How to make Sweet Tea the southern way.

[ladyT]

Here is what you need.

7 lipton tea bags. (black tea)
1 cup of sugar
1 spoon
A 1 gallon container
Sauce pan
Stove


Now fill sauce pan with water. Bring water to a boil. Remove sauce pan from heat.

Pour the cup of sugar into the hot water and stir with spoon till sugar dissolves.

Now take the 7 tea bags and dip in the water several times then allow them to soak in the water for 4 hours. Do not let the tags or staples on the tags enter the water.

After 4 hours or more if you like pour the contents of the sauce pan into your 1 gallon container.

Refill the sauce pan with water and dip the tea bags several times in the clear water then throw the tea bags away.

Pour the water in the sauce pan into the gallon container.

Top off the gallon container with water, stir, cap and then place container into the fridge.

Allow the tea to sit overnight in the fridge as this produces the best tasting tea.

Serve tea in a glass full of ice. A mason jar is best. If a mason jar is not available then use some other form of glass for best results. Remember to fill the glass with ice.


Enjoy

 

[shaggist]

There is a perfectly acceptable alternative that is exactly the same, except that you use 4 Luzianne Iced Tea Family Size bags. I have found it to be less likely to turn cloudy in the fridge. You are more likely to go to Heaven drinking 'Sweet Tea' as it is Holy Rite in the South.

 

[BearBio]

Place one tea bag in a glass of water. Soak 1/2 hour, then remove. Discard water. Then place tea bag in a bowl and fill bowl to the top with sugar. Eat sugar with a spoon.

Yuukkkkk!

 

[shouldazagged]

I'm an old East Tennessee boy (of 75), and I'm sure I'm regarded as a heretic. Oh, sure, I only used Hellmann's mayonnaise, I do really good fried chicken and chicken-fried pork chops, and I know the right way to cook greens and grits and fried okra. But I like my iced tea unsweetened; and what's even worse for a Tennesseean, I really don't care a hell of a lot for catfish.

I know it's shameful, but I'm probably too old to change now.

 

[diamonback68]

But I like my iced tea unsweetened; and what's even worse for a Tennesseean, I really don't care a hell of a lot for catfish.

Heretic!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My mom's from N.O. Two thing will get you run off QUICK, one is runny grits and the other is instant tea! Ivan

 

[Lost Lake]

My last batch was 16 packets of Lipton cut open and dumped in a double coffee filter, a quart of water through the Bunn, then another pint through the tea to extract any remaining color.

Added 1 1/4c of sugar and a couple teaspoons of some instant raspberry tea mix and water to make a gallon.

This stuff is too sweet but the kids like it. It's almost black!

The Lipton is almost gone then I'm moving on to Luzianne.

 

[InfantryWeaponsOfficer]

I really don't care a hell of a lot for catfish.

How do you live with yourself?

Only two twyes of catfish in Alabama; great catfish and better catfish. There are folks in hell for culling catfish.

 

[handejector]

South Georgia style tea-

Boil all the tea you got till the leaves are white. Remove tea bags.
Dump in all the sugar you got. Try to scrounge up more sugar an' dump it in.
If it's too thick to drink, jus' wait till the ice melts a little an' thins 'er down.
Call anyone ya serve it to "Hon".

But I'm with shouldazagged on the catfish-
I'll just eat some fine pond mud with hot grease poured over it, if thass aw'ight.

 

[SW_shooter]

Disclaimer: I ain't from Texas, I don't drink "tea", I drink "sweet tea" if nothing else is available.

The Mrs is from Texas, she makes real tea according to her. I think she fills a glass jar with water, hangs some tea bags in it for a while (seems like a day or so) and then pours it over ice as she desires a glass.

 

[hberttmank]

I like iced tea, but just can't take it sweet.

 

[DeathGrip]

I make mine w/o sugar and sweeten it after I pour a glass.

That's where the tea spoon comes in. Y'all might have seen one, It's that long one.

I like a squeeze of lemon or better yet key lime.

 

[ladyT]

I'm an old East Tennessee boy (of 75), and I'm sure I'm regarded as a heretic. Oh, sure, I only used Hellmann's mayonnaise, I do really good fried chicken and chicken-fried pork chops, and I know the right way to cook greens and grits and fried okra. But I like my iced tea unsweetened; and what's even worse for a Tennesseean, I really don't care a hell of a lot for catfish.

I know it's shameful, but I'm probably too old to change now.

My mama warned me about you folks from Tennessee and your strange ways.

 

[shaggist]

Another Holy Rite is Duke's Mayonnaise. It is the ONLY mayo that comes close to real, homemade mayo, according to my Grandma, born in 1886, who used to make it from scratch when she was growing up. She said everything else just tasted like salad dressing. She was right, as usual.

 

[Alnamvet68]

That's what I like, Hellman's mayo and the one and only authentic iced tea, my tea.

 

[Bert Man]

Shaggist beat me to it. Love Duke's mayo. Alas, no more sweet tea here. Have to limit sugar intake so I don't go Type II. Belzoni, MS is known as the catfish capital of the world so gotta have a right smart of that on a purt near reglar basis. By the way pond raised farm catfish is not muddy.

 

[ladder13]

tea,catfish and mayo.................i like pie

 

[Ogandydancer]

Four family sized bags of Luzianne, two full pots of water thru Mr. Coffee barely 1 1/2 cups of sugar DO NOT weaken by adding more water. Cool to room temp serve with ice and a squirt of lemon juice. Oh yeah Hellmans Mayo. Everything else is just nasty. Leave the catfish for the cats.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Call me Ishmael, but who really cares if the tea is clear or cloudy.....certainly not moi.

 

[fat tom]

Place one tea bag in a glass of water. Soak 1/2 hour, then remove. Discard water. Then place tea bag in a bowl and fill bowl to the top with sugar. Eat sugar with a spoon.

Yuukkkkk!

Hey! Don't you go projectin' your character flaws on an open forum now,y'hear?
f.t.