Please Help Me Make This Tea

[Anastasia13]

I want to try something like this: http://aimeeshealthyliving.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/how-to-make-the-perfect-cuppa-cinnamon-ginger-tea/

 

But I need a way to strain cinnamon and ginger powder from the water.

 

Thanks.

[Basilisa Marie]

You don't have a tea strainer? Or any strainers in your kitchen? 

 

Fine. 

 

Clean pantyhose. 

[AnneLine]

I have an idea for you LandT (My computer is being difficult and won't do the ampersand...:rolleyes:)

 

I was going to suggest a coffee filter, but if all you have is finely powdered ginger and cinnamon, it will probably just get stuck.  And I would suspect the mesh in a strainer might be too wide, and you'd end up with sludge.   But what MIGHT work is using the strainer (or a paper towel) and then run it a second time through the coffee filter.... or slip a bit of folded paper towel under the surface of your brewed coffee to skim/lift off the floating spices (kind of the way one skims fat off a soup.

 

Don't know if either of those will help....

[Eowyn]

Coffee filter lining a mesh strainer might work.

[Eowyn]

Coffee fiddler lining a mesh strainer might work.

 

 

How about a coffe fil.ter lining a mesh strainer.  Won't let me edit

Edited November 22, 2013 by Eowyn

[AnneLine]

EOWYN, I think your idea is best of all, AND you beat out our f I l t e r e d   f i l t e r   problem, too!   CREATIVE!

[Anastasia13]

Thanks guys. Sounds like I have solution now. :)

[Gabriela]

Cheesecloth also works. Though you're surely more likely to have a coffee fil.ter lying around.

 

They sell little cheesecloth sachets that you can fill with spices and simply drop into a pot of boiling water. If you plan on making this often, that might be most convenient.