Here's a very different kind of photo (for me, at least). This is my tea mug -- I make tea almost every morning. Normally I have some sort of loose-leaf tea from the local tea room, but today I made something different: birch tea. Birch tea has a pleasant minty sweet flavor. It also has a bit of salisylic acid, which is the main ingredient in aspirin.
This tea was made from yellow birch (sweet birch also works). I steeped a few twigs in hot water -- not boiling, because that destroys the flavor. As always: be careful! This was made from yellow birch (and others should work), but be sure you know what you're eating, before you eat it.
1 comment:
Cool perspective. I didn't know that about birch; willow has similar properties, I think. But I doubt willow makes good tea;)
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