Make Your Own Christmas Tea: These Ingredients Work Best Together

Making your own Christmas tea is not only a heavenly drink for the colder Christmas season, but is also suitable as a gift for friends or relatives. We will explain how and with which ingredients you can make a delicious tea yourself and how best to store it.

Make Christmas tea yourself: These ingredients are suitable

For many, the colder season in particular means: tea time! For tea lovers or as a gift idea, it is a great way to make a very individual tea yourself.

• When you think of Christmas, you often immediately associate the smell of cinnamon and cloves with it. These ingredients can be mixed into almost any Christmas tea.
• Black tea is usually used for the base of the tea , in which various spices or dried fruits are mixed.
• If you prefer fruit tea, you can also use a relatively tasteless fruit or rooibos tea as a base.
• In addition to cinnamon and cloves, the spices cardamom, anise or ginger as well as apples, tangerines and vanilla also harmonize.
• You can achieve a slightly unusual taste with dried rose hips, hibiscus blossoms or finely chopped almonds.
• If you like the tea sweet, you can sweeten it afterwards with honey or sugar.

Preparation of the ingredients

To ensure that the taste of the individual ingredients is also very intense, you should follow a few tips.

• Vanilla can be purchased as a pod and grated into the tea mixture. You can vary the amount according to your taste.
• If you want a tangerine flavor in your tea, peel a tangerine and set the peel aside. The skin of the clementine is then torn into large pieces and dried in the oven on a baking tray at 70°C for about an hour.
• Proceed in a similar way when using apple: The peel is dried in pieces for about 45 minutes at 70°C in the oven.
• For the intense cinnamon taste, you should use whole cinnamon sticks when preparing.

Preparing and giving away the tea

Now that you know all the tips and tricks for the preparation, you can start!

• The fruit skins should be dried before starting the preparation and the spices reduced in size. You can use either a knife or a mortar for this.
• Now all the ingredients are mixed in a bowl – you can adjust the quantities according to your taste.
• It is best to use glass storage jars to store the tea. These should be airtight and dry.
• It is also a particularly nice idea to give away the tea at the end .
• For example, if you tie a bow around the glass and design a small label with the ingredients of the tea, everyone will be happy about the lovingly made gift.
• The brewing time of the tea is about 3-5 minutes.