Ice tea add ins

[evening sun]

Thank you, I will try most of these, will pass on the run though I prefer wine, but not in my tea.

[RDM66]

Originally Posted by evening sun

What do you add to your black ice tea? I love different ice teas, but do not like the price of some of the flavored ones, This week, I added a sugar free cherry powder to my pitcher of tea, not too bad. Any other ideas besides sweetener, lemon & mint?

Over the weekend I made a raspberry syrup and added some to my iced tea. Lipton also makes a raspberry tea, of course, but I doubt that there is a single real raspberry in it. It's all chemicals and artificial flavors.

Raspberry syrup is easy to make:

2 cups raspberries
1/3 cup sugar

Place the raspberries in pot with the sugar over medium heat. Gently simmer until the raspberries break down and the sugar melts (about 5 minutes). Strain the syrup, using a fine mesh strainer so you can catch all the small seeds and pulp.

I like to add a spoon or two of this syrup to my iced tea to make real raspberry tea. This syrup is also great on ice cream or chocolate cake along with a few whole raspberries.

[Delahanty]

Originally Posted by elnina

I used to mix some fragrant/flavored teas into black loose leaf tea.
You don't need much of it to enhance the flavor, and you can make many different flavors that way.
Many of those flavored teas not only taste great but also are beneficial - like jasmine has a calming effects and also can relieve blood vessels around your eyes and help relax your muscles.
Orchid tea could refresh brain....
There are others like rose tea, strawberry, lavender, clover, apricot, mint, chamomile, cherry, orange, bergamot orange, ginger, lemon, passion fruit etc. etc..
Scented teas-the art of flavoring tea with scent
List of scented teas:
https://www.teaforte.com/store/gourmet-tea/tea-flavors/

Nilgiri and Keemun are my favorites.

This is always a nice idea.

Unfortunately for me, I can't drink iced black tea the way I'd like to (kidney stones). So I fill a 2-liter pitcher with lemonade and either 2 cups of black tea, or one cup of black tea and one cup of hibiscus, which adds a beautiful color. Even the one cup, alone, makes the flavor of black tea distinguishable.

There's such a variety of flavored and scented teas, which makes things easier for someone like me who doesn't like the "gold standard" in hydration for those prone to kidney stones--plain water.