Greeting to everyoneeeeeeeeee ^^!
I just come back to my room and start writing my daily life on Hive Garden after 1 hour enjoying the cup of tea that I have made this morning. Do you remember the coffee flowers bloomed in my garden on the previous post? Yeah! I made tea from it and I cannot wait to write it right now ^^ 😁, to share my joys with all of you. 😙. Here we goooooo!*
Two days ago I was up bright and early this morning not only for meditating but also for collecting coffee flowers! Many people wonder why I have to collect coffee flowers in the early morning and what my purpose is.
Well, such a pretty question! Fairly, from coffee flowers, I can make tea with the same scent of jasmine, Sometimes I do not know if coffee flower and Jasmine has similar family or not, but I cannot distingush both scents if I grow them together in garden.
Time to collect coffee flowers
Naturally, after 2 – 3 days when coffee flowers blooms, they will be wilted and be get ready to fall down from the branches. That is the sign to say to me that the pollination duration has come to the end, so I can freely collect coffee flowers without any anxiety.
This flowers is ready to collect.
Why I have to collect coffee flowers in the early morning?
The processes of making tea is not hard in general. The main problem is about its scent and how to keep its fragrance in a long period of time.
In the early morning, before sunrise, after a night time taking bath under the dew, coffee flowers are still immersed in dew. Collecting this time would be available for us to save many active ingredients which are good for our well-being. Furthermore, at this time, coffee flowers will not be dried or dehydrated because of sunlight.
The dew is still lingering on the coffee leaves.
The combination between flower and dew to make tea is still a mystery for me. There are some things in the world that we cannot define or explain by scientific.
According to my organoleptic estimation, early morning is a best time for my mind and body after a long sleep at night, I will have full energy or inspiration to start a new day. It means my spirit affects a lot with my actions (here is about collect coffee flowers) and its quality. A peaceful mind will bring to me a best of cup of tea :D
The processes of making tea from coffee flowers.
All I write here accord to my personal experiences, no reference or copy from any websites or social media.
The simple process goes through 3 steps: Collecting flowers, drying out flowers under the sun and drying by heat.
- Step 1: Collecting flowers.
I will collect flowers which are wilted from branches and put in the container. Please choose the wilted flowers carefully and take them all gently from the branches to get rid of touching the babies fruits.
This is the baby fruits after blooming
Must be gentle when collecting the flowers
- Step 2: Drying out by sunlight
Spreading coffee flowers in the flat awning or other stuff that I have, put it under the sunlight. Depends on the degree of that day, we will consider to dry more or stop. With my eyes and hands, I can determine the color dry level of coffee flowers.
The first day of drying under the sun.
The second day of drying under the sun
- Step 3: Drying by heat.
All I need is about a pot or pan and fire, put coffee flowers in the pan and control the heat, stir gradually untill I could smell its scent in a certain of brittle level, then put it out to let tea get cool.
Now coffee flowers tea is ready for me to use and enjoy.🤗
My result after getting cool the dried tea
To get a long use, I can preserve it in the zipper bag.
In order to get a nice pot of tea. I often brew it into a small teapot with a ratio of 5g of flowers and 200ml hot water (approximately 80 – 100 degree celcius), wait for 5 minutes till the water change colors and the flavour is risen. Yeah! It’s time fỏ me to enjoy.
With an idea of take full advantage of every part of the coffee tree, I would love to do as much as I can, create my own products to use and gift for friends.
In the nex post, I would like to introduce and present how to make another tea which is made from the peel of coffee fruits. Have a sweet day, my friends on Hive!!!
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This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing @tuocchu! Fantastic!!!
Thank you @traisto . Today I intend to write about Cascara tea made from the skins of coffee fruits. Love to know that you like this article. I guess you are a fan of tea, is not it?
Haha, huge fan of tea indeed! Looking forward to reading more :)
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Hoa cf cũng làm trà được hả
Dạ được ạ :D cả vỏ và hoa cà phê đều làm ra trà được anh. Mùi trà hoa cf khá là thơm gần như hoa nhài ấy.
This is the first time that I have seen this being done and you just reminded me of my tea in my storage. Good evening!
Good evening, @afterglow . I wonder what kind of tea are you drinking ^^
I actually don't know exactly, but it was a classic Lipton Tea.
ui lần đầu biết hoa cf có thể làm được trà như dậy luôn á, ngộ quá ta. 😄
Hihi. Uống vị thanh tao lắm @hyhy93 ơi.
Thế hồi nào cho Hý thử vs nào 🤪🤪
Hihi. Để mình thu hoạch làm thêm rùi ới gửi cho Hý nhé ^_^
Hoa Trà này ĐN chắc chưa có bán đâu chị ha, Vì đây lần đầu em biết hoa cafe uống được luôn á
Ít chỗ bán á em, vì nó có 1 vấn đề là việc lưu hương, để lâu là nó bị mất hương. Còn chế biến liền dùng liền thì lại rất rất thơm và ngon. Vỏ cf cũng làm được trà đó em ^^
Thats amazing never thought of tea made from parts of a coffee plant.. I assume though that the tea wouldnt have any caffein in it, isnt it?
Also, I really like the photos you are taking, they are lovely!!
It is funny when I saw the first flower-photo I thought that they remind me of Jasmin or also Orangetree-flowers, so even without knowing how they smell, I guessed? their scent:)
Hello @kesityu.fashion . Hihi. Not really, coffee flowers have caffein as well as its peels and coffee fruits. When I drink tea, its smell is lighter than Jasmine, very gentle. You are too far from me, I wish I could give you coffee, tea to enjoy in the morning. :(
oh i would love that...😍
Wow! this is mind-blowing.
I tried tea made from the skins, but never tried coffee flower tea before.
it reminds me of the time when I used to collect jasmine from our garden to make tea just like that.
Wow. Coffee flower tea has same same scent as Jasmine but a bit lighter. The problem is how to preserve its scent in a long use -_- A tought issue to deal with, sir.
Wow I can eat and suck nectar from coffee flowers but have never tried using it to make tea, it looks interesting, hope to try it soon.
I will wait for that day, anh Đô ^^ Have a nice day anh ạ 😁
Excellent info! I use coffee leaves in my jungle medicinal tea blends, but I have not yet used the flowers. I've been going through a process of revisiting every plant I know, to explore if they have other uses, especially medicinal, I've been discovering amazing things. 🙏 💚
If your jugle has coffee-tree, you can take advantage both flowers and peels from fruits to make tea. I think I need to find out the function of its leaf too. Thank @tydynrain for your such a great infor about leaf, finnaly I have new thing to focus on today.
Yes, the whole coffee tree is useful. Aside from the other health benefits, coffee leaves have a 17% higher antioxidant content compared to the tea plant, Camelia sinensis, from which white, green, and black (etc.) teas are derived.