Summertime Iced Tea

Nif's Note:

A refreshing drink from Gooseberry Patch. The lemonade adds a nice, clean taste to this iced tea. For a really cool and original way to serve this drink to guests, check out step 3. Enjoy!

• Total Time: 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 10

• 4 cups boiling water
• 2 family-size tea bags or 8 regular tea bags
• 6 leaves fresh mint
• 6 ounces frozen lemonade concentrate
• 1 cup sugar
• 5 cups cold water

Garnish

• ice cube , fresh mint sprigs

Directions:

1. Pour boiling water into a large heatproof pitcher. Add teabags and mint leaves; let stand for 5 minutes. Discard teabags and mint leaves.
2. Add frozen lemonade, sugar and cold water, mixing well. Serve over ice; garnish with mint sprigs.
3. A really neat way that Gooseberry showed this drink is to put each serving in mason jars, sealer lids and all, with a slice of lemon in each jar. Put all the jars in a bucket of ice and serve to your guests that way. Very impressive for a barbeque or gathering and a very inexpensive way to do it as well.

Reviews

[Domestic Goddess]

Another review by Domestic Goddess: Nif, I made your iced tea for a 2nd time, but using spearmint leaves from our garden. While our leaves were rather small in size, I ended up adding more to the tea. I even left the mint leaves in the pitcher over night, then removed them in the morning. I found using spearmint leaves, gives the tea just a slight hint of mint flavor, which still is quite refreshing and oh so good!! My review on July 17, 2011... I've never had iced tea that was brewed with fresh mint. I was impressed with the end results. This tea was quite refreshing! I however, steeped my tea for 15 minutes; plus I only added a 1/4 cup (plus) 1 tablespoon of the sugar, which I thought sweetened the tea perfectly. I look forward to making this tea again, and sharing it with my daughters and son-in-laws, as I don't think they've ever had mint flavored iced tea before. It'll be interesting to see what they think of it. I'm hoping they'll like it as much as I do, as this recipe is definitely a keeper. Nif, thanx for posting this recipe!!

[lauralie41]

We love mint tea so this one was going to be a winner! I used my iced tea maker and layered the mint leaves on top of 6 regular sized tea bags. I would use a little less sugar next time but I like a tarter flavor. Nif this was a great iced tea recipe, thank you for sharing. Made and reviewed for Kittencal's Mini Cook-a-thon.

[megs_]

This so sooooooooo good! :) I'm one of those people who likes a little tea with my lemon, as DH says. lol. This tea is perfect for us lemon lovers! I omitted the mint b/c I didn't have any but don't think I missed it - it was perfect for me! *takes a sip* Mmmmm, thanks for sharing!