Now many people are fond of herbal teas, preferring them to traditional tea and coffee. The first time I tried herbal tea was visiting my husband’s grandmother. She did not recognize ordinary tea, but she brewed extraordinary herbal teas. Whatever herbs she harvested for tea: St. John’s wort and chamomile, meadow clover and oregano, wild strawberries and raspberries on branches with leaves and berries, and also leaves of cherries, currants, lemon balm, mint.

Impressed by the taste of herbal tea, for many years I also try to prepare all sorts of delicious herbs in the summer. This requires certain knowledge, and, of course, relatively clean places. You can buy herbs at the pharmacy and even ready-made herbal teas, but they are usually sold there in crushed form.

Grandmothers usually brewed tea with sprigs and whole leaves, because such tea has a very delicate aroma and is devoid of the bitterness characteristic of medicinal decoctions and infusions, which are made from crushed plants. You also need to remember that all herbs have a medicinal effect and you need to know about the features of each type so that instead of benefiting you do not harm yourself.

It is better to brew herbal tea in teapots that retain heat well – in ceramic or porcelain. I suggest trying vitamin tea

Ingredients:

St. John’s wort (twigs) 5-6 pcs., mint (twigs) 2 pcs., blackcurrant (leaves) 3 pcs., cherry (leaves) 3 pcs., water for brewing 1 l.

Cooking steps:
1) Boil filtered or bottled water in a kettle. It is believed that electric kettles are unsuitable for proper brewing of any kind of tea, as they turn off some time after boiling, and at the same time, the oxygen contained in the water quickly evaporates. Water becomes hard or, as it is also called, dead. Properly boiled water for tea is turned off in the “white key” state, that is, when a lot of bubbles rise from the bottom and the surface of the water turns white from this.
2) Rinse the teapot with boiling water, put herbs in it and pour boiling water over them.
3) Cover the kettle with a lid and put a napkin on top in several layers or put on a heating pad for the kettle. Let it brew for five minutes
4) Pour tea into cups without diluting with additional water, serve honey or sugar separately. Do you feel the taste and aroma?