What is the best way to make good sweet tea?!
What is the best way to make good sweet tea?
Answers:
If you have a drip coffee maker, it's as simple as letting the water run through!! You can either use tea bags in the filter area without a coffee filter of course, or you can add the tea bags to the hot water when it has run through. Let it steep to desired color and flavor, remove tea bags, pour desired amount of sweetener(sugar or artificial) into the container and then add the hot tea. If you happened to get it too strong, add ice cubes to your glass when serving!!
ENJOY!! : )
Start with fresh cold water, heat until boiling, remove from heat then add tea bags. Let steep for approximately 10 minutes. Pour tea in a picture sweeten wile still hot and stir. Then add equal amout of water and ice to colld and stir. Pour over ice, add lemon and enjoy.
Let your Hot water Tap run for a minute so it's good and hot, put the desired amount of sugar (I use 1 1/2c of sugar) pour into the bottom of your pitcher and then fill it up with hot water. You can also boil water on the stove this is just easier. Stir the sugar and water mixture and then place your Tea Bags in (I use 2 family size tea bags) Let it sit for a while and then you can pull the tea bags out (I leave mine in) give it a gentle stir and put in fridge.
Believe it or not this method keeps your plastic pitchers from staining where as brewing tea will stain them.
Here's my way.Take and boil the water.Then put 4 small tea bags in to start.Once it boils turn it off.Let sit 5 mins.then add your sugar to the hot tea.Stir (2 cups sugar for gallon of tea)Then pour into pitcher,add water to make gallon.I never put ice in my pitcher, but I guess you could.The sugar dissolves quickly with the hot tea....
The best way is to prepare a simple syrup first. You do this by dissolving the sugar in water in a pot on simmer. Once it cools you can use it. Brew your favorite tea and then add the syrup to it.
Adding a few slices of lemon makes it extra good. Just don't squeeze too much of the lemon into the tea as it would make it sour.