Flavoured teas.

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?

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

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:

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

Or even the way you were doing it.

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

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

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