Sakura’s tea using salt pickled cherry blossoms

Hello!
Kinako here.

I heard that cherry blossom season is almost over even in Hokkaido now.
So I drank the last “Sakura tea” this year.

Sakura tea using salt pickled cherry blossoms

This is the “Sakura tea”.
I drank this with my mother.

We used Sakura patterned “Yunomi” (cup).

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By the way, can you imagine the taste of sakura tea?

This type of sakura tea is a bit salty because the sakura flower is pickled in salt.

What are salt-picked cherry blossoms for sakura tea?

These are the salt-pickled cherry blossoms.
I love this, and I brought it to the U.S. when I was living there.

To make sakura tea, you just need to put some cherry blossoms into a cup and pour hot water into it.

I love the taste of sakura and the salt so much.

You can buy salt-pickled cherry blossoms online!!

You can buy these salt-pickled cherry blossoms online!

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I always use this for Sakura tea, but you can use it for onigiri or dessert, too.

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2021.04.03