On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:16:36 +1000, Peter J wrote:

Derek wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:25:53 +1000, Peter J wrote:


I tried to make black currant tea by mixing dried crushed black currant
leaves. That worked a bit but the currant flavour was very weak.


The only suggestion I have is dependent upon whether or not there is a typo
in the preceding sentence. Did you dry and crush black currant leaves or
the actual berries?


Typo.
I used crushed dried leafs.

Actually, that wasn't the typo. You were right the first time. I was
referring to leaves versus berries.

On their own they make a nice herbal "tea".
But the flavour gets lost when i mixed them with regular tea.
I used berries to today but i just dont think thats how the supermarket
tea is made. it was messy and the tea looked pitch black.

But how did it taste? Color of the water is much less important than the
flavor.

And "they" often use the currants, not the leaves. Likely a pressed and
extracted flavor, but it's still from the berries. It's the same way my
"orange tea" is flavored with orange peel, not orange tree leaves.

For example:

http://www.adagio.com/flavors/currant.html

Or an herbal that uses leaves and berries from Black Currant.

http://www.englishteastore.com/blackcurrant.html

Or even the way you were doing it.

http://www.perennialtearoom.com/inde...PROD&ProdID=39

So maybe you weren't far off to begin with.

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Derek

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