Spiced Thyme and Lime Iced Tea

This is good hot too! Recipe courtesy Giada De Laurentiis from Foodnetwork Show: Giada at HomeEpisode: Weeknight Special

• Ready In: 10 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 6  sprigs fresh thyme
• 2  cinnamon sticks
• 2  large limes, juice and zest of
• 3  black decaffinated tea bags (such as Twining's Irish Breakfast Tea)
•  ice

Directions

1. Bring 6 cups water, sugar, thyme, cinnamon sticks, lime juice and lime zest to a boil in a 5-quart saucepan over medium-high heat. Remove the pan from the heat and add the tea bags. Steep the tea for 15 minutes. Remove the tea bags and allow the mixture to cool to room temperature, about 1 hour. Strain the mixture into a pitcher and refrigerate until ready to serve.
2. Pour the tea into 4 ice-filled glasses and serve.