Amber's Down Home Peach Iced Tea

Submitted by A.D.Judy

"A yummy classic! Sweet Peach Iced Tea! This tasty, cool, refreshing treat is sure to quench any thirst! Filled with a fresh peach taste, that will remind of you a lazy summer day, long after summers' past! To Serve: Dip the rim of a tall ice tea glass with peach syrup, then dip in granulated sugar! Top it off with a peach slice affixed to the rim, and some ice cubes and Enjoy!"

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Yields: 2 quarts
• Serves: 4-8

ingredients

• 8-12 black tea bags, non flavored, tags removed if any
• 425.24 g can yellow cling peaches, reserve syrup
• 236.59 ml sugar, can substitute artificial sweetener
• 2207.01 ml water

directions

1. In a 3qt stock pot, combine the tea bags, water and sugar.
2. Brew on med-low heat.
3. Open the canned peaches, and drain the syrup into the pot.
4. Drop in 3-5 peach slices.
5. Reserve the rest of the peaches on the side.
6. Brew the tea to just under a boil.
7. Remove from heat.
8. Strain off the tea bags, but leave the peach slices.
9. Return tea to pot, cover and let sit until tea is room temperature.
10. Place tea into a a pitcher for serving.
11. Refrigerate until chilled.

Reviews

[Annacia]

Mmmmmm, summer and sweet tea. This has a perfect amount of sweetening and the peachiness (is that a word?) is great. It just makes you want to take that iced pitcher and move out to the porch and put your feet up with a good book. Simple to make and made with things I always have on hand. Pure pleasure.

 

[brittanymchauvin]

This ended up being much better than I'd expected! I used 8 bags of black tea, and doubled the amount of peach slices (about 10 slices) from a can with heavy syrup. It ended up being rather sweet, which I personally like. If you're not so crazy about sweetness, consider reducing the amount of sugar and using peaches in their juice rather than syrup. I believe adding the amount of slices I did really helps bring out the peach flavor, which I wanted to be rather strong. Overall, I loved this!

 

[Maryland Jim]

I made this tonight to go with a pork chop dinner that I served my DD, DSIL and DW. I thought it was pretty good but the others weren't so crazy about it. My DW is a plain sweet tea drinker and adding fruit just isn't her cup of tea! But I liked it. Made for PAC 2011.