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Hi. I’m Todd Elliott.
I'm from the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in Rutherford County.
And I’m here today to tell you about how to make Tea.
Now we’re sitting outside the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden.
So right here we've got some pineapple mint and some chocolate mint.
And I’m going to show you how we can trim these and take them in
and make some good Extension Service Tea.
Well now that we've got our mint, we can start making mint tea.
So what we’re going to do is we are going to take some of these leaves
and stems and we’re going to strip them into
a Mason jar. Mason jars work.
If you have a teapot you can also steep right into the teapot.
We’re going to strip some of these leave in.
They smell wonderful.
And then get a few of these here.
We’re going to pour our hot water directly in like this.
Fill it up.
Now when you’re making tea, you always want to put a lid on it.
Part of what makes the odor for the mint is
something called volatile oils.
Volatile oils can be released when exposed to heat;
which means they can go into the air.
If you have a lid on it, it makes it hit the lid, fall back down,
and gives your tea a stronger flavor.
Now, while we let it steep, we have all this leftover mint.
So we can strip it off the stems and dry it.
And you can take these dried mint leaves and later
make tea later in the year.
And sweeten it with a little sugar or some honey.
And you can either put an ice cube in it if you want
ice tea or you can keep it warm and have a warm cup of tea.
So, thank you.