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I will be making this recipe this weekend. Since moving out of the south, I have been craving some real sweet tea. It's going to go great with my BBQ ribs and cornbread, I can't wait!
I make sweet tea using a ratio of 6 teabags and a cup of sugar to a gallon of water. I don't drink it all that much (even though I love it), but my partner is addicted to it.
ugh. you can tell i am from the north because sweet tea is not my thing....give me real ice tea with lemon or an arnold palmer!!
But sweet tea IS real iced tea. It is what I grew up on...every restaurant served it that way. If you just went in and asked for "tea" you would get a tall glass of iced sweet tea, oftentimes with the pitcher left at your table. Actually I rarely order or make it now since I have to avoid the sugar, but it is the way tea was mean't to be. I do brew my tea with an occasional variation, though, by brewing an orange spice (e.g., Constant Comment or Pickwich orange) tea bag and some cloves in with the regular tea to make a subtle spicy tea.
But sweet tea IS real iced tea. It is what I grew up on...every restaurant served it that way. If you just went in and asked for "tea" you would get a tall glass of iced sweet tea, oftentimes with the pitcher left at your table. Actually I rarely order or make it now since I have to avoid the sugar, but it is the way tea was mean't to be. I do brew my tea with an occasional variation, though, by brewing an orange spice (e.g., Constant Comment or Pickwich orange) tea bag and some cloves in with the regular tea to make a subtle spicy tea.
If you just went in and asked for "tea" up here in the Pacific Northwest you would get hot tea...iced sweet tea is next to nonexistent up here.
The only places that usually have sweet tea are the restaurants at truck stops.
I ran out of Lipton's and had some expensive rose-petal black tea and used that instead. Perhaps not everyone's taste, but I thought it was fine. Add sugar when hot, of course.
If you just went in and asked for "tea" up here in the Pacific Northwest you would get hot tea...iced sweet tea is next to nonexistent up here.
The only places that usually have sweet tea are the restaurants at truck stops.
Just another one of those regional differences...
That's how it was in El Paso (where we just moved from). But not even the truck stops had sweet tea until you got about an hour and a half away from El Paso, going towards east Texas. Then we'd stop and get me some sweet tea and fried corn balls.
Well, MacDonald's has it now. It sounds good but I don't want to try it because of all the sugar. Yesterday I made a new tea recipe: green tea, frozen strawberries, and honey -- iced. It was thirst quenching with less guilt.
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I do brew my tea with an occasional variation, though, by brewing an orange spice (e.g., Constant Comment or Pickwich orange) tea bag and some cloves in with the regular tea to make a subtle spicy tea.
