Wheat tea

Wheat tea method:

Raw materials for making wheat tea:

Wheat rice, salt and seasoning are appropriate.

Wheat tea production steps:

1. Wash the wheat grains, and then put them into the pot to bake the semicoke. Remove them into and out of the mortar and mash them until ready to use.

2. Take a pottery pot, put in the right amount of wheat flour, salt and other ingredients, add the right amount of water, and then boil.

Characteristics of wheat tea:

The taste is strong like coffee and delicious. It is the tea drinking custom of some ethnic minorities in Qinghai, Gansu and other provinces.

Barley tea

synonym

Wheat tea generally refers to barley tea

This entry is compiled and applied by "popular science China" Science Encyclopedia

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Barley tea is a traditional cool drink widely spread among the people in China, Japan, South Korea and other places. Stir fry barley to make it scorched yellow. Before eating, you only need to brew it with hot water to extract rich fragrant tea. Barley tea is made by frying barley and then boiling it. It has a strong smell of wheat. Drinking barley tea can appetizer, help digestion and reduce weight.

brief introduction

Barley tea is a kind of traditional cool and full-bodied fragrant tea widely spread in China, Japan and Korea. It is also called wheat tea and wheat soup. It is a drink made by baking barley and grinding it into powder. It retains some of the original nutrients in barley, such as carbohydrates, plant protein, B vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids and so on. It has the effects of relieving heat, stopping thirst, helping digestion, reducing weight and strengthening blood vessels. It is a new beverage with unique taste and health function.

China

Wheat tea is not a rare thing in China, especially in the north. Barley is abundant in the north of China, and wheat tea is produced from local materials. In the eastern agricultural area of Qinghai Province, barley is the main crop in the field. Therefore, local materials are used. The roasted barley grains are pressed and ground into wheat dregs and then boiled into wheat tea. The tea soup is dark brown and smells like coffee tea.

Japan

It is said that in the era of Japanese Taoshan culture in 1587, the national unification of Toyotomi Hideki was completed. At the same time, the Japanese tea ceremony was also completed, and the famous Kitano tea ceremony was founded. At that time, most of the participants presented tea, and some of them used fried rice and wheat instead. As a result, wheat tea, xuanmi tea and other teas fried with grain were born.

the republic of korea

In the history of Korean Peninsula, it belongs to farming civilization and has many mountains. Geographically, due to the climate and local conditions suitable for the development of agriculture, coarse cereals were planted as early as after the Neolithic age, and then rice planting was popularized. Since then, grain has become the center of Korean food culture, and gradually developed. Due to the geographical location and climate of South Korea, its diet has very distinctive characteristics. Although most of its cooking is barbecue, its taste is very popular with South Korean people. In order to achieve the purpose of appetizing and removing greasiness, barley tea, which is widely made from simple materials and has unique flavor, occupies the beverage position on the Korean cuisine table.

Development

With the continuous improvement of living standards, people drink tea from the original single tea, a variety of complex drinks, from the original thirst to the characteristics of health care and beauty, from the demand for good taste and good drink to the combination of beauty, color and appreciation. People's requirements for tea are gradually upgraded.

So how to choose a suitable tea drink? First of all, we should understand the basic raw materials of these fashionable teas and the benefits of the quality of these raw materials to the human body, and then choose the fashionable tea we need according to our own situation, which is the best.

In Korean restaurants, barley tea is the same free tea as barbecue. Chang ZhangFu, Professor of Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine, said that barley is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It has the effects of removing food and treating distension, calming stomach and relieving thirst, tonifying qi and regulating middle energizer, strengthening blood vessels, strengthening five zang organs and transforming grain and food.

Self made method

Raw material formula

Barley powder 7kg, tea powder 3kg, natural flavor 100g, beef Bone Powder 50g.

Production method

1. Clean and remove stones: it is better to wash the barley first, remove the impurities, stones and sand, and then dry or sun dry.

2. Baking: in the factory, it is baked with a baking machine. In the family, it can be stir fried in a clean pot with a slow fire until the skin is burnt yellow. When baking, it must be uniform, with appropriate force, so that the moisture in barley grains evaporates evenly and gradually, and can be crushed.

3. Comminution: the comminution here includes the comminution of barley and tea. That is to say, barley grains and tea should be pressed into powder by mortar or other methods.

4. Sieving: sift out the epidermis of barley flour with coarse sieve.

5. Mixing: mix barley powder and tea powder in proportion. Note that pesticide residues in barley and tea must be limited to the minimum allowable range.

6. Ingredients: generally, natural flavor and beef bone powder are added into the mixed flour of wheat and tea. Cattle bone should be crushed with hammer (hammer mill used in factory) and sieved into 300-500 mesh powder before mixed use.

7. Re screening: it's better to screen again to ensure the quality of drinking.

8. Packing: the finished product is packed after screening.

matters needing attention

Wash the barley and dry it in a sieve. Put a layer of gauze on it to prevent dust when drying. After drying, you can fry it. When frying, pay attention to the heat, not too hot pot to small fire. Make sure you have a small fire. The fire is burning. The skin on the outside is burnt. The inside is not ready.

Quality identification

There are two kinds of stir frying, light fried and heavy fried. The taste of clear fried is light, while the taste of heavy fried is mellow.

Drinking method

1. About 2 liters of water, boiling, put in a packet of barley tea, and then boil about 5-10 minutes to drink

2. If you don't want to cook it, you can soak it in boiling water for 15 minutes. It's delicious. You can use foam in the office.

3. If you don't want to drink hot in summer, put the barley tea in the refrigerator. It will be a good summer drink. Attention, ice barley tea don't drink, because ice barley tea conditioning gastrointestinal function is very strong, unless constipation, otherwise appropriate ah.

Special value and beauty effect

Function and efficacy

According to the compendium of Materia Medica, "barley is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It has the functions of removing food and treating distension, eliminating accumulation and eating, calming stomach and relieving thirst, eliminating heat and heat, tonifying qi and regulating the middle, broadening chest and atmosphere, tonifying deficiency and bad, strengthening blood vessels, benefiting color, strengthening five internal organs, and transforming grain and food. It can be used to treat the pain of urination, to treat the eyesight of maimang, to treat the old people's restlessness and thirst, to drink water indefinitely, to dry and scorch the tongue, to treat the water and gas disease, to clear away the summer heat in summer, to treat the acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis and pharyngeal abscess. Barley flour can be eaten, barley can also be made into beer to help digestion, soothe liver and Qi, and help regulate gastrointestinal function.

 

Barley tea is mainly used for eliminating temperature and detoxification, strengthening spleen and slimming, clearing heat and relieving summer heat, removing fishy smell and greasy, helping digestion, moistening dark hair. Barley tea can also be used for:

(1) Excessive diet, chest tightness, abdominal distension, fried black grinding clothes, have the function of inflammation and distension, regulating the antidiarrhea.

(2) Children with food accumulation, sallow complexion and thin muscles, old and weak people, eat less and lack of energy, take barley and sugar, replenish qi and strengthen stomach.

(3) Peptic ulcer, with barley as staple food, can level stomach qi, stop dull pain.

(4) Heat and thirst, barley water tea, Qingshu Shengjin, in addition to trouble and thirst

Special value

According to a study, wheat tea contains specific substances that can inhibit cancer, which has a certain preventive effect on cancer. The specific anticancer substances contained in barley tea are p-coumaric acid contained in legumes and quercetin widely used in medicine. Quercetin is mainly used as a antihypertensive drug. Scientists believe that some bad living habits, such as smoking, overeating and overwork, may increase reactive oxygen species in the body and cause diseases including cancer. Reactive oxygen species exist in human body, and one electron in its molecule is in discrete and unstable state. The "restless" reactive oxygen species will take away the electrons of fatty acids existing in the cell membrane, leading to a series of rapid chain reactions, leading to a variety of diseases. The antioxidant effect of wheat tea can eliminate the excess reactive oxygen species. In the past, people drank wheat tea mainly to prevent cancer, stroke, myocardial infarction, diabetes and so on. However, it has not been found before which substance in wheat tea can eliminate reactive oxygen species.

Beauty function

1. Whitening the whole body. If you have a bathtub at home, you can put the tea bag into the bathtub or pour the tea directly into the bathtub. You can drop some essential oil, such as rose, lavender, etc. according to your personal needs to make a whole body whitening spa.

2. Overnight barley tea is used to brush eyebrows, which will become thick.

3, with warm fresh barley tea to wash the face, can also achieve the effect of whitening.

Other uses

When it comes to the benefits of barley, we are most familiar with the fact that barley can reduce blood lipids and cholesterol. In fact, barley is also a good food for reducing summer heat in sultry summer. Its effect is similar to that of mung bean porridge. But its health care function is more comprehensive than mung bean. In addition to relieving heat, it can also protect the stomach, strengthen the spleen, diuresis, help digestion and treat coronary heart disease