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How to Make Herbal Tea 🍵

Learn to make herbal tea 🍵 with me. The tea will help with digestion. If you like making the tea, let me know in the comments section.

Ingredients

Black pepper
Himalayan salt / pink salt
Fennel seeds
Anise
Cinnamon
Monk fruit
Lemon

* You can substitute pink salt with regular salt, and monk with other sugars, such as maple syrup or manuka honey.

How to Make Herbal Tea 🍵

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we’re making tea. All right, let’s do this. So first thing, let’s add some pepper, a pinch. Now we add the salt. We don’t know how it’s going to taste, but know it’s going to be good no matter what. So, the reason why we’re adding pepper and turmeric is because it’s a common disinfectant. We just add a little bit, and it should mix well with the stuff. So, it’ll be going into the water. Then we add some anise, not the whole thing, cause you want to break off the little seeds, cause it’s too strong. Otherwise, I think two should be enough. I’ll find out after I drink it how great this thing is.

And then, what I like to do is add not peppermints but actually fennel seeds to improve stomach digestion. Just need a little bit. Um, what else do I do? I think that’s it. Let me just check what’s up here. Oh, I like to add some cinnamon. Actually, I have a very special treat for you: it’s organic Vietnamese Cinnamon, let me just put a little bit in there.

Okay, and you don’t want your tea to be flat, so what you do is you add some organic sugars, and I happen to have a well-priced monk fruit sweetener. So, let’s see, don’t be too kind with it, just pour most of its in. Just kidding, just a little bit. Okay, nice and sweet, so this way your drink is ready for healing. All right, and then you have a boiled tea kettle ready to go. Then we pour it into the cup.

And then you take one of your refrigerated lemons, and you plop one in and hope for the best. Oh, you can actually squeeze it into your cup! Woh watch for the splash back, and then you take your spoon, and you give it a stir. Of course, you get to do a poison test, so let’s see.

Let me know what you think of the Herbal Tea. 💭🚀

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Day 21 already. My my time do fly. Sweetest Dreams.

There's a LOT in here, prepare yourself. Apple, chamomile, roasted chicory root, birch leaves, sweet blackberry leaves, lavender, citric acid, rosemary, "flavouring", silver lime flowers and rose petals.

Bag smells generically fruity and floral. I can't pick out anything distinct, it's a nice comfortable sort of scent though.

Tea smells warmly of blackberry leaves.

Flavour is unclear. It's nice, fruity and not floral at all - I can't detect rose or lavender, but I can't say "Oh there's the apple, there's the rosemary..." it's just a sort of mish mash of warm fruity flavour. There is the slightest, very slightest, bite from the citric acid though.

#T2Tea #Tisane #Tea #HerbalTea #AdventCalendar

Day 15. Lemongrass and Ginger.
No "flavours" etc in this one, just lemongrass and ginger.

It's not a tea I drink regularly not being a huge ginger fan. I don't mind it, it's just not a flavour I choose often unless it's in something like a sauce or stir fry.

Bag and brewed tea both smell strongly of ginger, surprising no one.

The ginger and lemongrass balance is about perfect so the ginger isn't the boss. It's there, but it's behaving itself nicely and letting the lemongrass have a shiny moment too.

#T2Tea #Tisane #HerbalTea #Tea #AdventCalendar

Day 8! Night 8, as it's a bed time tea. The Dreamer.
Rosehip, lemonbalm, lemon verbena, rose petals, orange peel, sunflower petals, calendula petals, hops, valerian, cornflower petals, "flavouring"

Quite a mix of things in this one. Dry bag smells of hops, valerian and a bit of citrus.

Brewed tea smells of hops and valerian. It's not tempting, I have to say.

Okay fine I'll drink it. You're very mean to me, btw.

I'm getting the orange, but not much else. I've left the bag in for ages so it should be up to strength (I leave herbal bags in). Is warm a flavour? It tastes warm, and a bit orangey. There's other flavour in there, but the only one I can actually point at and say "Ahah! There you are!" is orange.

It tastes better than it smells, that's for sure.

#T2Tea #tea #tisane #HerbalTea #AdventCalendar