Babao tea has a long history, and people have been drinking it since the Tang Dynasty. Because of its delicious taste, no bitterness, many benefits of ingredients and convenient drinking, it is popular. In the northwest of China, people entertain relatives and friends with eight-treasure tea, which is called "aftertaste".
The brewed tea set consists of three parts: a tea cover, a tea bowl and a tea tray, which are called "covered bowl tea" or "three-bubble table"; Cover for the sky, support for the ground, and the bowl is human, also known as the "three-talented bowl."
What are the eight treasures of eight-treasure tea?
Babao tea, as its name implies, has eight kinds of precious tea, but in actual daily drinking, the ingredients are not uniform, and the types of materials used are often less than or more than eight.
Hui families generally drink "eight-treasure tea" and more "three-spice tea" (tea, rock sugar, longan meat); Some drink "white four products" (Shaanxi green tea, sugar, persimmon, red dates); Others like "red four products" (brick tea, brown sugar, red dates and dried fruits) and "five flavors of tea" (green tea, hawthorn, sesame, ginger slices and sugar).
Eight-treasure tea is usually dominated by tea leaves, and the ingredients are rock sugar (or sugar), medlar, red dates, walnuts, longan, sesame seeds, raisins, apple slices and so on. Has been added. You can also add different materials according to your preferences and physique, just like Laba porridge.
When drinking, you need to brew with boiling water and soak for a few minutes to make the taste more leaching. We will find that the taste of each sip of tea will change slightly, and the taste is very rich, because many materials will release their own unique tastes at different times.
Babao tea can be drunk for a long time. With the gradual melting of rock sugar, the sweetness will become more and more obvious. Finally, after drinking enough, you can eat longan, red dates and dried fruits in the bowl.
Qibabao tea
Babao tea is popular because of its sweetness and health ingredients. Bagged eight-treasure tea can also be seen everywhere in supermarkets and online, which is convenient to brew, but it is not worthy of the tea you want to drink, so I will teach you a little secret recipe for making eight-treasure tea myself.
Composition:
3 grams of tea, 5 grams of medlar and 3 grams of raisins.
Crystal sugar 10g red dates, 2 licorice 1g
2 dried chrysanthemums and 3g dried longan meat.
Exercise:
1. Put Lycium barbarum, raisins, dried chrysanthemums, red dates, licorice and dried longan in a small bowl, and rinse off the surface floating soil with 50 ml of boiling water.
2. Put the rock sugar and the tea you want to drink into the bottom of the cup. The best choice for tea is green tea and white tea.
3. Add Lycium barbarum, raisins, dried chrysanthemum, red dates, licorice and dried longan.
4. Pour boiling water into the cup, cover it and let it stand for about 3~5 minutes.
Ps: Rock sugar is not easy to dissolve completely when it sinks at the bottom of the cup. After the eight-treasure tea is brewed, it can be gently stirred with a spoon or a stirring rod, so that the sweetness of rock sugar can be evenly blended into the eight-treasure tea.
It's the middle of winter and the weather is cold. In addition to drinking a bowl of warm eight-treasure tea, I would like to remind everyone to keep warm and warm, and soak their feet before going to bed. Always drink hot porridge and tea!