Kombucha Tea Recipe
January 5, 2010 by KT
Filed under Kevin's Blog
I want to pass along this wonderful Kombucha Tea Recipe I came across!
Kombucha Tea
by CJ Taylor
–Brew a pot of tea water (4 cups)
–Pour in a glass jar (gallon size)
–Steep 4 caffeinated earl grey tea bags or other black tea
–Steep 4 bags of hibiscus or other flavored tea
–Add 1/2 cup of sweet agave or 1 cup organic raw sugar
–Fill the rest of the jar with water
NOTE: Save enough space for the mother scobi. You can purchase one off the internet or use the scobi bits in a bottled kombucha from the store
–Let water cool to room temperature
–Add the scobi plus a cup or two of the liquid the scobi was in (we call this starter fluid)
–Cover it with a tea towel (rubber band it so it won’t fall off)
–Put it in a cool dry place away from the kitchen (like a closet)
If you have never made Kombucha Tea before, you may want to visit this website for assistance.
Kevin,
Thanks again for the good advice. I made my first batch of this tea
and just started drinking it today. It taste real good, can’t wait to
experience the benefits.
cheers
I am really surprised by these comments about Kombucha… I have been making it for years and it costs no more than the price of a few teabags and some sugar..probably less than the average person spends each day on Diet Coke or Fanta…. I don’t know how much it costs where you live to buy a Kombucha ‘mother’ but as soon as you find someone who is making this beverage, they will undoubtedly be delighted to share some of the ‘mushroom’ with you as we run our for friends to share the ever expanding culture with!
So it really isn’t expensive at all….and yes, I agree with your comments that we need help people to eat, think and become healthier… but the price of Kombucha is certainly not an issue!!
Kjelene,
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It is too expensive to be healthy. If we could find a product line that is healthy that ALL of us can afford. If we can develop a food/drink that can save ALL of us time and money…that my friends will be a winner. Who among us would like to be that next Genius and create such a product? Until that time, there are so many of us who can NOT afford the cost of eating, drinking, consuming those supplements of good health. It is so very sad. We in this community may be rich with knowledge, but poor on cash.
I couldn’t agree more with Kjelene’s statement!
We need to get the chemicals and processing out of our food! When I shop at a supermarket, I’d say IMHO that around 90% of what is there is not food, but over-processed, chemically laden trash.
With the Health plan that Washington is trying to pass, we need to all write our congressmen/women and senators and tell them we want natural foods, NATURAL supplements and so on to be REQUIRED to be covered by health insurance.
What we have now is NOT health insurance, but is sick insurance! We get sick, see a doctor, are given medications and either have to take more medications to combat the side effects of the 1st medication, and then take more to combat those, and so on until we are so ill that we eventually die of something the medications nay have caused!
We need to insist on healthy, unprocessed foods in our schools and our senior nutrition programs! These programs also need to take into account “special diets” and food allergies (especially for those who’ve already had medical procedures that have glued us at the hips with medical doctors!)
We also need to insist that doctors be taught about nutrition and “Natural Aftercare” for those of us who have had medications, procedures and/or surgeries that have left us with little to nothing to turn to except the pharma companies for certain things, while we ALL need proper nutritional, herbal and other support in the mean time!
I simply don’t understand why nutrition is so poor in schools for children and in our senior and other food programs!
Why is it we buy foods we think are healthy, and yet are covered with pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and gassed with an array of chemicals to ripen them? And we get irradiated foods as well, with NO warning labels to even be able to make a sound choice!
Try staying away from a grocery store for a month or so, then walk into your local store’s produce section. The smell of pesticides alone is enough to make one ill and not want to go back! Try a non-organic, then an organic carrot juice. We wonder why kids don’t like carrot juice, fruits and vegetables? After trying that, you’ll know why your kids don’t like it! Non-organic carrot juice tastes terrible!
Keep up the good work, and I’m glad someone has the funds to speak up about the health industry! Now we need covered in our health insurance, or government plan, a way so that every American can afford to eat right!
School food programs are horrible when it comes to nutrition! OK, so some have gotten rid of soda, but are still using high fructose corn syrup on just about everything, trucked in microwave meals for many, and they wonder why kids are getting sicker?
Our seniors and disabled individuals also need to have access to milk that is not processed to death with a ton of antibiotics (sure the USDA spot checks, but I can’t even drink regular milk from a grocery store, and since the addition of BGH to increase production, the use of antibiotics has risen and the spot checks done far less frequently!
Affording a good, healthy, natural diet for many, especially in this economy, is getting harder and harder to do, but if we are to have a healthy country, we need to make this a priority!