Make plans to follow along the Second Annual Bloggy Progressive Dinner hosted by Amy at Amy’s Finer Things. There will be fabulous recipes posted each day this week. You won’t want to miss them!
Today JessieLeigh over at Parenting the Tiniest of Miracles is serving us drinks!
While I realize the more exciting holiday drinks are wassail, little spiced concoctions and the like, I am posting a recipe for sweet tea.
Because I make it really well.
And I want you to be able to enjoy it’s divine goodness also!
It’s not a before- or after-dinner drink, but a during-dinner drink. And you’ll be oh so happy you’ve taken the time to make it.
I am a girl born and raised in the South, and well…we do sweet tea right. And we drink sweet tea at most of our meals, so that includes at a Bloggy Progressive Dinner!
(And yes, I realize the actual phrase is ‘Sweetened Tea’ but no one ever says it that way. But honestly? I didn’t know it was ‘Sweetened Tea’ until I went to college! Shameful, I know…)
So here is my prized recipe for Sweet Tea:
First assemble your items:
1-gallon pitcher – I use this one
1-cup measuring cup
sugar
3-4 Family-size Lipton Tea Bags – I’m a little partial to Lipton
Long-handled spoon
2-qt. pot with lid (or whatever size you have on hand)
Directions:
Fill your pot with water, until it is about an inch from the top. Place the lid on it and set it on your burner on the stove.
Turn your burner on high until the water comes to a rapid, rolling boil.
Set your pot off of the burner. Put your tea bags inside the pot with the strings hanging down the sides and put the lid back on your pot.
Let the pot set (ie: steep) for about 10 minutes or so.
While the tea is steeping, get your 1-gallon pitcher ready:
Set the pitcher in your sink. Add 1 cup of sugar, then add about another 3/4 cups of sugar. So you should have a total of about 1 3/4 cups. I don’t measure precisely each time. You can add 2 cups, but that is a little too sweet for my taste.
Now when your tea has steeped, hold the tea bags by the strings and pour the hot tea on top of your sugar in the pitcher.
Run cold water over the bags in the pot, and swirl them around a little. Pour this water into the pitcher also.
Stir quickly, trying to incorporate as much of the sugar as you can.
Then fill the rest of the pitcher with cold water and stir again until all of the sugar is dissolved.
Refrigerate and enjoy!!
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Now I know it’s sacrilege, especially given for how long I lived in the South, but I’m just not a sweet tea kind of gal.
Your recipe looks good though and I like your methodology- I fully believe you make an excellent pitcher of sweet tea! Thanks so much for linking up!
Oh I’m so sorry y’all aren’t sweet tea fans!
Thank you for visiting!
Sweet Tea… not my thing.
Now, if you make it hot and add some cranberries or something… maybe. But I know I am WAY outnumbered by sweet tea lovers!
Oh no! I’m zero and two!
Maybe I’ll be more successful with the other courses.
I’m from Iowa-but I made your sweet tea-and I loved it! I added a little less sugar because I usually drink my hot tea unsweetened-but this is just great!! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Oh I’m so glad you tried it and liked it! Thanks for visiting!
Don’t feel bad~we love, love, love sweet tea around here!! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Yes, I knew I was going out on a limb not posting a before- or after-dinner drink! Thanks for stopping by!
I am from California and i love me some sweet tea (and they dont serve it anywhere!!!) !!! i am going to try this method soon, thanks!
Thanks, Raquel for stopping by.
I hope the tea works out well for you! (You’ll love it!)