Hot Russian Tea

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Hot Russian Tea

Prep: 10 mins Cook: 10 mins Ready in: 20 mins


Ingredients:

1 1/2 Cups Sugar
Rind of 1 orange
5 Cups Water
8 Whole cloves
Juice of one lemon
Juice of 4 oranges
1 1/2 Tbsp Tea leaves
8 Cups Boiling water

Cooking Instructions:

Boil together for 5 minutes sugar, orange rind, cloves and water. Strain and cool. Place tea leaves in enamel or earthenware pot and pour over them the 8 cups of freshly boiling water. Steep for 3 minutes. Strain. Mix tea, syrup and fruit juices. Keep hot until ready to serve. Do not boil.
 
I drink alot of tea(green tea) about 8 cups a day. I will give this a try.
 
restless_heart said:
Yes it is great for colds/flu, even stress. :)
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Yep that true too, I love to buy Celestial Seasonings tea bags and each one of them does wonders for the body and health and I love it. I love chamomilie tea too which is great for cramps on pms and tummy pains work great.
 
GarnetTigerMom said:
Yep that true too, I love to buy Celestial Seasonings tea bags and each one of them does wonders for the body and health and I love it. I love chamomilie tea too which is great for cramps on pms and tummy pains work great.
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Me too!!! And tea are great for summer thirsts. But be careful not to drink too ICY ICY cold to get head freeze...SMILE!!!!
 
You forgot something, a Russian samovar.
They does make big difference on tea flavors.
My mom and I bought samovar (same one in picture) in Russia, and we decided to give this to my step dad (he is American) as gift. Later, we realized that he don't like to drink tea. We decided to use it, and love to make tea with Russian Samovar almost every day until he decided to give this samovar to GOODWILL (without us knowing) while my mom and I was in Europe. I was sooooooo pissed off when I found out. Not many great samovars in Russia anymore. :evil:
 
authentic said:
You forgot something, a Russian samovar.
They does make big difference on tea flavors.
My mom and I bought samovar (same one in picture) in Russia, and we decided to give this to my step dad (he is American) as gift. Later, we realized that he don't like to drink tea. We decided to use it, and love to make tea with Russian Samovar almost every day until he decided to give this samovar to GOODWILL (without us knowing) while my mom and I was in Europe. I was sooooooo pissed off when I found out. Not many great samovars in Russia anymore. :evil:
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Ouch! Seems like your step-dad not too crazy about tea. I know some men not really big on tea when most of them perfer coffee. :) Russian Samovar seems interesting.
 
Your Samovar is much nicer than mine. I forgot where is mine. I probably left it in the storage somewhere. The problem is that it isn't valuable. I don't think that it is made of copper. Maybe, brass. It is very light weight. This is also familiar of my brother-in-law's teapot at his house cuz he is Iranian. I am not Iranian. I'm white American.

Many European men often drink tea. i.e. Indian, Iranians, and Englishmen.

My opinion is that drinking tea is more important than coffee. Funny, men are rather to drink beer nowadays. It seems that men are smart to drink tea - than men who drink coffee. I am not going to say about beer.

I absolutely never put my tea cup in a microwave. It's better for you to use it on the stove. I prefer to use a steel coffee pot with a plug for the tea which is much faster than the stove.

If you put the tea bag in the cup with hot boiled water, the very hot water kills antioxidant. If it is "normal" hot, then it should be okay.

I visited in Georgia and some other part of southern Russia to tour around a tea farm. It is so huge tea farm that I ever imagined it. Pretty cool.
 
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