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Introduction to tea drinks
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Tips on how to prepare tea drinks |
Before we go dipper into tea drinks, I suggest you to read some cool information about tea plant.
Find out; tea history, sorts of tea, green tea benefits and more.
Or go straight away to tea drinks .
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• Hard water is bad for tea drinks.
• Tea is long life supplies, if you keep it in tin can, it is good for 24 months, but in paper bags it is good for 12 months.
• Tea pot for making tea don't use for cooking food.
• Don't throw away used tea leaves, put it into compost for flowers. |
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Tea containing various polyphenols, essential oils, some vitamins (E and some from B group) and minerals (because of high percent of zinc it is recommended to pregnant woman's).
Tea also contains caffeine, which wakes up. The concentration of caffeine in tea ranges from 2.5 to 4.5 percent, as contrasted to an average concentration of about 1.5 percent in coffee.
But caffeine in tea acts different than in coffee. The more you warm tea leafs it release more tannin, which neutralize caffeine and tea, starts effect relaxing.
Tea leaf buds and young tea leaves are used in making tea, the age of tea leaves determining the taste and name. Orange pekoe is made from the youngest leaves, and souchong from the fourth leaves. After picking, the leaves either are dried immediately and completely to produce green tea such as basket-fired, pan-fired, hyson, and gunpowder-or are partially dried and then allowed to ferment to produce various kinds of black teas, such as pekoe, congou, orange pekoe and souchong. Oolong tea is partially fired and then steamed, thus being intermediate between green tea and black tea. In China, tea is sometimes allowed to absorb the scent from various flowers; jasmine is a particular favourite.
The most tea drinks Scotsman. Also from Scotland comes Thomas Lipton (born in 1850 year), he was well known expert in tea.
Green tea benefits are great, one is that can help persons with weight problem:
If U drink a lot of regular coffee and have problem with weight, U should reconsider to change your mind and start drinking green tea . Green tea has less caffeine than coffee, but that is not the right reason, coffee makes insulin rise when you drink it, and green tea makes it go down. So after a month U should see change on your body (4-5 kg) . For green tea you can say that it is green tea antioxidant and green tea stimulant. It keeps you safe from hearth diseases, also makes blood pressure and cholesterol low. Traditional Chinese medicine recommends it for depression, digestion, and headache. They believe that if you drink green tea every day your life will be longer. U can buy green tea bags in your nearest store.
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Tea comes from China, although tea plant grows all over the world. Like with wine, climate and soil have great impact on tea plant.
Japanese tea ceremony is to drink tea in the afternoon. Chinese people also have ceremony for tea drinking in the afternoon. British people are real tea drinkers, because they drink minimally 6 cups of tea per day. Tea is national drink in India too, the country with the largest tea production in the whole world. The half of it stays in India.
People believe that tea plant is one of the first growth plants. Allegedly in 2737 b.c. Chinese emperor Ksan Nung find the beverage while he was drinking a glass of hot water, wind dropped in the glass tea leaf from the tree under which the emperor was sitting. After this he gave orders for growing teas.
The written document is youngest:
Chinese dynasty Tang (620-907 year) claim tea as royal drink. It's written then how tea leafs was dried.
Period of Song dynasty (960-1279 year) was start time of breaking tea into crumbs.
In the middle of the 15th century under the Ming dynasty people starts to spill hot water over the tea like we do today.
In 12th century tea comes to Japan and in Europe much later thanks to Dutch people not English. In 1610 year Dutch started to with tea shipping on a regular basis. Tea was brought to Russia by Mongols. Vasilij Starkov brought tea on Russian court on 1638 year.
Tea has historical role in America and the story goes like this: Boston Tea Party was action taken on December 16, 1773, by a group of Boston citizens to protest the British tax on tea imported to the colonies. Three British ships arrived in Boston in November 1773 with 342 chests of tea; the citizens of Boston would not permit ships to be unloaded. The royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, would not let the tea ships return to England until the duty had been paid. A group of Bostonians took the action on the evening of December 16, instigated by the American patriot Samuel Adams and many of them disguised as Native Americans, boarded the vessels and emptied the tea into Boston Harbor. The British closed the port when the government of Boston refused to pay for the tea.
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Tea, is name for a family of mostly woody flowering plants, and for one of its important genera. Tea family contains about 600 species placed in 28 genera, is distributed through tropical and subtropical areas, but most species occur in eastern Asia and South America.
We are dividing tea by color:
• Black tea is the famous and more consumed in Europe (98%).
• Green tea herb especially like by people from far east and countries of Magreb where mint is add in tea.
• Semi fermented tea like people of south China and Taiwan. Especially the sort oolong (black dragon).
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1.Under the stream of water wash the first the tea pot (should be of baked clay, if you don't have use tea pot made of glass). In the other one (ceramic, porcelain) put for every cup one spoon of tea plus one spoon for "tea pot", or just use bags.
2.In first tea pot warm up the water, before come to a boil remove from cooking stove.
3.Overflow the tea in the other teapot and cover with a cover. Tea in bags soak for 4 minutes, and leafs for 5 minutes. Strain the tea. |
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(It helps to release liquids)
Spoon of dried leafs add to cold water (2dl). Let it boil for 2-3 minutes. After that leave it covered with a cover for 10 minutes. Drink 2-3 cups per day.
Berries for the black currant tea (on picture)
The currant plant, Ribes sativum, is one of a number of flowering shrubs cultivated for their edible fruits and flowers. Currant berries are commonly grown in home gardens for use in making jellies, jams, and liqueurs.
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(Stimulates digestion)
5 fresh leafs spill over with hot water and cover with a cover for 5 minutes. Drink 1 cup after meal.
Pineapple Mint (on picture)
The pineapple mint is a perennial plant cultivated both as an ornamental and for its aromatic leaves, which are used as a culinary herb. It grows to a height of 45 cm (18 in) and can become invasive in gardens.
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(Refreshes at winter and in summer too)
This tea is rich with vitamin a and c.
Hibiscus (on picture)
The hibiscus is the common and scientific name for a genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs grown primarily for their large, showy, colorful flowers. The hibiscus is cultivated throughout warm, temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and grows best in sunny locations in very fertile, well-drained soils. |
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2 bags of Chinese tea
2 dl white wine
1 piece of cinnamon quills
1 clove
½ non-sprayed lemon and orange
½ little glass of rum
sugar to taste
Cook the tea with wine and 2 dl of water with spices and slices of orange and lemon. When come to a boil cover with a cover, decrease temperature to the lowest and leave for 5 minutes. Then remove from the cooking stove and leave for 5 minutes. Strain punch, add sugar to taste and add rum.
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It's especially good at winter. It helps with cold.
Linden Trees (on picture)
Reaching a height of 25 m (80 ft), the linden, or basswood, is grown for its small, fragrant, yellowish-white flowers and its timber. The wood can be used for wood carving, cabinetmaking, and the production of wood pulp, and the inner bark is used in the manufacture of shoes, fishnets...
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(Heals cold)
Leafs are to be cooked as any other tea. And roots just soak for few hours.
Marshmallow (on picture)
The powdered root of the marshmallow plant, Athaea officinalis, contains a substance that thickens in water. Heated with sugar, the result is a pasty confection, the inspiration for today's rubbery puffs of the same name.
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Dry pilled apple pill, then soak the pill in cold water until swell up. Cook that and given tea strain and add lemon juice and sugar.
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Russian punch |
2 bags of Chinese tea
2 dl black wine
2 cloves
1 non-sprayed lemon and orange
½ little glass of wine brandy
2 spoons of sugar
From lemon and orange cut of 2 tin slices and put in glasses. Cook 2 dl water with sugar, piece of lemon pill and cloves. In that beverage add tea bags and cook again. Then remove bags and cloves. Add warm wine and brandy and spill in to warm glasses. Add to your taste orange and lemon juice.
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1,5 dl Russian tea
2 spoons of sugar3 cloves
½ dl vodka
½ lemon
Cook strong sugared tea with cloves. Cover with a cover and leave for 4 minutes. Remove cloves. Add lemon juice and vodka. |
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(It helps with cold and regulates work of kidneys)
For 1 cup of tea:
1 fresh flower spill over with hot water.
Cover with a cover and leave for 5 minutes.
You can use dried flowers also.
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(It opening appetite and regulates digestion)
Add honey and drink this tea before sleep, because it's very good for relaxation. |
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(It relieve pain)
Cooked tea cover with a cover for 5 minutes.
Drink 2-3 cups per day.
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For 1 cup of tea:
Add 1 spoon dried leafs in 2 dl of boiled water. Let it boil for 2-3 minutes. Remove from the cooking stove and cover with a cover and leave for 10 minutes. Drink 3 cups per day. |
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(Keep organism strong, it's also good for digestion)
Don't cook this tea too long.
It's wise to drink this tea after larger meals.
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(Refreshes and prevents cold)
This tea contains a lot of vitamin c. Tea bag should be longer in hot water than any other tea. |
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Spoon of lemon liqueur and spoon of vodka add to
cup of tea.
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4 seeds of anise cook in 2 cups of water until they become soft. Strain that water and cook Indian tea in it. Serve with milk and you can add sugar if you like. |
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Scotland tea (for 4 persons)
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4 bags of Chinese tea
1 non-sprayed lemon
2 little glass of gin
4 spoons of sugar
Grate a small quantity of washed lemons pill, and cook
in 8 dl water.
When come to a boil add tea bags and cook it again.
Add sugar and lemon juice, then add gin and spill in
warm glasses.
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Maté, are used extensively in South America, especially
in Brazil.
It is made from the dried and roughly ground leaves
and shoots of certain species of holly, especially Ilex paraguariensis.
Maté is also known as Paraguay tea. But don't drink too much of this tea, also it's not for children. |
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Spiced tea (for 4 persons)
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8 dried apricots
½ dl apricot brandy
piece of cinnamon quill
2 cloves
4 spoons filled with leafs of Chinese or Indian tea
honey to taste
½ non-sprayed lemon
Well wash apricots and put them into apricot brandy at least for an hour. Cook tea in 6 dl water. When it's finished strain the tea and add cinnamon and cloves. Cook it again and when come to a boil decrease the temperature and leave it for 5 minutes. In between warm up the glasses, wash the lemon and slice it to slices. Strain the tea when it's not so warm. In every glass putt 2 apricots and slice of lemon.
Add tea and honey to taste.
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