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Baked tea is great during cold winter months as well as an iced refreshment on hot days. Treat your loved ones to an original and delicious gift!
In short: Baked tea is fruit baked with sugar and spices and sealed hot in jars. Use about 1 kg of sugar per 2 kg of fruit, add cinnamon, cloves or star anise and bake at 200 °C for 30–45 minutes until the fruit releases juice. Serve it hot in winter or over iced water in summer.
| Sugar per 2 kg of fruit | about 1 kg (0.5–1.5 kg to taste) |
|---|---|
| Acidic fruit share | about half of the fruit weight |
| Lemons per 2 kg of fruit | 1–2 |
| Baking | 200 °C for 30–45 minutes |
| Optional rum | 1–2 dl, added after baking |
You may know baked tea from shops labeled as "grandma's fruit tea." However, nothing compares to a homemade, purely natural product. And its preparation isn't difficult at all!
Baked tea is a fruit delicacy in both summer and winter. In cold months, we prepare it as a hot spiced fruit tea for warming up, while in summer we pour it over cold water with ice cubes for a refreshing drink.
Baked tea is purely natural, just fruit and sugar, so you don't need to worry about any preservatives, colorings, or artificial sweeteners.
We can use many different types of fruit and combine them according to taste. Looking for an original gift for a birthday or under the Christmas tree?
A set of jars with homemade baked tea decorated with a nice label, or with a piece of fabric over the lid, looks wonderful and will delight any homemaker. A jar also makes a lovely small gift when visiting.
Recipe for Preparation
To prepare baked tea, we need fruit, spices, and sugar. Fresh fruit is best, but we can also use frozen.
For the tea to have an intense, balanced flavor, about half the weight of the fruit should consist of more acidic varieties, such as currants - red currants also give the infusion a beautiful red-brown color
We can use practically all types of fruit including citrus for tea preparation; bananas are unsuitable for baking.
Wash the fruit, use smaller varieties (currants, etc.) whole, while larger ones should be pitted and peeled if necessary, and cut into smaller pieces. Apples and pears don't need to be peeled.
We can use lemons (especially if we have predominantly sweet fruit and lack acidic taste) - use 1-2 lemons per 2 kg of fruit, or additionally lemon juice or limes.
Lemons can be peeled or used with the peel - the peel gives the tea a piquant, slightly bitter taste.
Cut the lemons into cubes and add them to the mixture.
We need about 1 kg of sugar per 2 kg of fruit. If you prefer sweeter tea and the fruit is very acidic, you can use up to 1.5 kg. Conversely, if you sweeten less or want to give everyone a choice, you can reduce the sugar amount to 0.5 kg.
If we want to use lemons with peel, it's necessary to buy chemically untreated fruits (organic quality) or soak and scrub them in warm water for a long time
We use classic "Christmas" spices - cinnamon, cloves, star anise, anise, and similar. Whole pieces of spices left in the jars look nice - star anise stars and cinnamon sticks; however, we also use some ground spices for better flavoring.
Mix the mixture well and spread it on a deep baking tray. Bake in the oven at 200 °C for approximately 30-45 minutes until the fruit releases juice, stirring occasionally.
We can also flavor the tea with rum - in winter, tea with rum will certainly come in handy. In this case, we add 1-2 dl of rum after taking it out of the oven, before the mixture cools down. If you want rum only in some jars, pour a teaspoon of alcohol into each of them and fill with the fruit mixture.
After taking it out of the oven, we fill the hot mixture into clean jars, seal them and place them upside down.
If you want the jars to look nice as a gift, cut squares from fabric (checkered or plain fabric looks good, artificial materials are not suitable) and tie them over the lid with natural twine or secure with elastic bands.
It's also advisable to make labels for the jars - neither you nor the potential recipient will forget what's actually inside.
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Written by Eliška Kadlecová