Nettle Tea

So, on Dr. Wiley's advice I decided to make some Stinging Nettle tea.  I love that there is tons of it right now available from my organic bin, it's very Ontario and I was happy to hear that it has so many health benefits.  This will be the first item that gets preserved this year, so I was very excited.  I took about two cups of nettles and spread them out on a cookie sheet and put them in the oven at 150 degrees for about an hour and a half.  They dried up really nicely and then I used a pinch to make some tea inside a tea ball.

As you can see it has a lovely green colour similar to green tea.  The taste however coincides with the notion that this is medicinal!!  It really tasted like tea made from dried up weeds.  I won't be drinking much of it now as the nettles are so fresh and plentiful right now.  I will however drink this once a week in the winter, but we're going to need to add honey.  I did not even bother asking Big Critic or Little Critic to try it! 

More preserving activities tonight!!  Stay tuned!