Let us say that like me, you use loose tea and you do not always want to pour it through a strainer before drinking the tea. You make not just one cup of tea, but instead, a whole pot of tea with your loose tea. That is what I do. I make a pot of tea that contains different tealeaves and some mint. Sometimes the tealeaves are already in a bag, but the mint never is, unless I bag it. This explains how to do that without much forethought.
Measure the loose tea in a coffee filter.
Gather the ruffles of the coffee filter in your hand while pressing down and at the same time, retaining the circular base of the coffee filter.
Close the coffee filter with two staples or with thread. Drop the tea bag in the boiling water. Put a lid on the pan, remove it from the stove eye and let it steep for 5 minutes. Or place the tea bag in a mug, pour boiling water over it into the mug, let it steep for 5 minutes. Either way, let it steep for 5 minutes.
I don’t make mint tea like this anymore, at least not unless I need to make these for a special reason. Now I use tea screen filters that fit in a mug.
I like how you’ve decorated the place.
The boiling water looks so cool in the photo.
Cheers!
That’s a good trick to know. Thanks.
I also like how you’ve gotten your blog into the season.
I like the color of your tea. 😛 I use a tea ball. I have never had mint in my tea. 😮 Shocking, I know, but your tea really does look good. I am going to have to give it a try.
Hi Donna,
yep I have done this alot, I used to buy organic wild harvested red raspberry leaf tea and you had to make your own bag. Coffee filters work great.
Very good! I am not a tea drinker, but if I ever need a tea bag I will know what to do! 🙂
Very cool Donna……Hadn’t thought of doing it quite that way….but I am going to try…:-)
@Sheri and Elaine:
Thanks for commenting on my E-decor. 😆 It’ll be changing again very soon.
@Applie:
I don’t have a tea-ball. My kitchen is under-stocked! 😮
@Tressa:
I prefer to fill my tea bags with coffee.
@Ginger and Michielle:
Hi Michielle and Ginger 🙂
You know, I have a lot of these brown unbleached coffee filters from when I was going to use them in my cold process soap making (when I infused calendula into olive for a scrumptious soap). I ended up using something else but I have so many boxes of these coffee filters now. I want to try what you’ve done! Now I’ll just have to figure out where to buy the tea.
Have a most excellent day! , Robin
This was supposed to be the link I put for my blog. Silly me, something else showed up from my C&P because I was looking up something from the Waltons. 😆 :blush:
I have been using coffee filters by folding them in half and then folding in the corners alternating then folding over the top and stapling once so it resembles a regular tea bag.
Jule thanks for adding that. 🙂