Iced Tea

TexasWolf

TexasWolf

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I need a cool iced tea recipe.
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Huh? Um, boil a quart of water then put a family sized tea bag in the water. Turn the heat off and let it steep for a while. The longer it steeps, the better the tea will be. I usually wait 45 minutes. Pour the tea into a 2 quart pitcher and fill the pitcher with water. If you like sweet tea, put a half-cup of sugar in the pitcher before pouring the tea in.

If you need a recipe for like raspberry mango tea or something like that, I can't help.
 
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Pour a shot of gin, a shot of tequila, a shot of vodka, and a shot of rum, over ice then add a splash of sweet and sour and fill with Coke. That's good, too.
 
get iced tea maker.
add ice, water, and teabags.
press the button.

sweet tea:
fill glass with ice and water. Add sugar.
Add brown food coloring to taste.
 
I make a couple of pots of iced tea a week.

I used to just fill my drip coffee maker with water like I was making coffee, but I've since bought a whistling tea kettle for the sake of purity. Either way, the basic method is the same.

In a 10-cup drip coffee carafe, put two family sized *decaf* tea bags, (usually Lipton or Luzianne). I also add two or three regular green tea bags, and then one or two of something else, (Oolong, jasmine, pu-ehr, etc, but never Earl Gray which I detest cold). I also have a couple of tea balls that I use to add loose leaf teas.

If using the drip coffee maker, just let it run like usual and be sure to turn it off as soon as it's through dripping. If using the kettle or a pot on the stove, bring to a boil, (or really just before), pour in the carafe over the tea, drop the lid and let steep for an hour or two.

This makes a really concentrated brew and I dilute it about 5 or 6 to 1 over ice with turbinado sugar. Keep the extra in a tightly closed container in the fridge.

And since it's only half caffienated AND has all-the-rage-antioxident-carrying green tea, it's actually pretty good for you if you don't use much, or skip altogether, sugar.




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If in Shreveport, go to Dominic's Italian on 70th (just a bit E of Line) & ask him for the recipe to his mother's tea. He'll probably look you up one side & down the other, then say "Cuz, you don't look like you've got ten million dollars in your pocked. You got ten million dollars in your pocket?"

Mama Lou's Spiced Tea... best ever.

You'll spend @ least 30 minutes looking over the personalized sports memorabilia he's got in there (grew up with Terry Bradshaw).

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The world's 2 best iced teas are the Rudy's sweet tea and Cheesecake Factory's passion fruit tea. Can't really make the Rudy's tea at home, but CF does sell their tea the last time I checked.
 
Why do people from San Antonio like sweet tea so much? I ordered iced tea some place there and got about a pound of sugar diluted with a little water and tea.
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Yes, I know about the South liking sweet tea, but its generally accepted that we Texans don't consider ourselves part of the South. Gastronomically, there are many differences.
And why only San Antonio? People in Houston, Dallas and Austin (except for Bill Miller's BBQ) don't have the affinity for sweet tea that is particular to San Antonio.
 
Bill's tea is always the first thing I drive thru to drink (along weith some Rudy's smoked turkey) when I get to SA
and the last thing I pick up on the way back to the hell that is Northwest Arkie (Bentonville, to be exact).

Miss me some Bill's tea. I remember when it was 54 cents for a quart of that goodness. Still can't have iced tea without lime.

Oh yeah, and I always ask for a "half and half" - the sweet is just too sweet.
 
I use Lipton's loose tea, because that's what I grew up on.

Put some water in a small pot, and right before it boils, add 2 tablespoons of loose tea. Cover and let stand for several hours.
Then pour the tea into a half-gallon pitcher with a paper towel on top that acts as a strainer. Then add sugar, anywhere from 1/4 to 2/3 cup, depending on how sweet you want it. Then add water and let it set in the fridge for a couple more hours.
 
I grew up on sweet tea.

I absolutely hate it now.
Sugar absolutely ruins the taste of the tea.

I have a 2 quart pitcher.
I fill up the old fashion tea kettle with water.
Put 4 of the large family size tea bags in the pitcher.
Add about 5 or 6 three inch fresh cinnamon sticks.
Pour the hot water over this.
You should let it steep until the water cools to room temperature. I think most people mess this up.
They want to dilute it and drink it right away.
You need to let it sit for a long time.

I then remove the tea bags and cinnamon.
Fill the pitcher the rest of the way with cold water and drink up.

Cinnamon tea is awsome.
No sugar needed.
 
first off, sweet tea is ***.

i bought one of those 2-3 quart iced tea makers because of how much i drink. i put in 3 family-size luzianne regular bags and 2 lipton mint decar bags. good stuff.
 
i like sweet tea. however, the best way to make it is by making a simple syrup first and adding it in like many of the "famous" sweet tea places do.

no granules, and the sugar will never re-settle.
 
I took a client and his flunky to lunch one time years ago, and the flunky ordered an iced tea to drink. After the boss ordered a dark beer, the flunky changed his order to a dark beer.

The flunky evidently forgot he changed his drink order, because the first thing he does is dump 3 packets of sugar into his beer, making it erupt like a science fair volcano gone horribly wrong.

The funniest part is that the flunky had a stuttering problem that surfaced at that moment. It took everything I had to not split a gut laughing.

Iced tea is bad for your career.
 
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