Rooibos Tea Ink Recipe
from Jason Logan [The Make Ink Guy]'s workshop handout.
1 tsp loose Rooibos Tea (or 1 teabag)
1 Tablespoon of boiling water
Steep for 20 minutes.
Filter the tea and add a pinch of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and boil the tea for a few minutes.
This is the tea when I first put it on to boil. I had just added the baking soda ...
Here it is after simmering for 3-4 minutes. The color is darker as it reduced in the pan, as would be expected. Not sure if the baking soda deepened / changed the color or not?
The residue left in the pan.
To thicken it, add a bit of powdered gum arabic.
To preserve this ink, add 1/2 tsp vinegar and a pinch of salt.
This amount fit nicely in a Penzy's spice jar. Could have made a double batch!
It's a different red than the avocado ink from a few weeks ago.
I bought a fancy feather pen that makes it much easier to write with these inks.
The crappy old calligraphy set I had was not ideal.
Rooibos Tea Ink on an old Library catalog card.
That's what I have on hand -- My day job is a Medical Librarian. We just don't use these old catalog cards anymore, so now they've taken on a new life in mixed media!
2 comments:
Oooo, there's an idea. I don't particularly care for the taste of this kind of tea but have some around I could experiment with. Simple enough to make apparently!
I'm looking more closely at the recipe and wondering if the amount of boiling water is right. I can't make sense of a single tbsp of water making the amount you are showing, even with the addition of the vinegar.
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