Madrone Tea Eggs

What is a Madrone tree? A Madrone is actually an Arbutus tree. Which is it's genus name. 

Here is our tea....brewing. In China they take the tree's bark and steep it in boiling water.
Why do they do this? Well this a tradition in China and they actually put eggs in the tea.
Which makes the eggs a browny redish colour.

Another reason why we decide to make Madrone tea and do the eggs is because,
it is a traditional tea from British Columbia First Nations.
We also have been learning quite a bit about this..

 #1 the first step was to just boil the eggs for about 10 minutes.

#2  Then after the ten minutes we harvested the bark and put it in the water to steep. After about another 5 minutes we put the eggs in some cold water and waited another few minutes.

#3 After the cold water they were still warm but only warm to touch. So we cracked them and made different patterns. This was neat. You don't have to do that though. (fun and optional)

#4 Then we boiled them in the water for another 10 minutes.
Then again put them in cold water and crack open.
(One trick i like to use on boiled eggs is to roll them on a hard surface and then peel off the shell.)

Enjoy!