flowers contain salicylic, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, essential oils, pectins, carotene, gum, proteins and flavonoids. Chamomile tea has a calming, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and sedative effect. Warm chamomile infusion will help to cope with insomnia, stress, overwork and depression. Mix two tablespoons of dried crushed chamomile flowers with a teaspoon of mint and lemon balm. Pour in boiling water and cover tightly. Add a teaspoon of honey to the finished drink.
2. Vitamin herbal tea. Grind a handful of dried wild rose hips. Add a teaspoon of thyme and strawberry leaves, 1-2 leaves of black or red currant. Pour the healing collection with boiled water.
3. Winter warming herbal tea. It will help cure a cold, increase immunity, ease breathing and coughing. To prepare it, mix equal parts sage, chamomile, linden, thyme, coltsfoot, oregano and rosemary. Add raspberry leaves, currants, lemon or orange zest. Brew medicinal herbal collection in a thermos.
4. Herbal tonic drink. Mix equal amounts of rosemary, Chinese magnolia vine, lingonberry and blackcurrant leaves, wild rose flowers, and red clover in a glass bowl. Pour 500 ml of hot boiled water spoon with a slide of the mixture and insist a third of an hour.
5. Unique eucalyptus tea has strong antibacterial properties. Helps with diseases of the oral cavity, bronchitis and asthma. This is an excellent lifesaver drink for diabetics. Pour a cup of boiling water over a teaspoon of eucalyptus leaves. You can add flower honey to taste.
6. Anti-inflammatory herbal tea. Combine a dessert spoon each of dry sage, lime blossom, chamomile and nettle. Brew in a ceramic or glass teapot. Strain after 15 minutes. Add honey and a pinch of cinnamon to the finished drink.
7. Exquisite rose petal tea. Dry fresh rose petals on a thick paper sheet. Then grind them and mix with green or black tea. Brew in the usual way. The drink will acquire an original taste and a divinely delicate aroma.
8. Herbal tea with thyme invigorate, increase efficiency, give strength and energy, relieve pain. Pour boiling water over a glass or porcelain teapot. Then pour a spoonful of dry or fresh thyme, a currant leaf and raspberries. The time for brewing tea should not exceed 20 minutes.
9. Ginger tea for weight loss. Finely grate a piece of ginger root. Add half a fresh lemon and a spoonful of coltsfoot. Fill with filtered boiled water. Strain after a quarter of an hour.
10. Calming herbal tea Helps with insomnia, depression and nervous tension. Mix and brew in a thermos a teaspoon of mint, fennel, chamomile, lemon balm, hops, strawberry leaves and valerian.
Prepare and drink fragrant herbal teas with pleasure and be healthy!
Due to the multiple healing properties, drinks made from medicinal plants have been popular for a long time. Herbal teas for every day, the recipes of which have been known since the times of ancient Russia, are very popular today. Their beneficial properties, as well as the unforgettable taste given by Mother Nature herself, help to cope with various diseases, prevent their occurrence, strengthen the immune system and improve the general condition of the body. You can prepare such a drink with your own hands.
For tea for every day, those herbs that have a pleasant taste are suitable. When preparing it, you can use the stems, leaves, as well as the flowers and roots of some plants.
It should be noted that some plants reveal their taste more brightly in drinks if they are used raw or dried, and some, for example , , have a richer taste after fermentation of the leaves.
ATTENTION
Plants that are used in the preparation of herbal teas, in addition to the therapeutic effect, may also have contraindications. Therefore, before using this or that herb for a drink, study their properties and, if necessary, consult a doctor about their use.
The most popular do-it-yourself herbal tea plants
The most popular for herbal tea for every day are plants that are probably familiar to each of us:
- Linden - the composition of its inflorescences is rich in vitamins and micro and macro elements necessary for the body. It has excellent anti-inflammatory properties, normalizes the functioning of the digestive system, an indispensable natural remedy in the cold season.
- Chamomile is one of the most popular plants in folk medicine, which has a good anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effect. The human body is in great need of its constituent nicotinic acid, as well as flavonoids.
- Mint - this plant with a bright taste and aroma contains many useful substances: menthol, flavonoids, as well as carotene, oleic and ascorbic acids. It has a calming effect, copes well with headaches, increases appetite, strengthens the protective properties of the body.
- Fireweed, or Ivan-tea, is a plant rich in vitamins and microelements that has many medicinal properties that have been valued for a long time.
- Raspberry - the leaves and fruits of this plant have remarkable antipyretic properties, which is successfully used in the treatment of colds. Contains a huge amount of substances valuable for the body.
- Melissa, or lemon balm, is a plant with wonderful soothing qualities. It has a positive effect on the work of the heart, has healing properties.
- The leaves and fruits of black currant contain a large amount of essential oils, carotene, as well as ascorbic acid, phytoncides, vitamins C, A, B, P, potassium.
- Rose hips are a storehouse of vitamin C (many times more than in lemon), as well as antioxidants. It has powerful bactericidal properties.
This is not a complete list of herbs that can be used in daily herbal tea recipes. In nature, there are still a large number of plants that have not only a pleasant taste and smell, but also powerful healing properties. It has been successfully used in folk medicine since ancient times for the prevention and treatment of many diseases.
Herbal teas for every day, Trinity tea recipe
We propose to prepare a drink from medicinal herbs which are very popular in Russia. It got its name "Trinity" due to the fact that it contains 3 of the most useful plants: linden, medicinal chamomile and mint.
So, the ingredients for one serving of this tea:
- sprig of mint;
- linden inflorescence;
- stuff 5 flowers of medicinal chamomile;
- ½ teaspoon of honey;
- 150 grams of boiling water.
Rinse the prepared herbs well, put in a cup. In summer, it is better to use fresh plants, but in winter, seasoned and dried raw materials will come in handy.
Then pour them with boiling water and insist for 5-7 minutes.
Strain using a piece of cheesecloth or a sieve. Add honey directly to the cup.
Everything, herbal tea for every day is ready! A drink prepared in this way will retain the beneficial properties of each of the plants that make up its composition to the maximum.
It can be drunk both hot and cold. Herbal tea will perfectly cope with quenching thirst on a hot day, as well as replenish the body with useful substances, improve the general condition of the body and give a great mood.
There are a huge number of recipes for making herbal teas for every day, which can be found both on the Internet and in printed publications.
The main thing in making such tea with your own hands is to choose the right herbs, as well as brew them, while retaining the maximum amount of their useful properties.
It should be remembered that not all plants can be combined with each other, so you should not prepare drinks by combining any herbs.
To prepare a healing drink at home, you can use both ready-made fees sold in pharmacies, and herbs collected with your own hands.
Use only healthy leaves, stems and fruits that are not damaged. Just a few leaves, flowers or fruits of each of the plants are enough for the drink to acquire a bright taste and pronounced aroma.
When collecting herbs such as mint, St. John's wort or thyme, do not cut off the fruiting stems with flowers. The flowers of plants such as linden should be fully bloomed. If you are going to use plant fruits, they must be ripe.
The best time to pick herbs is when they start flowering. They need to be collected in dry weather, when there is no any moisture. After collecting the raw materials, it must be well dried to prevent decay. Store harvested herbs in a dry and preferably dark place.
Daily Herbal Tea Tips
Since a variety of herbs can be used in the preparation of a drink, each of which has its own properties, their effect on the body can be completely different. Therefore, you need to know at what time and what kind of tea you can drink without compromising your health and condition.
For example, in the morning you should not drink herbal teas that have calming properties. On the contrary, immediately after waking up, it is recommended to drink tonic drinks that will give the body a tone and help you quickly regain vigor after a night's sleep. To do this, you can use the leaves of strawberries, as well as clover, lavender, lemongrass.
But before going to bed, drinks consisting of plants with a calming effect will be useful. It can be lemon balm, mint, Ivan tea, chamomile, raspberry leaves and other medicinal plants.
During the period of colds, vitamin herbal teas that increase immunity and have anti-inflammatory properties will be very useful: from linden, chamomile, rose hips, black currants, raspberries.
For you - a video with a recipe for making delicious and healthy fermented tea from cherry and raspberry leaves with your own hands:
Herbal teas for every day, the recipes of which are very diverse, will bring great benefits to your body, improve well-being and mood.
Fruit tea is a drink made from a mixture of dried or fresh fruits, berries, herbs and flowers. It can be made with water, juice or tea. Each of these methods has nuances in cooking.
- Fruit tea on the water is brewed from dried fruits and herbs. Tea is usually not added (such a drink does not contain caffeine). But if you just pour boiling water over the dry mixture, you get a compote. Water must be boiled and cooled to 85-90 ° C. The teapot must be warmed up, and the drink should be allowed to brew for 8-10 minutes.
- Fruit tea on juice is made both with and without additions. In the first case, the juice must be heated, but not brought to a boil. In the second case, the juice is simply diluted with brewed tea. You can drink both hot and chilled.
- If the basis of fruit tea is black, green or white tea, then you must first brew and let the latter brew, and then add a fruit blend to your taste. Such a drink perfectly quenches thirst, relieves fatigue and tones the body.
10 fruit tea recipes
liz west / Flickr.comGrind 1-2 small pears with a blender. Brew jasmine tea (2 teaspoons per 0.5 liters of water). Add pear puree, juice of half a lemon and cinnamon stick to it. Let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
Gihan Dias/Flickr.com Brew strong black tea (0.5 liters of water for 2-3 teaspoons of tea). Strain. When the tea has cooled, mix with half a glass of pineapple juice and the same amount of orange juice. Add a couple tablespoons of lime juice, as well as fresh lime wedges and mint sprigs. Sugar can be added if desired.
Garry Knight/Flickr.com You can use any berries: your favorite or available in season,. For example, you can take a couple of tablespoons of raspberries, currants and wild strawberries, or a few strawberries. Mash the berries and mix with any fruit puree (3-4 tablespoons) and honey (2-3 tablespoons). Pour the berry mixture with hot water and leave to infuse for 5 minutes.
Dominique Archambault/Flickr.com Mash mint leaves slightly to give juice, add a tablespoon of green tea and pour boiling water over. Select the proportions based on the desired volume of the drink. An interesting flavor shade can be obtained if you add lemon balm to mint during brewing. This tea is best drunk hot.
In summer it can be cooled down to room temperature and refrigerate for a few hours. After that, strain, add a little honey and fresh mint sprigs and drink with ice.
Sherwin Huang/Flickr.com Brew chamomile tea (2 tablespoons of dry chamomile collection per 0.5 liter of water). Add 2-3 cups of orange to it. Cover with a lid and let it brew. Once cool, refrigerate for a few hours, preferably overnight. Before serving, strain the tea, add chopped strawberries and sugar.
Nhã Lam / Flickr.com Brew white tea (2-3 teaspoons per 0.5 liter of water). Strain and let cool. Then mix it with half a glass of peach juice. Add a couple of fresh, diced peaches. Send the drink to the refrigerator for several hours.
Twinings.co.uk Brew 0.5 liters of black flavored tea with strawberry flavor (you can use bags). While it is hot, melt 3 tablespoons of honey in it. In a cooled drink, add coarsely chopped strawberries (5-6 pieces) and mango (1-2 fruits). Send it to the refrigerator for several hours. Drink with ice and mint sprigs.
Personal Creations/Flickr.com Mix 0.5 liters of strong black tea with a glass of watermelon juice with pulp. Leave to cool for 1.5-2 hours. Before serving, top with chopped large slices and garnish with a sprig of fresh basil.
Emily/Flickr.com Make 0.5 liters of hibiscus (this is tea from Chinese rose flowers - hibiscus). Add sugar to taste. You can drink hot right away, or when it cools down, pour in a glass of apple cider and add slices of fresh lemon with ice.
myrecipes.com Bring 0.5 cups of freshly squeezed lemon juice to a boil with currants. Simmer for 5 minutes, then remove from heat and strain the berries through a sieve. Mix the resulting currant puree with 500 milliliters of black tea. Add sugar, ice and fresh currants. Garnish with lemon zest and enjoy.
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