I've previously been introduced to the pleasure of drinking Chimarrão the Brazilian Erva Mate (Yerba Mate). Chimarrão is a hot drink but summer is coming soon in Australia and I wanted a cold drink, that's how I discovered Tereré which is no more no less than cold Yerba Mate.
You drink Tereré in a Guampa, a cup, usually made of cattle horn but I will make mine from Bamboo. I know a friend who has giant bamboos in her backyard so I went there after work to harvest some.
Luckily, there were some already cut and dry laying on the ground. So I picked one that has a good diameter for a drinking cup and used a hatchet to clean the nodes and then used a battery powered jigsaw to cut some sections.
I also cut a section of larger diameter bamboos to make a Yerba Mate container (to store the actual powdered leaves).
Once home, I used the jigsaw to cut the cups to length and then used a sander to smoothen the edges.
I then poured some hot water in the bamboo and tested for any leaks. I then left the hot water for a little while and then used a new scrubbing pad to scrub off the thin flaky inside layer.
I finally got three guampas and one Yerba Mate container.
Previously on my blog:
- Sunday in the garden
- I completed the 100 day Iron Shirt Neigong training
- Restoring an old rusty Chimenea wood heater
- Fishing and making kombucha
- Making Mulberry Jam at home
- Discovering Chimarrão a caffeinated drink from Brazil
- Homemade Mulberry Syrup
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