Sweet Tea
From meskarune 15 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Sweet tea is a popular drink in the south. Its served everywhere, from fast food places like McDonald's to Cook-outs. You can't go to a house down here without finding a jug of Sweet Tea in the fridge. But what's so special about it you ask? Read more Isn't sweet tea the same as ice tea with some sugar? No. Its not. And there are 2 reasons why. First, the ingredients and secondly, how its made. See less
Ingredients
- 2 family size bags of orange pekoe tea, or 6 regular tea bags shopping list
- 2-3 cups of real sugar (any other sweetener gives it a strange taste), shopping list
- Dash of baking soda (cuts out the sourness of the strong tea brew) shopping list
- Gallon of spring water (water with high amounts of chlorine makes a bad tea) shopping list
How to make it
- Boil 4 cups of water
- Add 2 big tea bags of pekoe tea (most people use luzianne tea, a tea who's soul purpose is to make sweet tea)
- Let it steep for a good 12 minutes.
- Add 2 cups of sugar and a dash of baking soda and dissolve it into the tea. (The baking soda cuts out the bitterness of the strongly brewed tea)
- Pour the tea into a jug, I use old juice jugs but pitchers work too. Add water to the tea to fill it up the rest of the way.
- Refrigerate the tea and when its ready to be served filled a glass up with ice and then add the tea. Garnish with a lemon.
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