Making basic homemade fruit tea

sliced orange
sliced orange

I have grown wary of many shop brought drinks, as often there is too much going on flavour wise, or too many ingredients that I would rather avoid. Sometimes I just want a basic refreshing fruit tea, but baring cost in mind. Many people are happy to pay a premium for a packet fruit tea drink, which I used to, but I now avoid more often. So I set out to try a few different fruits, that were just sliced and had hot water to accompany – simple and cheap.

sliced orange
sliced orange

I wasn’t going to squeeze whole oranges into a mug for a stronger flavour. I wanted to see what would generate a reasonable flavour when sliced and stewed. I kept it simple and tried grapefruit, lemon and orange.

sliced grapefruit
sliced grapefruit

Not surprisingly the lemon won, but I thought the grapefruit might actually provide more flavour, but alas no.  The orange if stewed hardly provided any flavour, which wasn’t a surprise at all.

lemons
lemons

So I just ate the grapefruit and oranges, and stuck with sliced lemon. All you have to do is wash the lemon, slice it and then place two or three slices in a mug, and pour the hot water. In five minutes you have a refreshing fruit tea drink, which is stronger than you might think.

homemade lemon tea
homemade lemon tea

In the comments it would be great to read about your ‘cheap’ homemade drinks.

2 Comments

  1. Hi Andrew – Thanks for conducting some fruity experimentation … I’m loving the idea of just using slices of lemon to create a soothing drink. I should try that today (I have a bit of a sore throat).

    We’ve often popped lemon and lime wedges with some mint leaves into a jug of water … it makes for an icy cool drink in summer (but probably one not very useful for cool days).

  2. Hi Tracey,

    I had a cool mint drink years back at covent garden in London which I enjoyed, so your lemon, lime and mint drink sounds great. 🙂

    The weather is like a yo-yo here currently, but when hot I will look at trying the drink you mentioned. 🙂

    Cheers for stopping by and leaving a reply. 🙂

    Best Regards

    Andrew

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