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----- Original Message -----
From: Hanna Meier <hannameier@socialinsight.ch>
To: <OliveOil@onelist.com>
Sent: Saturday, 24 July 1999 00:24
Subject: [OliveOil] olive leaf tea


> I wonder how you prepare the tea, do you boil the leaves together with the
> water, for how long, and how many leaves do you take for one cup? What
does
> the tea taste like? Does it have a good taste or is it mainly healthy?

We simmer 250 grams of fresh olive leaves in 4 litres of water for 2 hours.
We then keep this in the refrigerator as a stock. We prepare a drink by
diluting the stock 50:50. It tastes very bitter, but if you have the flu or
some other virus etc., you wont be too concerned about taste. We drink a cup
every day as a preventive. For a single cup as an experiment, I would guess
5 or so leaves steeped for quite some time would give a reasonable
approximation.

regards,
Kim
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