What would be the word for putting tea into jars? Decanting has to do with liquid and not disturbing the sediment. Pouring also sounds liquidy and too plain a term for what I was doing: tea is fragrant and special, not like, say, sand or lima beans or molasses which can be poured with no further distinction.
I was – putting – tea into old sealer jars, jars with much history of being used for canning, and thus the wonder at a word.
Actually it wasn’t tea, as such, but chamomile blossoms and shaved licorice root I was – introducing – to the jars, but I make tea from them.
Then, as the scent of the chamomile and the fragrance of the licorice danced up my nose I wondered what a tea made from a combination would be like.
Well! A spoonful of each into the tea basket that hangs so niftily down into a cup or a teapot, some boiling water, a pleasant wait while it steeped/brewed/infused. The combination of soothing chamomile and perky licorice was delicious.