Fill your own tea bags to make your own combinations of herbal tea blends. Make your tea bag using disposable tea bags or reusable cotton tea bags. By filling your own tea bags, you can choose the types and amounts of herbs you want and pay less than buying them ready-made. Add therapeutic herbs in amounts recommended on the packaging, or by recipes, for medicinal purposes. Make an herbal blend batch to fill several tea bags at a time for future use.
Supplies:
Herbal tea recipes
Pen and paper
Herbs
Blender
Bowl
Spoon
Tea bags
Loose flavored teas
Spices
Lidded storage container
1} Search for an herbal tea recipe in books or on the internet. There is a plethora of recipes available for treating various ailments. The recipe will state the exact measurements of each herb to use per cup of tea.
2} Multiply the recommended amount of each herb in the herbal tea recipe, by the amount of tea bags you are going to fill. If the recipe calls for three teaspoons of peppermint for one cup of tea, multiply three teaspoons by the amount of tea bags you are making. Calculate the amounts of all the herbs you will be using and write them on paper.
3} Make an herbal blend batch by adding all the herbs, based on the measurements you calculated, to a blender. Press the grinder setting to pulverize the herbs to a fine consistency.
4} Pour the pulverized herbs from the blender into a bowl. Scoop a spoonful of the herbs into each tea bag. Fill each bag one scoop at a time, until all bags are filled with equal amounts of the herbal blend.
5} Add any other ingredients to the tea bags including loose flavored tea or spices. Add small amounts at a time to flavor to your taste.
6} Seal the bags.
7} Store your tea bags in a lidded storage container.
TIPS
Some herbs have a bitter flavor, so adding loose flavored tea to your blend will add flavor and cut down on any pungency.
Loose teas include black, oolong, green, chai and flavored varieties. Loose teas are available at health food and grocery stores, both local and on the internet.
Add a dash of spices to your tea bags such as ground cinnamon and cardamom for more flavor.
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