Ivan Tea Recipe

While legend has it that tea was discovered in china and many histories have been written black tea didn t appear.

Ivan tea recipe. Ivan tea is very useful and to men as raises a potentiality. It is a lovely tasting nutrient loaded tea called ivan chai or koporye tea. There are dozens of recipes to prepare ivan chai. This is a traditional russian tea that has been around since the 12 th century.

Since that i don t have green tea or black tea at home. According to legends from leaves of a willow herb hunters and wanderers preferred to make tea. You make fireweed tea by stripping the leaves off the stalks bruising them in some way letting them oxidize and ferment then drying and storing them. Later on ivan tea became very popular in european countries and was just as widely spread as famous indian tea.

When rust did not yet have a customary tea for modern man this fragrant drink was prepared from a conventional field plant and even supplied dried raw materials to the emperor. After fermentation right before going into oven. Fireweed tea has a long history in russia where it s called koporye tea. The first package of ivan chai i got from the family friends 2 years ago.

Ivan tea was first mentioned in 12 13 centuries but then it was known by the name of a small town near saint petersburg koporye tea. Apparently there was a thriving fireweed tea industry in the pacific northwest when the russians occupied it. Medicinal properties recipes photos now the herb called ivan tea does not havesuch a wide distribution as in the olden days. Although ivan s tea will perhaps never regain its pre 19 th century popularity as an internationally known export it is still commonly sold and consumed in russia.

If you are interested in making the ivan chai from rosebay willowherb leaves recipe below. Sadly in 18 th century ivan tea was unfairly forgotten and only recently has it started winning. Perhaps it is better to replace the habitual drink from a package with dried leaves of this plant. The abundance and wide accessibility of rosebay makes it s production a very localised process but the tea s processing method is a widely known recipe descended from its koporye haydays several hundred years ago.