Homemade Tea Recipes
Violets & Orange
Violets and a few slivers of tangy orange and Darjeeling tea.
Rosehips & Rose petals
Both mixed with Keemum tea.
Apples & Mint
Dried apples and finely chopped apple mint and Darjeeling tea.
Note: May need a little sugar
Peach & Peach Blossom
Dried peaches chopped finely and Oolong Peach Blossom tea.
Jasmine Tea
230 g. English Breakfast Oolong tea
1 tablespoon Jasmine blossoms
1 tablespoon lemon zest
Instructions:
Add 1 teaspoon of tea to tea ball
Fill up with boiling water
Let tea steep, 3 to 5 minutes
Special Green Tea Mixture
5 tablespoons green tea
8 tablespoons Moroccan spearmint leaves or other mint tea
A ‘Sleepy Time’ Tea
For one who has trouble falling asleep.
5 tablespoons of rose petals
2 tablespoons of jasmine
1 cup of green tea
2 cinnamon sticks
1 mugwort leaf
A small clary sage floret
1 tablespoon lecithin
Sweet and Spicy Flavoured Tea
5 tablespoons loose orange pekoe
6 cloves
3 vanilla beans
3 sticks cinnamon
15 to 20 green cardamom pods
3” fresh ginger root
9 tablespoons sugar
4/5 marigold flowers
Hibiscus
Parts used; flower or calyx
Violet
Parts Used: Leaf, flower, root
Rose
Parts Used: Flower, hip
If you are collecting rose hips yourself, remove their seeks
before drying them or brewing them as tea.