Make your own Liquid Stevia

Make your own stevia sweetener to add by the drop. This is a simple way to have all the sweetener you will ever need.

1. Place one teaspoon of stevia powder in coffee filter
2. Place coffee filter into heat proof coffee mug.
3. Pour boiled water over stevia powder.
4. Allow to steep for 5 minutes.
5. Remove coffee filter containing stevia powder.
6. Allow sweet liquid to cool.
7. Place in bottle with a dropper.
8. Use by the drop, stevia is extremely sweet.
9. Make more every week.

Tips:

1. Do not squeeze filter to remove every bit of water. This adds bitterness.
2. Steeping for a longer time may add a bitter aftertaste.
3. Stevia should be used by the drop. Taste after each drop to not over do it. 

What You Need

• Powdered stevia leaves
• Unbleached coffee filter
• Coffee mug
• Boiling hot water
• Dropper bottle
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• 1. Harvest your stevia plant by cutting off the branches at the base of the plant.
  2. Wash the branches/leaves in clean filter water.
  3. Pick leaves off stevia plant, discard the stems, and dry the leaves for 12 hours in the sun.
  4. Once your leaves are dry, grind them in a food processor or coffee grinder to make pure stevia.  I find that a coffee grinder makes for the finest powder and works very nicely.
  5. Note ~ homegrown stevia powder is not as sweet as store bought stevia (300 times sweeter then sugar).  To cook with home grown stevia simply replace every 1 cup of sugar with 3-4 teaspoons of homegrown stevia.
  6. To make liquid stevia, dissolve 1/4 cup pure homegrown stevia powder with 1 cup hot filtered water.  Stir and leave out at room temperature for 24 hours.  After 24 hours strain the stevia out of the liquid and store the liquid stevia in the refrigerator.
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  How To Make Your Own Pure Stevia & Liquid Stevia ~ Part 2
  Ingredients
• Leaves from a stevia plant
• 1/4 cup pure homegrown stevia
• 1 cup hot filtered water

Instructions

1. Harvest your stevia plant by cutting off the branches at the base of the plant.
2. Wash the branches/leaves in clean filter water.
3. Pick leaves off stevia plant, discard the stems, and dry the leaves for 12 hours in the sun.
4. Once your leaves are dry, grind them in a food processor or coffee grinder to make pure stevia. I find that a coffee grinder makes for the finest powder and works very nicely.
5. Note ~ homegrown stevia powder is not as sweet as store bought stevia (300 times sweeter then sugar). To cook with home grown stevia simply replace every 1 cup of sugar with 3-4 teaspoons of homegrown stevia.
6. To make liquid stevia, dissolve 1/4 cup pure homegrown stevia powder with 1 cup hot filtered water. Stir and leave out at room temperature for 24 hours. After 24 hours strain the stevia out of the liquid and store the liquid stevia in the refrigerator.

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