How To Make Sweetened Iced Tea
October 11, 2009 by Dexie Wharton
Filed under Recipes
There are iced tea powder mixes that you could just add water and store in the fridge to make iced tea. But I don’t use those in our house. I go for a more traditional way, if that’s how you call it, using actual tea bags.
Here’s How To Make Sweetened Iced Tea.
Sweetened Iced Tea (Image © Dexie J Wharton)
INGREDIENTS :
8 cups of water
more water, about 12-15 cups
8 tea bags, take the paper out
1 cup of sugar or sweetener that has no sugar yet tastes like sugar
In a pot, boil 8 cups of water. Once boiled turn it off. Put the 8 tea bags into the boiled water. Let the thread hang outside the pot. Just let the tea bags submerged in water for about 30 minutes or so.
Put sugar in 1-galloon pitcher, pour the boiled tea into the pitcher as well. Make sure to hold onto the tea bags. You don’t want them in the pitcher.
With the same pot and the tea bags, put 6 cups of water into the pot. Squeeze the tea bags gently. Pour that into the pitcher. Add another 6 cups of water, squeeze the tea bags one last time, then add that into the pitcher. Discard the tea bags. Mix everything that’s in the pitcher, store in the fridge and let it cool before having a glass of homemade sweetened iced tea.
This is actually one of the best drinks during the summer but I just realized that Summer or not, we always have this in the fridge. I use sweeteners instead of sugar by the way. Iced Tea is part of our drink options which consists of water, juice for the kids, and the occasional diet sodas. Oh and booze of course.
Enjoy your glass of iced tea, anytime, anywhere.
Great recipe for Iced Tea. Have you tried Lipton Green Tea Sparkling for when you don’t have time to make your own? I’m the community manager for for the product and am interested in what Iced Tea drinkers think of it.
Kate, I actually use Lipton Tea bags. Iced, or hot, Lipton is our brand. I haven’t tried the mix. I guess I’ve been making it this way that I never venture out to the mixes
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I’ve never tried the Lipton Green Tea Sparkling, so I can’t comment on it in particular, but I’ve found that in general, the bottled tea, fountain tea, and tea mixes are NO SUBSTITUTE for the real thing! I use Lipton bags, too, which are great and don’t leave a “film” or have a bitter aftertaste like some brands can.
That’s not to say that I don’t drink an occasional bottle of Lipton (the sugar-free ones) when I’m out, but I don’t pretend it’s real tea. And iced tea from a fountain? No way.