Sweet Tea?!
Answers: How do you make your sweet tea?
I put 3 family size tea bags into pot bring them to slow boil , when it starts boiling I take it off the burner and put top on pot so tea can steep for awhile. Then I put sugar in my gallon jug and then add tea and stir while the tea is still hot so the sugar disolves properly. Then I add cold water and put in fridge and let it get good and cold.
South Carolina Sweet Tea
SUBMITTED BY: Deanna Ross PHOTO BY: REDNECKWOMAN
"Remember, this is the south where simplicity is the secret to most recipes. Follow this to the 'T' and you will have sweet tea, Sand Lapper (South Carolina) style."
PREP TIME 1 Minute
COOK TIME 10 Min
READY IN 11 Min
SERVINGS & SCALING
Original recipe yield: 1 gallon
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INGREDIENTS
3 family size tea bags
2 cups white sugar
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DIRECTIONS
Using an electric coffee maker, Place the 3 tea bags in the strainer basket (not in the pot). Brew the tea as you would coffee. Pour the sugar in a gallon pitcher. Pour in the hot tea. Continue to run coffee maker with the tea bags until you have enough tea to fill the pitcher. Allow to cool completely at room temperature, then refrigerate.
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Reviewed on Dec. 7, 2003 by JUSTVEE28 the best way to make tea.............
23 users found this review helpful
Reviewed on Jan. 25, 2004 by MONICA213 Wow I didn't realize making great iced tea could be this easy! Now I can make it often. I will probably cut down on the sugar though, although it did taste wonderfully sweet! Thanks
I fill my pitcher up with hot water from the tap & drop in two family size tea bags. Walk away for 30 minutes, and you have tea!
I don't like to use sugar in mine (empty calories, must watch the figure right?) so I sweeten each new glass with two sweet-n-low packets.
I make it in the coffee pot with 3 tea bags, but instead of sugar, I use 1 cup of splenda and 1 tablespoon of liquid sweetner. No calories in my sweet tea. Yum!
Using a coffee pot, place 4 tea bags in the basket and only add enough water to make 1/2 pot and brew. In a pitcher, fill 3/4 full of ice cubes and 3/4 cup sugar. When tea is done, pour into the pitcher and stir. Ice tea is ready to drink! Good Luck!
fill a gallon size kettle almost full about 3 inches from top.bring water to a full boil. drop in 2 family size or 10 regular size tea bags. turn off heat and let steep for 15 minutes. take a gallon pitcher add 2 cups of sugar. pour tea into pitcher and stir. top off with cold water till it make a full gallon.
I live up north, we don't make sweet tea.
Every time I go down south I have to try to get tea that is not loaded full of sugar. People just look at you like- "see if we can find some unsweetened tea for the stupid yank".
Why do southeners like thier drinks so sweet- southern comfort, what's that about. Like only southeners think whisky needs to be sweetened.
I feel better now that I got that off my chest...
SWEET ICE TEA
2 c. water
2 family size tea bags
1 1/2 c. to 2 c. sugar
Bring cold water to boil. Add tea bags, cover and turn off fire. Let set for couple minutes. Pour sugar into gallon pitcher. Add hot tea and mix. Fill with cold water stirring constantly.
I usually just buy sweet tea from McDonald's! ")
I have a two-gallon pitcher. I boil some water & pour it in the pitcher. Then I stir in two cups of sugar & add 10 regular tea bags. Let it steep for 10 minutes or so, then take the tea bags out. Fill the pitcher up the rest of the way with cold water and stir.
For a one-gallon pitcher, just boil some water and use 5 tea bags and one cup of sugar.