I cut open a bunch of bags to make a Christmas gift blend and noticed that the material inside is 100% chamomile petals. The aroma is assertive for a flower I generally find demure. Definitely more apple in taste than floral or haylike. Sweeter than expected but it does finish a tad drying. Leaves a lingering sweet pollen-fruity-floral aftertaste which is surprising!
This one’s pretty impressive as far as bagged chamomile goes.
Aside: My cupboard has finally reached sub-230 teas, the majority of which are puerh samples. I am excited about this.
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What did you blend the chamomile with?
Yes, inquiring minds want to know!
I honestly don’t remember everything in that blend, something like CS Sleepytime… chamomile, lemon balm, spearmint, lavender, hops, linden, a few more herbs I think might’ve been California native plants.
I made a few others. Nettle and rosehips; red clover and marshmallow root; linden and osmanthus.
(Visions from some young adult novel from a hundred years ago of a little bent-over granny puttering in her stillroom with the cat watching :) I love the notion of making your own for gift giving!
I’m intrigued by the red clover and marshmallow root!
What did you blend the chamomile with?
Yes, inquiring minds want to know!
I honestly don’t remember everything in that blend, something like CS Sleepytime… chamomile, lemon balm, spearmint, lavender, hops, linden, a few more herbs I think might’ve been California native plants.
I made a few others. Nettle and rosehips; red clover and marshmallow root; linden and osmanthus.
(Visions from some young adult novel from a hundred years ago of a little bent-over granny puttering in her stillroom with the cat watching :) I love the notion of making your own for gift giving!
I’m intrigued by the red clover and marshmallow root!