Wild Blackberry and Lemon Tea (Gluten Free)

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This Wild Blackberry and Lemon Tea came about the other day as my granddaughter wanted to make a recipe! The tea is delicious hot. I think it would also be lovely served over ice. With very few ingredients, it’s easy to make, as well.

You can even choose to use frozen berries or store bought berries if you want. We had picked some wild blackberries a few days ago from a neighborhood berry patch, which gave us the idea to make this wild blackberry and lemon tea!

Our nine year old granddaughter was over and she wanted to make a concoction with sand, acorns, and a few other things out of a book she has. Since it’s currently the wrong season for acorns, we couldn’t find enough for her “recipe”. The book we were using is really cute. It has lots of recipes, but they are just for pretend play, not for actual eating or drinking.

Making a drinkable tea with edible flowers and berries

So instead, we decided to make something edible (or drinkable, in this case). From ingredients we had at our fingertips, we started our creativity. We picked just a few wild berries. Had an incident with a bee, and dropped a few. Most of the wild blackberries by our house aren’t ripe yet.

So we supplemented the ones we had left with some Trader Joe’s Organic Raspberries, which were frozen. Then some wild blackberries which were frozen also gave us enough for our recipe in this Wild Blackberry and Lemon Tea.

What’s in the garden

We’ve been enjoying using edible flowers lately, either for decorating or for eating in salads or on desserts.

My garden is currently lacking in edible flowers. We have lavender, roses, fuchsia, daisies, pansies, and snapdragon flowers. Basil flowers and some herb flowers for just a few more edible flowers.

We didn’t want to use lavender because of the rather strong taste, so we tried a tiny bit of fuchsia and Shasta daisy. The daisies didn’t have a ton of flavor. Both the berry and the fuchsia flower are edible. So we tasted a bit of each and decided the flavor is lightly sweet with a touch of lemon.

Both the berry and the fuchsia flower are edible. So we tasted a bit of each and decided the flavor is lightly sweet with a touch of lemon.

More on edible flowers

If you don’t have any organic edible flowers growing in your garden you can find them at some stores or even farmer’s markets. I use Jacob Farms Organic Edible Flowers often. I often find these at Whole Foods.

Always be careful when using edible flowers as some people may be sensitive to them. Check your flower varieties very carefully before using. Many flower species have flowers which look similar, some which are edible and some which are not edible or are even toxic.

Always rinse the flowers gently before using. Use pesticide free flowers.

Foraging wild berries

We love berry collecting from neighborhood berry patches! Using our finds to make berry galettes or Wild Blackberry Ice Cream.

But if you don’t have access to wild berries you can use any frozen or fresh berries you like in this recipe for our Wild Blackberry and Lemon Tea.

This tea was so delicious and fun to make for both of us. Then we sat and had our tea together. Maddie generally doesn’t like tea, but she enjoyed this berry tea very much!

Maddie and I hope you enjoy it too!

~Maddie and Laura