Recipes

[buddylou]

I am always buying peach flavored tea and would love to make my own. I make a lot of tea and love southern sweet iced tea but I have never flavored any. I found some recipes on different sites but would love to have some tried and proven recipes from anyone that makes peach or raspberry flavored tea.

I have gotten some of the best recipes from the ladies on this forum. Thank you in advance.

[LilSweetTea]

BuddyLou, I, too, would like to read a good recipe for peach tea. I will be keeping a eye out for one.

[GSPgirl]

I use peach tea, peach syrup from my local Farmers Mkt and sweetener per glass. I am assuming you can use one of those coffee syrups from World Mkt. We have McCallisters delis here and their peach tea actually has chunks of peach in it. I bet you could also use peach syrup from a can of peaches.

[Honeybit]

There is a restaurant at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park that has the BEST Peach Tea. They bring a little container to the table to add to your individual glass to taste. I got brave and asked for their secret, and it is Monin Peach Syrup. I found that Monin makes all sorts of flavored syrups for mixing drinks, and it can be found at large liquor stores or you can order it through Amazon.

Edited to Add: World Market may carry it also, although the one near me closed in 2012 so I can't confirm that they have the Monin brand.

[buddylou]

I did find the Monin brand syrup on Amazon. I ordered a bottle of the peach flavor, I will report back when it gets here and I try it. Thanks HoneyBit.

[lolakimono]

Peach Iced Tea Recipe

Author: Melissa @ No. 2 Pencil

Recipe type: Drink

Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 10 mins Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 8

Ingredients

12 regular sized tea bags

Fresh, filtered water

1 cup of sugar

¼ teaspoon of baking soda

1 11.5 oz can of peach nectar – found in juice aisle

1 lemon

4 fresh peaches

Instructions

Bring 4 cups of water to a boil, remove from heat and add tea bags.

Let tea steep for about 10 minutes.

Remove tea bags and add sugar to hot water, stir until dissolved.

Add baking soda and peach nectar and stir.

Pour tea mixture into large pitcher and stir in 10 cups of ice water.

Stir in 1-2 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Add sliced, fresh peaches and serve over ice.

Makes one gallon of peach iced tea.

[lolakimono]

Recipe courtesy of Patrick and Gina Neely

Recipe courtesy The Neelys

Total Time:

20 min

Prep:

5 min

Inactive:

10 min

Cook:

5 min

Yield:4 servings

Level:Easy

Ingredients

8 bags English Breakfast Tea

1 bag hibiscus tea

8 cups water

1 (16-ounce) bag sliced frozen peaches, thawed, divided

1 (12-ounce) can peach nectar, chilled

1/4 cup peach liquor

Fresh Mint, for garnish

Directions

Bring the water to a boil in a large pot. Turn off heat. Add tea bags and steep for 5 to 10 minutes. Allow to cool.

Add 12-ounces of the peaches to a blender and puree until it reaches a smooth consistency.

Combine the cool tea, peach puree, peach nectar, peach liquor and remaining slices of peaches to a glass pitcher. Serve over tall glasses of ice with a sprig of mint to garnish.

[kittymomNC]

Easy way to make peach or raspberry flavored iced tea - I buy Welch's White Grape Peach Juice Concentrate or Welch's White Grape Raspberry Juice Concentrate (where the concentrated O.J. is in the freezer section) and keep it in my freezer door. I keep a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge -- if I want to flavor just one glass, I use maybe a tablespoon of the concentrate and stir it in(it doesn't freeze solid so it's not difficult to get it out by the spoonful). You could experiment with flavoring a whole pitcher - it wouldn't take a whole can of the concentrate, just probably several tablespoons. It's delicious this way and so easy -- I used to drink soft drinks all the time because I never could get my iced tea to taste exactly right. I learned this trick from a friend, and I haven't downed a sugar-laden cola drink in so long I can't remember-they almost burn my tongue! I have to have my iced tea and my concentrates available all the time!

P.S. I also sweeten my tea with Domino Light Sugar & Stevia Blend to cut down on the sugar - tastes great!

[forrestwolf]

I am a Deep South girl, but so not "Southern" sometimes............. I use a 2 1/2 qt boiler and 2 family size tea bags and bring this to a near boil, but really just a good simmer, then turn off, and let it steep for a bit, and then put in my pitcher, and do not squeeze the tea bags...........add no sugar.........or ANY flavoring, and pour over a glass of ice with either a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime (none of that bottled stuff).....I like pure tea, nothing sweet about it........

[LilSweetTea]

On 3/15/2014 kittymomNC said:

Easy way to make peach or raspberry flavored iced tea - I buy Welch's White Grape Peach Juice Concentrate or Welch's White Grape Raspberry Juice Concentrate (where the concentrated O.J. is in the freezer section) and keep it in my freezer door. I keep a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge -- if I want to flavor just one glass, I use maybe a tablespoon of the concentrate and stir it in(it doesn't freeze solid so it's not difficult to get it out by the spoonful). You could experiment with flavoring a whole pitcher - it wouldn't take a whole can of the concentrate, just probably several tablespoons. It's delicious this way and so easy -- I used to drink soft drinks all the time because I never could get my iced tea to taste exactly right. I learned this trick from a friend, and I haven't downed a sugar-laden cola drink in so long I can't remember-they almost burn my tongue! I have to have my iced tea and my concentrates available all the time!

P.S. I also sweeten my tea with Domino Light Sugar & Stevia Blend to cut down on the sugar - tastes great!

I tried your concentrated juice idea and it really made my sweet tea pop Thanks for the tip, kittymomNC.