Recipes

[pattypeep]

Since the sun has shown it's cheerful self, I am into making sun tea again. I like my tea super sweet, so I guess I make sweet tea. ?? Don't know. How much sweetener do you use for sweet tea?

[Kinz]

None!  I drink unsweetened tea.  I know most people drink it with some kind of sugar in it though.

[ChynnaBlue]

Actual southern sweet tea has one cup of sugar and 4 cups of water. It's basically tea-flavored Kool-Aid. 

I live in Texas and don't drink sweet tea because it's much too sweet. I drink my tea unsweetened, but you can always experiment with the amount of sugar. Even when I made actual Kool-Aid, I didn't put in the full one cup of sugar. That's a quarter cup of sugar for every glass.

[RedTop]

We make sweet tea every day and use 1 cup of sugar to sweeten our 12 cup container of tea.   

[pattypeep]

Thank you for the replies, everyone !!

[Mz iMac]

I make sweet tea all year round & I live on the east coast.

I make it by the gallon.  My parents are from the south.  So I was taught by them on how to make a gallon of it at a time.

Sugar - 2 1/2 cups of sugar

Water - 2 cups

Pour sugar in a medium size pan.  Add water & boil.

Turn down heat to medium & start stirring until you have a sugary syrup.

My parents have always sworn that the syrup is what makes "sweet" southern tea using Lipton tea bags.

[DottieBlue]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

I make sweet tea all year round & I live on the east coast.

I make it by the gallon.  My parents are from the south.  So I was taught by them on how to make a gallon of it at a time.

Sugar - 2 1/2 cups of sugar

Water - 2 cups

Pour sugar in a medium size pan.  Add water & boil.

Turn down heat to medium & start stirring until you have a sugary syrup.

My parents have always sworn that the syrup is what makes "sweet" southern tea using Lipton tea bags.

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I love sweetened tea.  My Dad was from the South, so my Mom learned to make sweet tea. 

My question:  Could you make the syrup, store it in a container, then add it to a glass of unsweetened tea as needed?  DH likes his tea unsweetened, and granulated suger doesn't disolve/mix very well in cold or even room temperature tea.

[Mz iMac]

@DottieBlue

My brother does.  He only drinks black coffee & uses stored syrup sugar or sugar cubes.  He doesn't like granulated sugar.

HTH

[pattypeep]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

I make sweet tea all year round & I live on the east coast.

I make it by the gallon.  My parents are from the south.  So I was taught by them on how to make a gallon of it at a time.

Sugar - 2 1/2 cups of sugar

Water - 2 cups

Pour sugar in a medium size pan.  Add water & boil.

Turn down heat to medium & start stirring until you have a sugary syrup.

My parents have always sworn that the syrup is what makes "sweet" southern tea using Lipton tea bags.

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Oooooh, I will try this. Do you think it would work with articial sweetener such as Splenda?

[kitty4me]

I too drink unsweetened Tea. My problem is finding a really good tasting Tea and preferrably Organice and a Black Tea.