Now the tea mushroom already becomes a rarity, and earlier it stood almost on each kitchen. Then this drink was replaced by various types of carbonated drinks, but today the tea mushroom returns to us again. There is no wonder, except original taste and ability perfectly I am eager to satisfy, it still has a number of useful properties. In former times to find a tea mushroom didn't make work, was to glance to neighbors enough, all had a tea mushroom. And now it is very difficult to find it. But it doesn't matter, the tea mushroom can be grown up most.
It is required to you
- glass jar
- gauze
- boiled water
- sugar
- tea leaves (the large leaf is better)
Instruction
1. The tea mushroom is very clean therefore the glass 3-liter jar prepared for it should be washed carefully. Otherwise the mushroom will hurt. In a teapot for tea leaves we put 5 tablespoons of leaf tea, we fill in tea with boiled water and we wait until infusion cools down. Then we add to a teapot of 7 tablespoons of sugar, we mix everything and we pour infusion through gauze fabric in a 3-liter jar. Bank it is closed by a gauze and put to the warm place. Process of preparation of a tea mushroom will take about one and a half months. In a week the surface of liquid will become covered by a thin film. It will also be a tea mushroom. The film will constantly expand. When it becomes a thick mushroom, bank is up to the top filled with water, and in a day drink is ready.
2. The tea mushroom can be prepared on the basis of a dogrose. So it not only will remove thirst, and will be still useful to health. In such drink there are a lot of useful substances which will help to avoid a disease during a catarrhal season. This species of a tea mushroom precisely is preparing as it is described above, but for this kind of drink it is necessary to prepare dogrose infusion at first. For this purpose it is necessary to fill in 4 tablespoons of dried or fresh fruits with a half of liter of boiled water and to allow to infuse 5 days. In this case the kept infusion of tea mixes up with the kept infusion of a dogrose and is put to the warm place. The full-fledged mushroom will appear in bank in one and a half-two months.
3. It is necessary to look after a tea mushroom, otherwise it will turn sour. It is whimsical culture. By the way, it is possible to determine easily health of a tea mushroom by its arrangement in bank. If the mushroom is above - it is healthy, and the sick mushroom falls down. Once a month, at least, the mushroom needs to be taken from banks and to wash out carefully. It is necessary to wash out also a can, and liquid in it being to filter through a gauze. Only at observance of this condition you on a table will always have a healthy and tasty tea mushroom.