#rooibos tea

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Peach Tea Lemonade

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rooibos tea cat

[gardening-guy]

for all my fellow tea drinkers...

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[sunny-possum-pal]

Rooibos with milk and honey

[timeteaca]

African Treasure: The Story of Rooibos Tea

What do you prefer: tea, coffee? Maybe chicory? Wait, we know – rooibos! Did you guess it? Oh, even if not, TimeTea is sure that you will be interested in reading about where and how this amber-red drink comes from.

So, rooibos (or rooibos) is a herbal tea made from the shoots and leaves of a plant called aspalathus linearis. This specimen belongs to the Legume family and is a shrub up to 1.5 meters in height with small, needle-like leaves.

Aspalathus lineara in its natural form grows exclusively in South Africa – 200 km from Cape Town within the boundaries of the Cederberg mountain range. Today, of course, the plant is cultivated on an industrial scale, but still the plantations do not go beyond the Cederberg Valley. And all for the sake of a pleasant-tasting and energizing drink, which at one time replaced tea for local residents, and then for settlers from Europe.

The first to collect leaves and branches of Aspalatus lineara were the indigenous people – the Hottentot people. Only in the 18th century did the Dutch learn about the plant, and then – closer to the 19th century – the British also caught up. The fact of the “discovery” of rooibos for Europeans is attributed to Carl Peter Thunberg, a Swedish naturalist who was in South Africa on behalf of a Dutch company back in the 1700s. The drink was liked by sophisticated society, and at the beginning of the 20th century they began to export it with might and main. Today, the annual production of rooibos is about 12,000 tons, and half of this is exported.

If you are already tired of coffee and tea or need/want to give up caffeine, rooibos is a great option. It quenches thirst well, tones up, is useful for both adults and children, and can also be drunk without sugar. This herbal tea itself contains a sufficient amount of glucose.

Ready! We’ll dry it and sell it. In addition, rooibos contains enough vitamin C, flavonoids, and a number of minerals. In particular, the flavonoid quercetin has antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antitumor properties. Some studies show the effectiveness of rooibos against mutagens, CNS damage and free radicals. Although we, of course, recommend that if something happens, contact doctors, and not tea sellers.

Today you can find this herbal tea in any form: loose, in bags, in pure form and with additives. They even make so-called espresso from rooibos. In general, be sure to try it if you haven’t already!

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Blue sky and green... redbush?

a stupid walk for my stupid mental health or whatever it is they say.

Cuppa: Lidl green rooibos with cherry and raspberry. Green rooibos? Green red tea? Confusing but it tastes good.

View: the Campsie fells under a spring sky

Snack: Mister Choc Neo mini chocolate bar.

It's a very beautiful spring day, shame my brain declares it to be a sad one. Never mind, this too shall pass.

Spring seems very late this year, probably because Easter was so early. I feel like I missed it somehow. Maybe I'll make roast lamb and some of those little chocolate nest cakes with the mini eggs in them.

One more look at that sky:

[do-you-like-this-food]

French Vanilla rooibos tea

[misswifi]

My coping mechanism for stress is weird brah. Idk.

IF IM STRESSED YOU BETTER KNOW THAT IM SUIPING ON MY ROOIBOS TEA, WATCHING JAY FROM THE KUBZ SCOUTS(on yt) WORKING ON WHATEVER MY BRAIN THINKS OF. A PAINTING OR MAYBE A TEDDIE, HECK IVE EVEN DONE JEWELRY. MY BRAIN KNOWS NO BOUNDS WHEN STRESSED AND I LOVE IT!<3<3<3<3

Just dont make me write please, I suck at that. ;^;

Or just reading my Bible which is effect most of the time<3

[chikuwashika]

👹🍮🥤

[aruharus-minitelier]

ピンクグレープフルーツティー / 花水木

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[iwillbemother]

🍡色々とストレスが溜まり、『ユーロの星』というチョコでコーティングされた揚げせん（頂き物）を食べています😤

🍵ちょっとした事ですぐにイラつく。よくない傾向だなと思います😓

深呼吸して落ち着け、私❗️

[meeshnut]

Doing a western brew.

Friend went to DC and brought me back this herbal blend.

I tried to contain the rooibos but I was unsuccessful.

Good tea though 😋

[ashandthorns]

To A Girl In A Garden

O soft and dainty maiden, from afar

I watch you, as amidst the flowers you move,

And pluck them, singing.

More golden than all gold your tresses are:

Never was harp-note like your voice, my love,

Your voice sweet-ringing.

New Sappho tea blend from Old Growth Alchemy: rose saffron and rooibos

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The citric acid in lemon is a natural way to create printed designs using a discharge technique. The combination of iron & tannin is an amazing way to make darker colors that can be gently removed with the bleaching strength of lemon juice. Join me as I repurpose rooibos tea for dyeing cotton, sadden the color with iron & make a reverse polka dot design with the help of citric acid.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Lemon discharge printing

1:39 Tannin in natural dyeing

4:08 W.O.F.

4:33 Iron water

6:28 Fiber prep

7:24 Tea tannin dye

8:34 How to handle iron

10:01 Iron bath

12:38 Printing set-up

15:21 Lemon discharge

17:12 Thickeners

18:29 Printing with lemon

20:15 Final steps

21:57 Results & wrap up

23:22 Sneak peek of next tutorial

24:07 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Tea - rooibos dye shown in video

Iron water - ferrous sulfate powder

Lemon juice or citric acid

Calcium carbonate - chalk

Thickener - gum tragacanth shown in video

Bowls

Measuring spoons

Pot with lid

Tongs

Spoon

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Painter's tape

Scrap cloth for blotting