Tea for...Ewww....

  My Mom and Dusty have a huge mint patch in their garden, so one day Peyton and I decided we should try to make some homemade mint tea. We picked a bunch and washed it up. 

    

    Then we picked the leaves from the stem and put them in a regular coffee filter.

     We tied it up with dental floss.

    Popped it in a cup..

     And used our single serve coffee pot to get hot water.

     We let it steep for about 10 minutes..

 
  And it was gross. Even after adding a liberal amount of honey it really had no flavor. I thought maybe the leaves have to be dry first so I took the leaves we had left and put them on a cookie sheet on the deck where the hot sun would hit them.  The strong wind also hit them, and when I went to check on them all but a few had dried up and blown away. This experiment was pretty much an epic fail all the way around. I'm going to try to make homemade mint extract at some point, hopefully with better success!!