Herbaria makes teas from wild-crafted herbs in Hungary, I've enjoyed their Linden Flowers, their Elder Flowers and their Fennel Seed. This is a tea made of one of my favourites, rosehips. Not only tasty, but good for you too, lots of Vitamin C in rosehips. Another tea to enjoy.
This is another tea from Herbaria, which makes what they call wild crafted herbal teas. This one features fennel seed, which has the scent (it fills my cabinet -wonderfully!) and taste of anise or liquorice, a flavour I enjoy. Quite good tasting.
It's also good for you. A natural diuretic and kidney tonic, helping to flush excess water and toxins from your body; can be used as gripe water for colicy babies; reduces stomach issues, such as flatulence, bloating, indigestion and stomach cramps; and is an appetite suppressant.
I bought and tried, and enjoyed, Herbaria's Linden Flowers Tea, but this is the tea that I was actually looking for and thought I had bought. I have enjoyed Elderflower champagne, and sugary Elderflower drink, so I was intrigued to try to see if this tea could extend my enjoyment of this flower. From what I've read, elderflowers are normally used to make cordials, the sugary drink I mentioned, so this might be an unusual way of using elderflowers. From what I've also read, using it as a tea could help boost your immune system, soothe the respiratory tract, reduce fever and stimulate circulation (perhaps all good things in this flu season). When I did come to tasting it, I must say I liked it, and continue to enjoy it, but it didn't remind me of any of the elderflower I had drunk before. Well, similar, but different than the rest.
I grew up with a Linden tree in my backyard, for years it flowered in July, filling the area with the wonderful scent that I've grown more to appreciate in the past few years. Certainly, there are several linden trees growing where I live now, even some right outside my condo. But, little did I realize that the linden flowers could be useful in other ways, many ways. Linden flowers, called lime-flower in Britain, can be used to make honey; they can be also used to make perfume; they have medicinal properties, and can be used to treat restlessness, hysteria, and headaches; they can be eaten raw; lastly, they can be used to make herbal tea. Linden Flowers tea is very popular in Europe. Herbaria has been growing plants, what they call wild-crafting, for herbal teas for 60 years in Hungary. This is a herbal tea and, as such, is caffeine-free. Certainly, it is good tasting, a pleasant flavour that, though it didn't evoke the smell of linden flowers that I so enjoy, certainly might now that I can associate the two. Sipping this tea while sitting under a flowering linden tree just might be a very enjoyable pastime.
