Raspberry Iced Tea with Frozen Fruit Swizzle Sticks
From tinam 17 years ago
- 180 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Try one made with sweet, ripe raspberries. The frozen fruit on skewers helps keep the iced tea cold without diluting it, plus the "shish kebob" delivers a tasty treat.
Ingredients
- Makes 8 cups (one quart) of tea and 8 swizzle sticks shopping list
- 4 cups boiling water shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons sugar shopping list
- 8 bags raspberry black tea shopping list
- Two 3-by-1/2-inch pieces lemon peel shopping list
- 1 cinnamon stick shopping list
- 4 cored pineapple rings, sliced 1/2 inch thick, cut into 6 pieces, or canned pineapple rings packed in water or their own juice, 24 pieces total shopping list
- 16 fresh raspberries shopping list
- 4 cups water, ice cold shopping list
- Optional shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons sugar, for sweeter tea shopping list
- 1/4 cup fresh mint or lemon balm leaves for garnish shopping list
How to make it
- Add sugar to 4 cups of boiling water in a saucepot and stir until dissolved.
- Place tea bags, lemon peel and cinnamon stick in a 4-cup glass measuring cup and carefully add the hot water with dissolved sugar from Step 1. Cover the measuring cup loosely with Saran™ Premium Wrap and let tea steep for 7-10 minutes. Uncover, remove the tea bags and let the beverage cool completely. Once cooled, remove the lemon peel and cinnamon stick and refrigerate tea until ready to use.
- While tea is steeping, spear 3 pieces of pineapple on each skewer, alternating with 2 raspberries (see photo). Wrap skewers in Saran™ Premium Wrap, arrange them on a cookie sheet and place in the freezer until frozen, at least 3 hours. Or freeze the swizzle sticks inside a Ziploc® Brand Double Guard® Freezer Bag with the Double Zipper Seal.
- When ready to serve, mix the chilled iced-tea mixture with 4 cups of ice-cold water in a 2-quart pitcher. Add the frozen swizzle sticks to glasses immediately before serving.
- Chef's Note: How to get 4 cups of instant ice-cold water fast? Add ice cubes to 2 cups cold water until the water level measures 4 cups. For a different taste, freeze melon balls on your skewers.
- Recipe from cleanhomejournal.com
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choclytcandy
in Dallas loved it
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a great summer drink....and I love rasperries.
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yum i love it
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