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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Recipe by My Kitchen

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

READY IN: 10mins

SERVES: 16

YIELD: 1 gallon

UNITS: US

INGREDIENTS

Nutrition

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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