How to prepare Ivan tea at home

Ivan tea is a very useful plant for the body, which is used in the form of tea. You can buy it in a specialized Internet pharmacy or prepare yourself. Growing Ivan tea is almost everywhere, just need to know how it looks. A perennial fairly high plant with bright elongated inflorescences from pink-violet to a saturated raspberry or even red. Flowers and leaves are suitable for brewing. Boot Ivan tea at home is quite possible, but if you pay enough time to it.

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Collecting Color and Leaf Ivan Tea

Like any other therapeutic plant, Ivan tea is going only in environmentally friendly places. Along roads, near the railway tracks or in the city park it is not worth it. It is better to go away beyond the borders of the settlement and collect it on the edge of the forest or in the meadow. To tear flowers and leaves need to be early sunny in the morning, but when the dew has already gone. Ivan tea blooms from mid-June and almost until mid-July - it is during these months it should be harvested.

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Barbelling Ivan Tea

Collected flowers and leaves should be decomposed with a layer of approximately 5 cm and hold 24 hours in the shade. The raw material is placed on clean cloth or white paper. During the breakdown, gentle raw materials will become sluggish and becomes ready for subsequent processing.

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Twisting Ivan Tea

Flowers and leaves, which passed the breakdown, twist. To do this, they should be taken in small portions and very carefully rub between palms in one direction. As a result of these manipulations, the raw material will become wet - juice will begin out of the plant. Due to the fact that the flowers and leaves will become wet, they will become more compatible on twisting.

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Fermentation Ivan Tea

This stage is the most important thing. At this time, under the action of oxygen, useful enzymes for the body will be highlighted from tea. Fermentation is done like this:

Twisted leaflets are laid out by a very thin layer (1 cm) on a suitable surface. Suitable glass or ceramic wide dishes with low sidelights (for example, baked form). In no case cannot take a metal baking sheet - the metal from enzymes will begin to oxidize and part it will go into tea.
The form with twisted leaves and flowerflowers is covered with a wet towel and transferred it to a warm place. The ambient temperature should be from 24 to 27 degrees.
Holding tea in the warm room and in the covered condition takes place from 6 to 12 hours. It all depends on temperature. With a higher (27 degrees), tea is wrapped up faster, with a lower (24 degree) - slower. When the fermentation process is over, tea will become very fragrant and, except for flower smell, also fruit will appear.

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Grinding Ivan Tea

After fermentation, tea is cut into smaller fractions. To do this, it is folded on a cutting board and shakes a large heavy knife.

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Drying Ivan Tea

Smalled fermented Ivan tea will dry in the oven or in the sun. In the sun, drying occurs 2-2.5 hours, in the oven - 1-1.5 hours. The temperature of the brass cabinet must be installed at 100 degrees and that tea is not burned, the door can be left ajar.

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Holding Ivan Tea before use

Dried Ivan Tea is folded into glass jars and covered tightly with covers. Banks are transferred to a dark place and stand there at least one month.

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Storage Ivan Tea

Store tea in linen bags or packages from thick paper. Shelf life - up to two years. Connoisseurs of this tea argue that over time it becomes more saturated to taste and more useful for the body.