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- Tea from self-dried blackberry leaves
- Dry blackberry leaves yourself
- Drying in the dehydrator
- Make blackberry leaf tea
- A tea with blackberry leaves
Blackberry tea is delicious and healthy
Tea from self-dried blackberry leaves
The delicious black berries of the blackberry are well known and loved by most people. But not only the berries, but also the dried leaves of the blackberry are good for our health. Blackberry tea relieves diarrhea, lowers the fever and cleanses the blood.
Dry blackberry leaves yourself
If you have brambles in the garden, you have a clear advantage here. But also in the forest and field you can find the wild blackberries, whose leaves are also suitable for drying.
- Pick bramble leaves from unsprayed shrubs. Make sure that the shrubs are not in the street area. Nobody wants blackberry leaves in which toxins have been deposited by exhaust gases. Rinse the leaves briefly under running water and dry them carefully. Lay the leaves on a tray or baking sheet and place it in a dark, dry place. During the drying time no light should reach the leaves, otherwise bitter substances develop. After about a week, the leaves are dry. They are easy to crumble with your fingers.
Drying in the dehydrator
If you own a dehydrator, you can also dry the blackberry leaves here. The clean sheets are spread on the sheet and dried at low temperature, about 40 degrees, for several hours.
Make blackberry leaf tea
With the dried leaves of the blackberry can be prepared immediately a healing tea. It is acceptable in taste, more aromatic if the blackberry leaves are previously fermented. For this, dry the leaves in a dark place for two days. Then separate the leaves into fine strips and freeze them in airtight packaging. For fourteen days, remove the bag daily from the freezer, remove the leaves for a quarter of an hour and then freeze everything again. So the tea leaves are dark as black tea and get a delicious flavor.
A tea with blackberry leaves
If you want to create a healthy, delicious tea yourself, take equal parts dried blackberry leaves, raspberry leaves, strawberry leaves and adds a small bunch of woodruff for the special taste.