Best Southern Sweet Tea Recipe???!
Best Southern Sweet Tea Recipe???
I need a really good recipe for Southern Sweet Tea.
Answers:
This is from Recipezaar.com http://www.recipezaar.com/63785...
Southern Sweet Tea Recipe #63785
This is how my Granny made sweet tea and it is some kind of sweet. Know that and beware. Pa-Paw used to down 2-3 glasses after working in the garden all day. Back off the sugar if you can't handle it. This one is for true southerners only ;) by NurseDi
2 quarts
30 min 15 min prep
6 regular tea bags
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups boiling water
1 1/2-2 cups sugar
6 cups cold water
In a large glass measuring cup, place the tea bags and add the baking soda.
Pour the boiling water over the tea bags.
Cover and steep for 15 minutes.
Take out the tea bags and do not squeeze them.
Pour the tea mixture into a 2-quart pitcher; add the sugar.
Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Add in the cold water.
Let cool; chill in the refrigerator and serve over ice.
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Let me say! I am southern and i have never heard of anyone makin sweet tea like the person who answered before me! here's what you do! boil 6 tea bags & pour into pitcher then pour 2 cups of sugar & add water and stir! i like to throw ice cubes in the pitcher also!
now thats southern style sweettea!
I've never heard of putting baking soda in tea...nor do I see the point.
The easiest way to do it right is to use an Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker....someone from the south doesn't need to but if you are wanting a recipe I'm guessing you would like the easiest way to get it right.
Ok here goes. Follow this exactly. It's very easy but people somehow mess it up.
This is for 3 quarts, which is what the Mr. Coffee makes (the one from Walmart @ $17)
Fill to the 3 quart water line, there are two 3 quart lines it's the lower one (it's best if you use filtered water but it doesn't matter that much)
Pour this into the machine
Put the basket in the machine and add 6 bags of tea. You can use more, but I like to use 6 and put it on strong and it works.
Put about an inch of water in the now empty pitcher
Add to it anywhere between 1/2-2 cups of sugar. (I use between about 1 cup but you're going to have to figure out what you prefer. If you aren't from the south, start at 3/4 of a cup and see what you think for the next pitcher. )
Stir this until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Add ice to this until the ice is 3/4 of the way to the top of the pitcher.
Put it under the spout and turn the machine on.
When it's done stir and taste...
If it isn't sweet enough or strong enough adjust for the next time. There isn't anything you can do about it now. If you add sugar to cold tea it will taste completely different. Just remember when adjusting sweet and strong they counteract each other. If you make it stronger it will automatically make it less sweet if you don't adjust the sugar.
Sugar is like salt...southerners put a lot of sugar because once you get used to it you need a little more.