As I read Kristen King’s post, Traditional Summer Refreshment: Homemade Iced Tea, at Lively Women, and her reminiscenses of her mother making this brew, I also recalled my mom making homemade refreshing beverages on hot summer days.  I grew up on a farm, long enough ago that soda pop was a rare treat. 
So Mother made our refreshments.  These consisted of iced tea, lemonade, and mint tea.  Sometimes she combined the tea and lemon juice, then added a spring of mint.  The mint grew along the brook that ran behind our farmhouse and across the pasture.  We children were assigned the task …read more