It's Iced Tea Time !

[blackhawknj]

Yes, it's that time of the year, so let's see those recipes. Mine is probably pretty basic, I am a tea drinker, so it's just a variation on a theme.
Bring one quart of water to a boil, I have a 5 cup Revere ware sauce pot dedicated to iced tea making,4 tea bags, brew/steep for 5 minutes, let it cool down long enough to transfer to a container, let it chill. Lately I find I prefer lime to lemon, looking for some mint. 2 packets of Shoprite brand sugar substitute to take the edge off, I get enough processed sugar as is.
Mentioned to a neighbor that if I am biking or hiking if I see a half full water bottle I police it up, she gave me a look, I explained I bring it home, put it in the tea kettle, bring it to a boil....

 

[Bob Wright]

My Mama made Southern sweet tea, the kind about the consistancy of sorghum molasses. You could just barely see through a glass of it. My brother loved it, and sorely missed sweet tea during WW II when he was in England. The English tea was very thin and weak, and they added milk to it.

I've tried green tea, jasamine tea, and whatever Northwest Orient Airlines used to serve on their flights.

Still a coffee drinker, myself.

Bob Wright

 

[JFB]

I just sit down at frequented resturant and waitress brings me a glass, FULL with crushed iced.
(In about an hour and half )

 

[coach]

Couldn’t be simpler. Boil some water, half fill the ice tea pitcher, throw in 5 or 6 tea bags, let it steep 5 minutes or so, add 1/2 cup sugar then water and ice cubes to top off the pitcher. My father drank it all year long, but we just make it in the summer. Lemon or plain is good for me. No peppermint please.

 

[Kevin]

I remember my mom used to make sun tea. Just cold water and tea bags in the sun all day. Clear Glass pitcher.

She had a mint bush out back. But I can’t stand anything mint flavored.

Lemon is good. Lime sounds interesting. I might give that a try.

 

[RoninPA]

The wife and I drink iced tea all year round. In the spring/summer/fall we fill up three one gallon+ jars (think industrial size pickle jar) with cold water. Two jars each get six regular black tea bags (Lipton, Tetley, etc) the other gets 6 green tea bags (normally Bigelow), then set them outside in the sun for 4 to 8 hours depending on how sunny it is. Three jars lasts us about 5 days.

In the winter, we do the same thing but just put them on the counter and let them sit for a day and they are ready.

Sometimes we'll go to the natural foods store and get dried hibiscus flowers and tie a handful in cheese cloth and put that in the jar. It's a red tea with a different but good taste (I got started on that when I was stationed in Egypt, they drink a lot of it).

I drink mine sweet (Splenda or Stevia) because of being diabetic (but I do splurge at times and have some good sweet tea). The wife drinks her's straight (like her decaf coffee).

 

[magnum711]

I like 5 Lipton black and 2 Earl grey tea bags cut open and dumped into a coffee filter. 10 cups cold tap water and 3/4 cup of sugar in the carafe. Half way through the brew stir the sugar up to dissolve. When it's done brewing, I pour it over a gallon pitcher full of ice. Stir it up some to cool the tea and dilute the brew a pinch. I use a dedicated "coffee" pot for tea. Cross contamination on either count is not pleasant.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

Sun tea, probably pretty close to what Kevin's Mom made. NO sugar. That's why God invented the long handed tea spoon. Everybody I know who likes sugar in their tea puts their "own custom amount' in and life is good.

Wanna talk about "immigrants bringing their own ways" with them, the migration to AZ must include a Southerner or two: we were in Yuma last Labor Day for the opening of dove season, and a couple of places where we ordered iced tea asked if we wanted "sweet or regular." Look out, Zonies: they're gonna get ya!

Rick C

 

[reloader]

Just add Tea & water, and Mr. Tea does the rest!
-- Fr. Guido Sarducci

 

[protoolman]

Yes, it's that time of the year, so let's see those recipes. Mine is probably pretty basic, I am a tea drinker, so it's just a variation on a theme.
Bring one quart of water to a boil, I have a 5 cup Revere ware sauce pot dedicated to iced tea making,4 tea bags, brew/steep for 5 minutes, let it cool down long enough to transfer to a container, let it chill. Lately I find I prefer lime to lemon, looking for some mint. 2 packets of Shoprite brand sugar substitute to take the edge off, I get enough processed sugar as is.
Mentioned to a neighbor that if I am biking or hiking if I see a half full water bottle I police it up, she gave me a look, I explained I bring it home, put it in the tea kettle, bring it to a boil....

Be careful recycling those half full water bottles. The ones some truckers throw out aren't water! Just saying....... That tea might taste funny.

 

[eveled]

Yes that’s just nasty. Spit, food particles, urine, no telling what’s in those.

 

[blackhawknj]

Good point, I'll start just pouring them on the ground.

 

[coach]

Ice tea is meant to be sweet. I hate trying to get sugar to dissolve in cold tea with ice in it. If you don’t like sugar fine, just don’t pretend it’s ice tea without it. :wink:

 

[A.J.]

I drink about a gallon of iced tea at work every day. I brew loose tea using a fancy gold metal/plastic strainer. I've had it for about 15 years.

 

[jimd441]

My wife insists that I use her "Mr Coffee Iced tea maker". It makes about a half gallon which I go through in a day. I use one of the huge Lipton iced tea bags and two tea bags of Bigelow green tea with pomegranate. I add half a lemon or lime when done. Since I have been working from home due to Covid 19, making a pitcher has become a daily ritual.

Jim

 

[Mobuck]

I buy "Best Darn Tea" at Menards and limit intake to a couple of glasses per day. I normally don't like sweat tea but it sure goes down nice when I'm hot and tired. Perks me up a little so I don't fall asleep in my supper plate.
Grouch Attack decided she doesn't want to make tea anymore and I don't take the time so I try to make a gallon of tea last a week.

 

[Acorn]

Sitting here on the front porch drinking a glass as I type. My wife keeps 3 pitchers in the fridge. All black tea. I drink it unsweetened being diabetic. Every so ofter I cheat and add real sugar. We use Splenda as a substitute but it’s just not the same.

 

[ndcowboy]

I loved sweet tea for a long time. Then kidney stones. Haven't had a glass since I had a surgery to remove a 9mm sized kidney stone that was making life more than just miserable.