Dalia Rosa kombucha tea
Submitted by watermeltsrock on August 6, 2008 - 11:12am
Servings:
be careful to pre-clean all surfaces effectively and without toxic chemicalsyou are growing your own raw alkalizing food out of a fungus and bacteria symbiosis (culture). kombucha tea preparation is not technically raw because we heat the tea to 100 C. when properly attained, kombucha tea is a unique source for many enzymes because we add the raw cold fungus to a cold mix of food for it: the tea and raw sweetener. the fungus eats the sugar and tea mixture and the bacteria eats the waste products of this metabolism. after full proper digestion (fermentation) we are left with an acidic medium which is generally alkalizing upon hominid metabolism. you are a hominid
Preparation:
ingredients:
pure spring or filtered tap water.
green tea leaves, dried or
fresh.
kombucha ‘mother’(available at local health food store or yerba maté institution).
agave nectar.
instructions:
clean all containers with purified water and natural soap.
obtain fermentation container with a micro-mesh
cover.
like nutmilk cloth attached with an elastic band.
boil water.
steep green tea, covered.
allow to cool to room T.
remove
leaves from steepate.
make sure it is room T cause higher will kill the culture.
add kombucha ‘mother’.
add agave nectar to feed mother. gently mix.
put in container and store in dark at about 80 F.
like in the cabinet above the refrigerator for 1 week.
do not disturb as this
will slow the process.
resultant should taste mild, round (a slight sweet sensation), slightly carbonated and a little vinegary at the back of the palate and have a floating disk of new mother on the top of your container. add fruit juice or just go plain and your kombucha is ready to drink: separate the tea from the mother and now you can make another batch!! ps if it tastes bad, don’t torture yourself. pour it out, look up a different recipe and try it again!!
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1.
I made my last two batches of ferments which produced 2 great baby mushrooms (I've never heard of them referred to as anything BUT fungus or mushrooms) but one batch was cloudy (didn't see anything unusual aside from cloudiness) and one was clear. I filtered both batches. I may have used a different combination of tea in each batch. In both I used organic sugar. I have since read that it has a harder time with organic sugar. The one tasted more of vinegar as opposed to the other one. Don't know. If anyone see's this and has time to post an idea as to why, that would be great.
2.
right, that's "yeast", not "yest"
3.
I've wondered if I could make kombucha with agave--glad to know I can. Thanks for the recipe!
And for the record, kombucha is a "symbiotic colony of bacteria and yest"--hence both bacteria AND fungus (as yeast is a fungus). So everybody's right! No need to get snippy . . .
4.
This is NOT a FUNGUS and NOT a MUSHROOM, it's a BACTERIA
Please do your research . . .