A Wonderful Tonic & Natural “Soda Pop”
Ingredients:
· Kombucha mushrooms (can be purchased online by googling “buy Kombucha mushroom.”)
· ¾ – 1 cup white sugar
· 5 tea bags of conventional tea ( such as Lipton)
· Boil 3 quarts of water
· Add ¾ cups of sugar (once the mushroom works on the white sugar it transforms it to good food, including lactic acid and a potent detoxifying substance called glucuronic acid). Don’t use maple syrup or whole sugar, since it’s difficult to insure consistency. More sugar may be used for added sweetness
· Simmer for 5 minutes or less to dissolve the sugar
· Remove from heat & add 5 tea bags (remove paper labels first)
· Remove tea bags after 10 minutes
· Allow the tea to cool to room temperature
· Pour the room temperature tea into a 4 quart glass or plastic container such as a bowl. This allows the mushroom lots of room to grow. The mouth of the bowl should be as great, or greater than the depth of the tea.
Kombucha mushrooms are alive so certain conditions need to be followed
· Gently place the mushroom into the room temperature tea with your fingers. Sometimes it sinks sometimes not. It will right itself within a few days.
· Do not use any metal on or around the mushroom; for example, metal tongs. Even a small contact can cause trouble for the mushroom.
· Cover the bowl with cheese cloth or a cotton or linen dish towel. Secure with clothes pins and place in undisturbed rather comfortable warm room for example the laundry room.
· Place the date you made tea, stated on a note card on top of the cloth and the date you expect it to be completed. (Usually one week or more) if it is summer it often ferments before that time. If you want it less sweet, keep it covered longer. It should be fizzy a bit, sweet and sour and have no taste of tea.
· To taste it don’t use a metal dipper, use a coffee cup, ect. that has no metal on it.
· After the Kombucha is completed a week (sometimes less, sometimes more) remove the mushroom. Look on the underside of it and you’ll find a second mushroom attached to the bottom. Pull it apart from the “mother” and make two batches next time or pass on to a friend. The same mushroom can be used again and again.
· Refrigerate the tea in a capped glass pitcher. The mushroom can also be refrigerated in a class bowl and kept for several months. Kombucha beverage will lose its effervescence within one week.
· Four ounces is usually best amount to drink daily. (Your body would have told you this because of its powerful flavor and sensation). For a child ½ that amount is advisable. It is a good idea to work up to four ounces slowly over a period of 1-2 weeks.
· For animals dilute 50% with water
· Most people with yeast allergies tolerate Kombucha but it is best to start with a very small amount first, then build.
· An excellent variation (especially to aid in digestion) is to add 1-cup freshly peeled ginger, coarsely chopped to brewing Kombucha. Serve in a delicate stemmed liqueur glass to honor your work
· Enjoy!
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Hello,
What ailment is this K Tea for?
I’m suferring, as we speak, of painful “heavy leg” symptoms. I need help, please.
Kombucha is an overall tonic, if you would like to talk about dealing with your issue feel free to call (716-941-1045). We can set up a free 15min session to see if Homeopathy is a fit.
I am a great lover of kombucha, both for its lovely taste and for the fact that it was an ingredient in my fight against cancer back in 1999. When I discovered it, I had just returned to work with, unbenknownst to my bosses, a terminal diagnosis, some six months after an operation to remove a cancerous kidney. I was not happy to be back and indeed my managers, who wished me to resign, were making life extremely difficult for me.
This was a stressful time as you can imagine and kombucha helped a good deal. There is much in the public record about the general health benefits of kombucha and it is my belief that the fact that it is a ‘live’ drink makes it especially beneficial.
Perhaps as imprtant though, it tastes very nice especially on these hot days, it is very refreshing and it is extremely inexpensive to produce.
Anyone who wishes to start making it would be advised to obtain a continuous brewing jar. These are quite expensive to buy but they make producing kombucha very easy indeed.
What a great inspirational story. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Can you share with us a source for the continuous brewing jars?
Thank you Joette
Dear Joette, it’s a long time since I bought mine and I no longer have any contact details. This link takes you to a site here in the UK that does them and shows a photo so people can see what they are like:
http://www.harmonic-health.com/kombucha-tea-fermentation-jar.php
Best wishes,
Kevin
Is there a way to add flavors to the Kombucha? I have bought various brands over the years and I especially like GTS brand. I like the different flavors they have, but have never found a recipe that adds other flavors.
There are many ways. My favorite is; chop up fresh ginger add to the mixture to ferment with the ingredients and it tastes just like ginger ale.
Kombucha is magical. It gives me as much if not more egnery as coffee without the egnery slump or jitters afterwards. It has a funky smell that might drive away an unadventurous palate, but I urge you to push forward and take a big gulp. I like Citrus. Mouth watering as I write about it. Yum!
Within reason, many different herbs can be added to your tea, either for enhanced flavour or for a particular healing response from a particular herb. I say ‘within reason’ because certain flavourings are claimed to harm the fungus. I’ve never tried but I’m told that bergamot in Earl Grey tea inhibits the fungus.
I’m also told (something I haven’t tried again) that if you add elder flowers, they impart a real fizzy almost champagne-like feel to the drink.
Best wishes, Kevin
This is something I never tried making, but I ahve bought it pre made at a health food store, abeit it is quite expensive so time to make my own! Thanks for the recipe, you sure are versed in many health related topics Joette!
Should kombucha be avoided if someone is battling a yeast or fungus rash? My 21 month old broke out in what we think is a yeast rash a few weeks after starting it.
I would certainly stop using kombucha when someone has a reaction to it. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that he can’t have it later in life. I’d give it a about 6 months to a year.