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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

SWEET TEA.....

                                  TRUE SOUTHERN SWEET TEA

Makes 2 liters
Ingredients:
1/4 tsp. baking soda ( yep you read that right...baking soda!)8 c. hot water4 family size black tea bags (Luzianne or Lipton are formulated for ice tea)
For the syrup:
1 c. water3/4 c. sugar (more or less according to your taste)
Add baking soda and boiled water in heat-proof pitcher.  Steep your tea bags for 5 minutes.
in the meantime make your syrup by combining the water and the sugar in small sauce pan and heat over medium heat stirring occassionally until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove tea bags from tea stir in syrup. Put ice in favorite ice tea glass, pour tea and get ready to drink the smoothest glass of ice tea your taste buds ever tasted.  No need to share the secret ingredient, sit back and enjoy how everyone is raving over your tea!!!  Life is sweet!
















1 comment:

  1. I tried this and let me say it is the smoothest ice tea ever! This will definitely be my recipe for ice tea forever!!!

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