Ojibwa Food
Ojibwa Tea
For the Ojibwa tea was the favoured drink, served any time there was a fire available to heat water.
Here's a picture of my mother and her friend having a nice cup of tea and sharing the gossip.
The tea leaves weren't purchased in a store, then hauled miles and miles through the bush to our camps. Ojibwa tea was locally grown...very locally grown. The grand tea estates in India and China made no money from us, by golly.
Ojibwa tea was made from leaves and roots that were often harvested at the very oment that the notion of a 'nice cuppa tea' flitted into consciousness.
It was as easy as reaching over and grabbing a handful of spruce needles just as the water came to a boil, or snatching at the ferns growing near the stream, or saving some of the leaves when you were picking raspberries, or...,or..., or...!
