PrincessSuzanne
<font color=red>Guess I will be eating crow tonigh
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- Jan 1, 2007
LOL, sweet tea is tea that you add sugar to while it is still warm. I use 2 lipton decaffeinated tea brew bags and I put them in a small pot of water with a pinch of baking soda. I let that come to a boil. After coming to a boil for a minute or so I take it off the stove. In a pitcher, I add a cup and a half of sugar and enough water so to fill up half of the pitcher. I then pour the tea from the pot into the pitcher, making sure to leave the tea brew bags in the pot. Then I stir the tea in the pitcher until the sugar is dissolved. Then I add more water until it reaches the spout of the pitcher. Stir it again and put it in the fridge. When it's cold pour it into a glass with ice and you've got southern sweet tea!!! Some people like it much sweeter than that, including my grandma who makes it soooo sweet that you have to add a bit of extra water to your glass to cut the sweetness. But I like it sweet but not like syrup. However, chick fil a has the best tea in the world!!!
Thanks to all the posters. It's nice to know that there are people out there like me that can't live without sweet tea!!!
What is the baking soda for? I have never heard of doing that. I know my grandmother would add saccrin (sp?) when I was younger, don't know why on that either, then all of a sudden she quit doing that.
I usually make a gallon at the time. I bring a small pot of water to a boil, then add the tea bags (6 or 7 small ones) let it sit for a little while, then put 2 cups of sugar in the pitcher and add the tea water I have reheated and fill with cold tap water.
I figure, I can make it in the coffee maker in the room and then keep it in the fridge, Dh will have to keep the ice bucket full. I am about sweet tea, like some people are coffee, I need several galsses to get my day started.
Suzanne