Russian Tea
From lacrenshaw 15 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 35
From Cabbage Patch Kentucky Recipes, this was contributed by Mrs. Edmund T. Meriwether. Time consuming way to make tea, if you ask me..
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon cloves shopping list
- 1 teaspoon allspice shopping list
- 5 sticks cinnamon shopping list
- Put in chesecloth bag. shopping list
- 2 cups lemon juice shopping list
- 2 cups orange juice shopping list
- 3 cups sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Put one gallon of water on to boil.
- Add spices in cheesecloth bag
- Let simmer in the water 1 1/2 hours.
- Put one cup tea leaves in a cheesecloth bag.
- Let stand until strong in the water with spices.
- Cool.
- Add lemon juice, orange juice and sugar.
- Serve hot or cold.
People Who Like This Dish 2
- grk Houston, TX
- petula Philadelphia, PA
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I love this drink and think it's no work at all! (btw, you may want to put '1 gal. water' and '1 cup tea leaves' under ingredients). Thanks, 5 forks! -petula
petula
in Philadelphia loved it
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Well, I can assure you Russians don't make their tea this way. They do like tea and drink it a lot, but they mostly use the ready black tea. Sometimes from scratch they make lemon tea, peppermint tea (from dry peppermint), chamomile tea (from chamomi...more
juels
in Clayton loved it
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Time consuming, yes. but different!! :+D
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