Originally Posted by
quilter1
This sounds like a simple question for someone who has been cooking for 50+ years, but how do you make real iced tea? I dislike the canned sweet tea we buy way up here in the north. I make a very good pot of hot tea but iced sweet tea has me baffled. It would be nice to have a pitcher in my fridge ready to drink, now that our hot and humid summer is approaching. Thanks everyone for the help.
You can make sweet tea syrup and store in the refrigerator. Take 3 cups of water and boil. Put in four of the large family size tea bags. Let them steep in the water for 20 minutes or so. Squeeze out the tea bags. Then reboil the tea with 3/4 cup of sugar. You get a simple syrup (about a cup and a half). Put that in a mason jar in the refrigerator - it will be okay for up to 2 months. When you want sweet tea take 1/4 cup of the syrup and mix with about 2 quarts of water.