Kedisoni -- I gotta try it!!
PassthePeace1 said:
Here in Texas we drink Ice Tea by the oceans full...I remember a time, when you went to a diner and got a glass rather if you ordered it or not...lol..I prefer mine unsweeten...and very fresh...I don't like sun tea, because it taste like day old tea for me..yuk.
I lived in Mississippi for three years as a child and gained a real love for that southern iced tea. I like mine candy-sweet.
Living in the North and the North-West most of my life, I have had some pretty bad excuses for southern iced tea. Most of the time, what they call "southern iced tea" here
is sun tea, but you cracked me up with your "I don't like sun tea, because it taste like day old tea for me." Ladies and gentlemen! Stand and salute a
real southern iced tea connoisseur
!
When I make souther iced tea, I make it by the gallon, and poor northern me, I use Lipton. Furthermore, they do not sell "family-sized tea bags" up here.
Ingredients (from site)
3 Family Size Tea Bags
2 Cups Of Cold Water
1 Cup of Sugar
Directions Place the two cups water in a pot and add the tea bags. Bring to a boil, do not continue boiling. Remove from heat and let steep. Pour warm tea into empty pitcher. Add the sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Fill remaining pitcher with cold water. Optional - some women say they use less water and add ice to the tea.
One of the main tricks to southern iced tea is
put that sugar in and stir it until it is dissolved in the hot water, before you let anything cold touch it! Otherwise, you will get ugly, cloudy tea, and for me, it taints the taste (probably psychological). I never add water, though; I add tons of ice instead -- it cools it rapidly.
Sandwich:
Toast a sandwich roll in a pan with butter and lots of crushed garlic. Top with a slice each of Swiss and cheddar and put in a toaster-oven until the cheese is all melted. Simple, but the blend of Swiss and cheddar is wonderful!
http://www.grits.com/tea.htm
Pam
