How to Make a Fresh Herbal Tea

Use your imagination and creativity to come up with interesting herbal teas that you can brew in your home. The ingredients listed are suggestions. You can vary the amounts and even the ingredients and still wind up with good tea blends. Choose herbs from your garden or from local farmers markets. <br>The amounts shown are for dried herbs, but fresh herbs are always better. If you use fresh herbs, use slightly more than the recipe calls for. If you don't have fresh herbs, use good quality dried herbs that haven't been sitting in your pantry for too long. If you use a fresh herb from your garden or from the grocery store, make certain that it has not been sprayed with any pesticides or herbicides.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Tea kettle
• <br>Water
• <br>Tea pot or tea cups
• <br>Fresh or dried herbs such as peppermint, chamomile or other favorites

Steeped Herbal Tea

1. Boil one quart of water in a tea kettle or pot.
2. Place about 1/2 ounces of herbs in a tea pot.
3. Fill with the water you have boiled.
4. Steep (just let it sit) for about 10 minutes.
5. Strain your finished tea and enjoy it with honey, sugar, lemon, milk or other additions.

Making Sun Tea

6. Rinse and chop your favorite herbs.
7. Place a handful of herbs in a non-metallic container (a clean juice jar works well) with one quart of filtered water.
8. Cover the jar tightly and let stand in the sun or in a window that gets plenty of direct light for 4 or 5 hours.
9. Strain the herbs from the tea.
10. Add ice, sugar, or lemon as desired.