Hey Southerners! Sweet Tea Recipe Please!

[DuckLady]

THANK you!!!!
I have sweet tea cooling in the fridge now.
Ahh, anticipation......

 

[joanm]

I add orange slices to my tea. Yum Yum

 

[cookinmom]

This is how we do ours:
For 2 qts, I put 3 fam size bags in a small pan of water. Bring to a boil then shut off (don't boil the bags; they're fragile). Steep five minutes, pour into a pitcher, squeezing out all the good stuff. Add 1/2 cup sugar and stir till dissolved, then add cold water.

If I'm making a gallon and have time, I make sun tea. Put 6 fam size bags (with the strings tied together and the tags hanging out of the jar) into the glass gallon jar. Fill with water, put the lid on and sit out on the porch. Bring it in before supper, squeeze out the tea bags, add 1 C sugar and stir until dissolved.

I only use Luzianne or store brand, usually decaf so I can drink it at night if I want. To me, Lipton tastes like burnt wood. JMO

I know what you mean Terrielacy. When we went out to Denver at Christmas once, we about died. Nobody knew what tea was. They always wanted to bring us hot tea! Then unsweet, which does not work! I drink unsweet when we go out, but at home I like it sweet.

 

[rooster-red]

It's a secret.

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

 

[DuckLady]

I used Earl Grey. That is my favorite tea.

Too late Rooster Red! Yesterday I woulda let you kill me if only for ONE glass, but now I know the secret! LOL

 

[cookinmom]

Something my aunt made for a scrapbook workshop was mint tea. She used 6 of the Bigelow plantation mint bags for 2 qt of tea, same sugar as regular. On ice, that stuff was so good, she had to keep making more! It was great.

 

[rooster-red]

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Rats!

Well, the cats out of the bag now!

Enjoy.

 

[rooster-red]

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My grandmother used to make it, but she had mint growing in the yard. Can't get any fresher than that.

 

[cookinmom]

I tried it with mint from the yard, but I think I had the wrong kind of mint. Mine is spearmint, not peppermint, so it tasted kind of .... mmmm... green. Not like mint, almost like grass or something. It wasn't bad, just kind of weird.

 

[Standard Hen]

I would love to try this "sweet tea" that I have heard so much about over the years. But I have one stupid question, what are family size tea bags?