Recipes

[Crv]

I am looking for a homemade ice tea recipe. Also Green tea citrus recipe.

Anyone hae one?

[lolakimono]

I really like this iced tea. I use an iced tea maker, but you can use a 2 quart kettle.

Citrus Green Tea

7 Salada green tea bags

1 bag Yogi ginger tea (or a fresh piece of ginger, peeled, about the size of your thumb)

1-2 cinnamon sticks

juice of one lemon

juice of one lime

sweetener of your choice (I use simple syrup)

If you have an iced tea pitcher, you can mix all the dry ingredients in a container, and take a 1/4 cup scoop to make a pitcher. Then add the fresh juice to the pitcher and your sweetener.

If you boil water in a kettle, put the cinnamon and fresh ginger in the water and bring it to just before boiling. Then remove from heat, add the tea bags, and steep for about 5 minutes. When you transfer to a pitcher, add the juices of one lemon and one lime and your sweetener of choice.

[HonnyBrown]

lola, that looks refreshing!

[lolakimono]

On 8/12/2014 HonnyBrown said:

lola, that looks refreshing!

It's really good. I usually have a pitcher of it on hand, especially during cold/flu season. I like to heat it up sometimes too and it's just as good hot. The Vitamin C in the citrus helps to process the catechins in the green tea.

[ivey]

This isn't exactly homemade--but using teabags of your choice, add just one tea bag of that beautiful spicy tazo tea. It makes it wonderful. There is a restaurant where I go that I complimented them on the great iced tea (I live in the South). The waitperson went to check the brand, and it was Tazo.

[ladynona]

I make sweet tea

I bought a micro pot and I fill it up with water and add sugar,you might have to see how sweet you like it I put in about a 1/4 of a cup. But I like mine sweet. after I put the sugar in I put the in the microwave for six minutes, then i stir it and see if its sweet enough. then I add three tea bags and let it sit for 5 or six hours. I usually put it together in the morning and when i get home from school it ready to go.

I hope this helps

I also put raspberry syrup to make raspberry tea I use about 1/4 of a cup.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I can drink sweetened iced tea like it's going out of style. I don't make mine as sweet as traditional Southern Sweet Tea, though.

My favorite tea bags are:

Tazo Zen and Tazo Green Iced Tea - they're actually the same ingredients, but the iced tea version comes in one large bag that's enough for a 2 qt. pitcher. You still need to brew it with the boiling water, though. The larger iced tea bags can be hard to find, but if you do, they're a better value. For the regular size bags, it's 8 tea bags per 2 qt. pitcher.

Tazo Green Ginger Tea - 8 regular tea bags per 2 qt. pitcher

Luzienne Family Size Tea Bags (hot brew, but blended for iced tea) - 2 tea bags per 2 qt. pitcher

When making any of these teas, I put 1/3-1/2 cup of cane sugar in the 2 qt. pitcher. Get the tea bags ready by removing the tags and tying all the bags together (no strings on the big Tazo bag), put them in the pitcher. Pour the boiling water over the tea bags half way, or so, up the pitcher. Lay a big spoon over the tea bags to keep them submerged. Let the tea steep until it stops throwing steam (or when you get around to it). Add enough cold water to make 2 qts. I also leave the tea bags in the pitcher. At first, I thought it might make the tea bitter, but it doesn't.

[michlynn]

My family has always been a sweet tea family. The way my mom taught me to make it was this: Heat about an inch of water in a pan on the stove. (about the size of a 5 quart dutch oven). Once it boils then throw in 5 small tea bags or 1 family size bag(Lipton or Luzianne) Take off heat, put lid on and set timer for 9 minutes. Then put in sugar (about 1/2 to 3/4 cup) and dissolve it Then add cold water to top of pan and pour over ice in pitcher.

[Mtnbikegirl]

On 8/12/2014 lolakimono said:

I really like this iced tea. I use an iced tea maker, but you can use a 2 quart kettle.

Citrus Green Tea

7 Salada green tea bags

1 bag Yogi ginger tea (or a fresh piece of ginger, peeled, about the size of your thumb)

1-2 cinnamon sticks

juice of one lemon

juice of one lime

sweetener of your choice (I use simple syrup)

If you have an iced tea pitcher, you can mix all the dry ingredients in a container, and take a 1/4 cup scoop to make a pitcher. Then add the fresh juice to the pitcher and your sweetener.

If you boil water in a kettle, put the cinnamon and fresh ginger in the water and bring it to just before boiling. Then remove from heat, add the tea bags, and steep for about 5 minutes. When you transfer to a pitcher, add the juices of one lemon and one lime and your sweetener of choice.

This sounds great-thanks!

[SCHULTZI]

This is the way I make my Ice Tea and everyone loves it.

I call it 50/50 R

I use:

2 empty bottles { 48 oz } that used to have prune juice in them.

1 bottle I fill with Crystal Lite Lemonade

1 bottle I fix with tea and 3 tablespoons of sugar free Raspberry Syrup that

I get from Sams

5 envelopes of Trivia which is about 1 tablespoon

Now for the tea I put water in a pan and bring it to a boil. Then I add

9 tea bags and let it sit for 15 minutes. Then I remove the tea bags

and add some ice cubes to cool it down.

In the mean time I have added the Trivia and Raspberry syrup to one of the

bottles and I add the tea to this bottle and then fill it the rest of the way with

water.

Then I have a Tropicana Orange Juice empty bottle that I pour half lemonade

and half tea into. { equal amounts of each }

This is my tea and this is how I call it 50.50 R {R being for the Raspberry Syrup }

So Good and refreshing.

Enjoy

Schultzi