Spiderwort Tea is an absolute delight to consume and it is aesthetically pleasing. Using fresh, wild spiderwort flowers you can enjoy a tasty and healthy treat while providing your friends and family with an experience that few have had.
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If you have never heard of spiderwort (tradescantia) then here is the big day! Spiderwort is a species of plant that has a very wide range in the United States! Growing in nearly every US state that is east of the continental divide and often in abundant numbers, you should have no problem finding a ton of them!
Spiderwort has a wide range of uses! It gets its name from the leaves of the plant being applied to spider bites to reduce itching and inflammation. The plant has also been historically been used for topical pain relief (just mashing the roots and applying them to the effected area), As a laxative when consumed as a tea, relief from itching, and has even been used as a poultice for skin cancer.
Spiderwort is also an incredibly useful ornamental plant for your garden, producing blooms from spring and normally though the summer, often times I don’t even have time to pick all of the flower blooms. One fact I must add, is that the blooms appear full and plump in the morning, but wither as the day heats up. If it is a cloudy, cool day, the blooms will stay plump longer. So if you want to pick spiderwort blooms its best to do it in the morning!
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- Spiderwort flowers
- Water
- Honey or sugar (optional)
- Lemon juice (optional)
EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO MAKE SPIDERWORT TEA
You may use a variety of things to heat up the water to make tea! However I will provide some beautiful and fantastic options below to really amp up the spiderwort tea experience.
HOW TO FIND AND PICK SPIDERWORT FLOWERS
- Spiderwort is a very easy plant to identify! The flowers completely give it away, but it wouldn’t hurt to see the leaves. The leaves curl at
- The leaves resemble long, wide, blades of grass. They do not have lobes, they have straight edges.
- The spiderworts real claim to fame is these quite expressive flowers! They have 3 petals and can range from blue and purple, to pink, magenta, and white!
HOW TO MAKE SPIDERWORT TEA
- My process of making spiderwort tea is a simple one!
- I simply place my spiderwort flowers in a mason jar and collect them from day to day until I have enough flowers to make a batch of tea or to make a batch of jelly!
- After you have picked enough flowers to make a batch of tea, go ahead and put them in your preferred brewing vessel and add hot water and allow the flowers to steep.
- Allow the flowers to steep for 3-5 minutes, or you could cold brew them overnight.
- Strain the flowers out of the tea and serve hot or over ice!
- Increasing the amount of flowers or decreasing the amount of water added will change the taste and concentration of the tea! You can adjust this to your desired flavor as time goes on.
Recipe Tips and Variations
- You may make spiderwort jelly by simply adding pectin and sugar to this mix but that is the subject of future posts!
- Adding lemon juice to this blue tea will turn it a lovely deep magenta color!
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Spiderwort Tea is an absolute delight to consume and it is aesthetically pleasing. Using fresh, wild spiderwort flowers you can enjoy a tasty and healthy treat while providing your friends and family with an experience that few have had.
Ingredients
- 2-4 cups of spiderwort flowers
- 2-4 cups of water
- Sugar or honey to taste (optional)
- Lemon juice to taste (optional)
Instructions
- Pick enough flowers to brew a batch of tea.
- Put the flowers in your favorite brewing vessel and pour hot water over them and allow them to steep for 3-5 minutes.
- Strain out the flowers and sweeten to taste if desired.
- Serve hot or over ice.
Notes
Adding lemon juice will immediately turn the blue/purple tea into a pink/magenta tea and it is so cool to watch! I like to make "Magic Tea" with it for my kids!
Adding lemon juice will also give the spiderwort tea a nice tart flavor.
Adding pectin and sugar to this juice will make spiderwort jelly.
You can adjust the strength of the tea by increasing the amount of flowers or decreasing the amount of water.
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I started cooking at a very young age. In middle school, my friends and their parents would ask me to cook food for them because I could make something out of nothing. I love to cook up new concoctions and see what everyone likes. When I became of working age, I started as a buss boy at a barbecue restaurant, and then moved on to work all positions of the restaurant industry. From head chef of a Jamaican restaurant in Tulsa, OK, to sous chef at a highly accredited bistro on the Oregon coast, all before I turned 21.
I Inherited land in southeast Oklahoma and now spend my days working a Fedex delivery route and working with my wife and 3 young boys on our rural homestead. We raise many different kinds of animals and some vegetable gardens. I hunt all manor of large and small game, and butcher all of my own meat. We harvest wild edibles of all kinds and enjoy to cook with them and eat them.
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