Tea Time - Share your favorite teas and bisquits

[Maria]

I have just discovered a tea drunk in the Philippines and in Mexico. Kids like it, so it cannot be bad tasting. I am cooking this tea now on my stove, and the entire kitchen has a wonderful sweet floral smell. Now to taste this tea. My mouth is watering in anticipation.

Avocado Leaf Tea

• 1. Gather fresh avocado leaves from your backyard or your neighbor. With this demonstration I got some leaves from my herbalist neighbor.

  1. Clean around 7 big leaves under running water with your bare hands to wash off any dirt. You can use a toothbrush to be more thorough.

  2. Put in pot and add at least 1.5 liters to 2 liters of filtered, reverse osmosis water or distilled water. Do not use tap water or mineral water.

  3. Allow to boil for 10 to 15 minutes.

  4. Allow to cool to taste.

  5. Drink up and enjoy the whole day. Or for cleansing purposes, drink first thing in the morning and drink the last thing at night. Drink at least 1 liter at night. Of course you will be peeing but that is the idea.

http://www.curemanual.com/detox-protoco ... cleansing/

Below, I will start an alphabetical index so that you can always find your favorite teas.

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[b]Avocado Leaf Tea[/b] - http://www.euphrosynoscafe.com/forum/posting.php?mode=edit&f=6&p=62654

[Barbara]

I don't have any biscuits to offer, as I don't ever eat them, but here is a tea which rhymes :
Hibiscus ! Someone might do well to offer Hibiscus Tea and Biscuits !

Seriously, i was sent a kind of hibiscus tea grown in Central America which is solar-dried.
I haven't tried it yet but it looks promising. I like the solar-dried quality of it, and hibiscus sounds
nearly as exotic as Avocado Leaf Tea !

That sounds intriguing, really. What did your batch taste like Maria ? Did it taste same or better than
its delightful aroma while brewing ?

I don't think I have ever seen an avocado leaf, much as I like avocados...1

[Maria]

I don't have any biscuits to offer, as I don't ever eat them, but here is a tea which rhymes :
Hibiscus ! Someone might do well to offer Hibiscus Tea and Biscuits !

Seriously, i was sent a kind of hibiscus tea grown in Central America which is solar-dried.
I haven't tried it yet but it looks promising. I like the solar-dried quality of it, and hibiscus sounds
nearly as exotic as Avocado Leaf Tea !

That sounds intriguing, really. What did your batch taste like Maria ? Did it taste same or better than
its delightful aroma while brewing ?

I don't think I have ever seen an avocado leaf, much as I like avocados...1

The Avocado Leaf Tea tastes like tea because it has tanins in it like regular tea, but it has a delicate floral taste. If someone had poured me a cup of it without telling me what it was, I would have thought it was perhaps a Jasmine tea, but even better.

[Barbara]

Does the Avocado Leaf tea have caffeine, then, if it has tannins, Maria ?

I would love to try it, especially after reading your description of tasting like Jasmine Tea. I LOVE that type, I mean authentic Jasmine tea from Central Asia/ Western China.

[Barbara]

Here is the best I could find as far as internet info goes on the Hibiscus.
This is the name of the company, which is in Fairfax, so a local Bay Area concern. [Fairfax is out in Marin up Sir Francis Drake Blvd.]

http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-siguanaba-company-fairfax

A couple of reviews of the 2 types of Hibiscus. Plain and Lime [I have to try that latter.]

[Maria]

Here is a way to clean your house and have time for tea:

http://www.viralnova.com/house-cleaning-hacks/

Quite clever. If I use the toaster, and I rarely do, and I burn some toast, then I grab a sprig of mint from the garden and put that into the toaster. The air clears up immediately.

[Maria]

Time for some more avocado leaf tea. Anyone want to join me?