How to Make Homemade Herbal Tea

I am very excited about today’s post, even tough it is not fully what I consider cooking but it is definitely worth a post! It’s a family tradition where we collect leaves and flowers from lawns in the mountains and our garden to make our own home made tea.

In this Blog post we want to give you insight into the art of mixing of the tea.

The leaves have to be cut so the flavour can come out.

The next step is all about choosing the flowers and leaves you want to add. We think about a main taste we want to give the tea and then add other flowers. Main flavours are different kinds of peppermint, elderflowers, linden tree flowers, and lemon beebrush.

To the main flavour we mix the “healthy” herbs and flowers. (Although they are all really healthy!) There is a huge variety of plants I could describe here, so I am just going to pick a few: Scarlett beebalm, hops, nettles, flowers from mountain lawns, birch leaves, blackberry leaves, meadowsweet, echinacea, alchemilla alpina, camomile, and Cowslip.

As a final step we add flowers that are making the tea more appealing to the eye by adding color. Our favorites are cornflower, pot marigold, rose hip and apple peels.

After mixing it just needs to be filled into the big tea bags.