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Flavoured teas.

Hi.

I am trying to make my own flavoured teas. But i am having lots of trouble getting even close to what you can buy in the shops.

I tried to make black currant tea by mixing dried crushed black currant leaves. That worked a bit but the currant flavour was very weak.

I also tried to make strawberry tea by using regular artificial strawberry food flavour that you get in the supermarkets. I just added some of the flavour to some tea leaves and let them dry. That didn't work very well either.

Have anyone of you got any ideas on how it should be done? What am i doing wrong? Any tips that you can give me would be very appreciated.

There are a lot of small tea producers out there so it can't be that hard.

Im also trying to get hold of bergamot oil. I have had NO luck at all so far. One place i found online could supply me with it. In nice even 10 litre drums. :( Anyone knows where i can find smaller quantities?

Thanks / Peter

Reply to
Peter J
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The only suggestion I have is dependent upon whether or not there is a typo in the preceding sentence. Did you dry and crush black currant leaves or the actual berries?

Reply to
Derek

Typo. :( I used crushed dried leafs. On their own they make a nice herbal "tea". But the flavour gets lost when i mixed them with regular tea. I used berries to today but i just dont think thats how the supermarket tea is made. it was messy and the tea looked pitch black.

Peter

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Peter J

Actually, that wasn't the typo. You were right the first time. I was referring to leaves versus berries.

But how did it taste? Color of the water is much less important than the flavor.

And "they" often use the currants, not the leaves. Likely a pressed and extracted flavor, but it's still from the berries. It's the same way my "orange tea" is flavored with orange peel, not orange tree leaves.

For example:

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Or an herbal that uses leaves and berries from Black Currant.

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Or even the way you were doing it.

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So maybe you weren't far off to begin with.

Reply to
Derek

Thank you for replying. I will keep experementing. Wish me luck.

BTW. do you have a good webpage with do-it-yourself-teas recipec?

Thanks for all the help.

Peter

Reply to
Peter J

I'm afraid that I don't. Good luck with your experimenting.

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Derek

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