Cistus tea

Wahre Lebenswerte - True Life Values Recipes and Applications
1

Cistus Iced Tea Recipe

The slightly tart taste of Cistus makes it wonderful for preparing iced tea, thus maintaining the classic iced tea flavor traditionally provided by black tea.

It’s quick and easy:

Prepare 1.5 liters of Cistus tea, let it steep a little longer than 8 minutes (up to 12, the taste will become even tarter)
Let it cool.
When the tea is lukewarm, stir in four tablespoons (110g) of good liquid honey (I like to use acacia honey because its taste is very neutral. You can, of course, also use raw cane sugar, but I don’t know if the tea would still support an alkaline environment then.)
Now add the juice of 2.5 lemons (80ml). Chill, and serve with some ice or fresh mint as desired. A wonderfully refreshing and invigorating summer drink!

Last August, I also used ripe peaches. For this, I simply put the cooled, finished iced tea together with the peaches into a blender. Tastes delicious! You can even put whole, peeled lemons into the blender instead of lemon juice. The seeds give a slightly bitter note, which then creates a taste reminiscent of ‚Ginger Ale‘. Furthermore, lemon seeds contain many vitamins.

What you need:
1.5 L Cistus tea
2.5 lemons
110g liquid honey
optionally peaches
optionally fresh mint

18 Likes
2

I will try this! Thank you.

2 Likes
3

Thank you for the recipe, we will be offering it to our customers at the market today!

1 Like
4

I also tried it and found it delicious :face_savoring_food:. However, it didn’t look as good for me, because when I added the lemon juice, something precipitated in the tea (probably due to the acid)… did the same happen to you? So I had to mix it well before drinking.

5

Yes, if the tea has already cooled down too much, it doesn’t mix as well anymore.
What I sometimes do when I’ve forgotten the tea and it’s already cold:
I put it into a blender with the other ingredients. This results in a very homogeneous drink.
If you have a high-performance blender, you can even add the whole lemon (without the peel). The taste of the tea then becomes even more tart due to the white pith and seeds of the lemon. I like it. It almost reminds me a bit of Bitter Lemon.

4 Likes