Sweet Iced Tea

Submitted by Mamas Kitchen Hope

"When you order 'tea' in TX you will be asked 'sweet' or 'unsweet'. It will then arrive in a big glass with lots of ice! Here is the way we make 'Swayte Tay" or Sweet Tea! Oh soo goooodd! Dont like it sweet- just leave out the sugar- or splenda."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Yields: 1 gallon
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 3 family-size tea bags
• 2 cups water
• 1 cup sugar, I use Splenda

directions

1. Put water and tea bags in a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
2. Remove from heat and cover. Let steep for 10 minutes.
3. Strain or carefully press water from tea bags.
4. Put hot tea solution into a gallon pitcher and add sweetener, stirring to dissolve.
5. Add water to pitcher to fill.
6. Cool in refrigerator and serve with ice.

Reviews

[hwt2001]

This method tastes exactly how sweet tea should. Not exactly sure if the others claiming this recipe to be "weak" are following the steps and/or ingredients exactly. The recipe calls for 3 FAMILY-sized tea bags, which is the equivalent to 12 regular-sized tea bags. Important steps are: 1) steeping, covered, for 10 minutes. If you do not know the definition of steeping, STOP... do not continue... only continue to BUY your sweet tea from the shelves. 2) Strain and press FROM the tea bags. I literally squeeze all of the liquid out of each tea bag with my fingers. This is important concentration of the tea flavor.

 

[evewitch]

I already have a great method for making tea with regular-size tea bags, but for some reason, I always have the family-size bags in the pantry. This turned out far too weak. It hardly tasted like tea at all. I will try again using this for only 1/2 gallon and see if that works better.

 

[Denise!]

This is really good, but a bit weak for me. Seems like the tea bags are smaller than they used to be, puzzling. At any rate, I added 2 more bags to another cup of boiling water and it was better. Will definitely use this method, just use more tea bags.

 

[Mountainbaby]

Good ice tea, but it might be a little weak for some. I will continue to make it using 1/2 c. splenda and 1/2 c. sugar for myself. Hubby's doctor said tea was a no-no for hubby as it is kidney stone causing in some people. I've definitely cut back on tea since I've learned about the kidney stones, but I love iced tea and your recipe. Thanks for sharing!

 

[KitchieWitchyGoo]

Nothing more delicious when it's hot then delicious Iced Tea and this one lived up to its stars.... All 5 of them! I squirted in some fresh lemon and man oh man was it good!