small farmer

Chapter 596 Misunderstanding of Honeysuckle Tea (34)

"Come on, one piece of cake for each person! Don't worry, everyone has..."

Back home, Grandma Liu fulfilled her promise, brought out a plate of pastries, and distributed them to the little ones with a smile.

Zhang Feng smiled, and sat in the yard with the old man and Yiyi, cleaning up the leaves on the honeysuckle, because these leaves cannot be used to stir-fry tea, and all of them need to be removed.

While cleaning the leaves of honeysuckle, everyone watched the little kids playing in the yard. This kind of life is also very leisurely and comfortable.

"Hehe, these monkeys are so lively every day!!" The old man also said with a smile.

"By the way, Yiyi, Xiaofeng, when do you think you are going to get married?"

"This..." Zhang Feng was dumbfounded. It seemed that the old man wanted to hug his great-grandson.

"Grandpa..." Yiyi coquettishly said.

"I think you guys have to hurry up, you're all 26 and [-]!" Grandpa Liu continued with a smile.

"I will discuss this matter with Yiyi!" Zhang Feng smiled. In fact, the two have already discussed it. They will play for a few years before getting married. This is just Zhang Feng's rhetoric.

"Then hurry up, your grandma and I are still waiting to hold our great-grandson!" The old man said with a smile.

"That's right, before the old man and I leave, I can take care of your children for a few days." Grandma Liu also came over and said to the two of them at this time.

"Grandpa, grandma, you are still in such good health, you will definitely live to be a hundred years old!!" Yiyi said with a smile.

"Hehe, you two guys!!" The old man smiled helplessly, knowing that the two definitely have no plans to get married in the near future! !

Fortunately, the two elders are in very good health now. Since they came to this idyllic Moon Lake, the bodies of the old man and Grandma Liu have changed too much, which is amazing.
Only the two elders know how healthy their bodies are. They are not like old people who are over seventy years old, just like middle-aged people in their 60s and [-]s.

The two are full of energy every day, eat well, sleep soundly, and can see the picturesque scenery of Moon Lake every day, so they are naturally in a good mood.

So although the two elders felt a little regretful, they didn't force Zhang Feng and them any more.

……

"Xiaofeng, you come to light the fire, it doesn't matter if it burns a bit bigger!"

Frying tea requires a high fire and high temperature to kill the blueness, so that the green taste in the honeysuckle can be removed, and the mellow fragrance of the tea will appear after frying.

Therefore, it is very important to grasp the heat. Fortunately, the old man has fired several times, so the technology is not bad.

The honeysuckle tea that the old man wants to fry belongs to the scented tea category.
It is made by using high-quality green tea as the green body, adding fresh honeysuckle according to the scenting process of honeysuckle tea.

Summer is the picking period for honeysuckle. The flowers are pure white when they first bloom, and turn yellow the next day, and the aroma gradually disappears. Therefore, it is best to pick on the day of flowering.

Honeysuckle is a woody vine of the Lonicera family. The honeysuckle tea made from its flowers and tea leaves has the functions of delicious aroma, cooling and detoxification, and activating the meridians.Drinking this tea often can keep fit and prevent diseases, and prolong life.

High-quality honeysuckle tea, the shape is tight and straight, the color is gray-green and smooth, the aroma is pure and timeless, the soup is bright yellow-green, the taste is sweet and delicious, and the bottom of the leaf is tender and soft.

"This honeysuckle tea first appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and it was mentioned in "Materia Medica Seeking Truth":
'In the south of the Yangtze River, replace tea with this. '

There is also a record in "Plant Names and Facts": "In the summer of Wuzhong, flowers are used to drink tea, and tea shops use newly sold honeysuckle as the most expensive, all of which are produced in Zhongzhou." '"

While preparing, the old man introduced the history of honeysuckle frying to Zhang Feng.

Zhang Feng nodded, and then continued to listen to the old man's introduction, the method of making honeysuckle:

90. Preparation of main ingredients: Honeysuckle tea requires 4% tea as the main ingredient.The picked fresh tea leaves with one bud and two leaves or one bud and three leaves are made into dry tea according to the production method of green tea. It is required that the water content should not exceed [-]%, and old leaves, broken leaves, tea powder and impurities should be removed.

5. Honeysuckle harvesting: May to July is the honeysuckle harvesting period. During this period, when the flower buds turn from green to white, the upper part is swollen, and the lower part is blue, it can be picked. If there are flowers that have opened, they should be harvested together. .

[-]. Tea aroma absorption: put the dry tea and honeysuckle flowers in a sealed container and spread them in separate layers, that is, one layer of tea leaves and one layer of flowers, and seal the container mouth with a cover.

After that, every 2-3 hours, the silver flower is taken out, the tea leaves are mixed well, and then the tea leaves and the silver flower are spread in the interlayer repeatedly.In this way, the woad leaves can absorb the aroma of honeysuckle.

1. Scented tea preparation: After the tea leaves have absorbed the fragrance, take out the honeysuckle and expose it to the sun. When the honeysuckle can be powdered by hand rubbing, it can be mixed with the tea at a ratio of 10:[-], which is honeysuckle tea.Honeysuckle must be dried in the sun and should not be dried, otherwise the original color of the honeysuckle cannot be maintained.The scented tea made by the above method can achieve the effect of good color, fragrance and taste.

"Ah, old man, I understand. So that's how honeysuckle tea is made!" Hearing the old man's introduction, Zhang Feng suddenly realized.

"Hehe, you must think that honeysuckle tea is fried honeysuckle, right?"

"That's right, don't you always say that I never knew about it!" Zhang Feng smiled embarrassedly, and then said, "No wonder you always ask me to pick the fresh tea leaves in the yard!"

"Of course, what we are going to fry now is your moon lake bitter tea, and then use this bitter tea to absorb the fragrance of fresh honeysuckle, and finally mix it with dried honeysuckle powder, so as to make honeysuckle tea! "The old man explained to Zhang Feng with a smile.

It turns out that there are so many stories about honeysuckle tea, and the tea leaves still account for the main part, which needs to be made by mixing 90.00% green tea or other tea leaves with honeysuckle.

For example, the tea made from green tea and jasmine is called jasmine tea, the tea made from roses is called rose tea, and the tea is called whatever flower is used.

But the main ingredients are other tea leaves, and the role of these flowers is only to provide their unique aroma.

Thinking of this, Zhang Feng couldn't help but smile wryly. He didn't expect that this is honeysuckle tea, which is so different from what he imagined.

But thinking about it, Zhang Feng can understand it. After all, just the taste of honeysuckle is too monotonous, and I have also drank rose tea and jasmine tea before, and it does taste like green tea.

Zhang Feng felt that he was not the only one who might be misunderstood. It is estimated that people who do not drink tea often do not know this knowledge, because the Chinese tea culture is too extensive and profound. After thousands of years of inheritance, the knowledge in it is as vast as the ocean.

"Okay, the tea germ is finally ready!!" After working for an hour or two, the old man was sweating profusely.

After high-temperature greening, quick kneading, and complete roasting, Moon Lake bitter tea also exudes a strong fragrance. When you sniff it gently, the aroma is tangy and intoxicating.

"The rest of the old man is smoking incense, right?"

"Hehe, yes, this step will take a long time, let's take it slowly!"

The old man smiled and put the tea into the box, and then started the next step.

(End of this chapter)