southern sweet and I mean sweet ice tea recipe??

[awdfan]

Here's the recipe from Southern Living.

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1647507

It's not quite the same as the one from my Southern Living cookbook but I'm sure it's good.

Cajungirl, I just made this--literally, like 10 minutes ago, and it is fantastic!!! Now I'm kicking myself for always asking for the unsweet tea when I was in Atlanta. This is going to be a bad habit for me, I can already tell....

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

My mother (a Yankee) learned to make sweet tea, pound cake (made with a pound of real butter) and other southern dishes from her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. So even though we lived in the north, my dad did not lack for his southern cooking! I am a Yankee and we drank sweat tea every day growing up for dinner!

My husband is a transplant from the north to the south and he loves all of the southern food! He keeps saying that he wish he had known about grits, collards, and REAL pound cakes growing up, not to mention sweet tea. His uncle in Ohio just likes to hear me say sweet tea and he says that all he needs...a southern girl with sweet tea! I gave his aunt a Southern Living cookbook a few years back, she loves it! She just can't figure out how they didn't have a pork and butter company sponsor the book!

 

[cancer_survivor_06]

I think you and I could be long lost relatives or something with our ice tea makers and love for pillowcase dresses.

I've lived in Louisiana all my life, and I've never known a day when there wasn't a jug of sweet tea in the ice box. Recently though, my mom bought one of the Mr Coffee Ice Tea Makers and I followed suit. Growing up, mama and Ma Maw (mama's mother) always had a jug. Mama always makes a fresh jug before supper every evening.

I used to just boil a pot of water, put about 4 or 5 family size tea bags in, and put a plate over it while it steeped for 30 min or so. After steeping, I would pour it over a cup of sugar in the gallon pitcher. In my family, we use a cup of sugar for every gallon. The hot tea melts the sugar then take it to the sink and add cold tap water to finish filling the jug.

With the ice tea maker, I do like the above poster and put in as much water as the maker will hold. I put 6 family size tea bags and I set the brew strength to the strongest. I put the sugar in the jug and let the hot brew melt it as it trickles in. Then I take it to the sink and finish filling the jug with cold tap water.

I'm planning to try some simple sugar and see if that makes a difference with my sweetening. I do make my tea strong because I like it to have some kick to it. I can't drink any past 4 in the afternoon or I have trouble going to sleep. Seriously, I fix a glass of tea to take with me every time I leave the house.

We so could be I grew up in new orleans, my mom and maw maw make theirs the same way its just too much work for me b/c we are always on the go. I make mine on the strongest setting its practically on the coffee setting. I have to gallon size pitchers that I bought at walmart and I put the tea in those b/c the pitcher that comes w/ the machine can crack if you use it excessively like I do I just had to get rid of mine and get a new one b/c the I had for 7yrs and three pitchers later I couldn't get the replacement pitchers anymore.

 

[LisaG]

I use an ice tea-maker. Put 3 family-size tea bags into the maker. (Luzianne is our favorite) Fill to the max water line. And brew. Let sit for 15-30 min. Add 1 cup sugar to a gallon pitcher. Add brewed tea and enough water to fill the gallon pitcher. Stir and store in the fridge. Add fresh lemon slice per glass.
So Easy! It's all we drink at our house...better than soda!

 

[cancer_survivor_06]

I usually make a small pitcher w/ lemon the longer it sits in the tea its more of a sweet lemon flavor and we like an occasional glass of tea w/ lemon and I will admit that when the pitcher is empty I like to take out the lemon half and squeeze it dry.