Southern Sweet Tea

Name: Southern Sweet Tea
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 gallon, 16 serving(s)
Ingredients: 16 cups water, divided; 6 regular tea bags or 3 family-size tea bags; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 1/8 teaspoon baking soda

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"This comes from the Lipton website and is the best recipe for sweet tea I've found."

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ingredients

16 cups water, divided
6 regular tea bags or 3 family-size tea bags
1 ¹⁄₂ cups sugar
¹⁄₈ teaspoon baking soda

directions

Bring 4 cups water to a boil over high heat in 2-quart saucepan.
Remove from heat; add tea bags and brew 15 minutes, dunking tea bags several times.
Remove tea bags and squeeze.
Stir in sugar and baking soda until completely dissolved.
Stir in remaining 12 cups water.

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review by gailanng

5/29/2012

Off to jury duty and I only had time to fix my husband tea. Somebody come fix his dinner...will ya.
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5/29/2012
creation by My Kitchen

10/16/2011

This comes from the Lipton website and is the best recipe for sweet tea I've found.