Make Sweet Tea?

Yep! She's from the east coast! Our Saviour on a strange mode of transportation! Growing up in Maryland...you go over another kid's house in the 70s...the big red Kool-Aid Pitcher is on television! OH YEAH! OH YEAH! Kool-Aid sounds good!

"My momma made some..."

Go in the kitchen and pour it in the cup and you want to spit it in the sink, didn't have a lick of sugar in the damned thing! Water is water but when you add unsweetened Kool-Aid to it, it just tastes like nastiness to me.

Same with tea! That will make your face suck in on itself like some sort of amoeba gone mad. :D

Here is a good recipe for sweet tea, this is from Utah. Not quite the south. We call it Mormon Crack Tea up here. Funny thing...Mormons selling tea with caffeine in it - ANYWAY! CHIK-FIL-A SWEETENED TEA! :D
 
What about the Sweet tea at Chicken Express that stuff is SWEET.... and get it in a bucket to go.... put a straw in the top and has it's on pail handle .... to cool but again almost to sweet
 
Yea no nastea, get lipton or lousiaan (sp?) but nestea is horrible. ick no thanks. when i was up north they kept giving me this stuff and frankly no thanks.

oh yea my mom reminded me about, sun made tea don't add the sugar till its hot and your about to go chill it down, or else it could grow funky stuff while your letting it soak in.

another thing is yea steap , which if i recall is just before it boils thats where you want to keep it. if you do it to high and to long youll start pulling out tanins and other funky junk. that makes it like nestea....
 
R.A.T. said:
I sort of how this vision of your kids stirring the tea with their hands like the kids did in the movie Vacation! :D
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did you NOT read my response about keeping my kids in line! i'd beat their ass if they stuck their hands in the food/drink everyone was supposed to have. then i'd throw it away and start over!

and if i wanted the tea destroyed i'd pick n flick.:p
 
Mrs.Shotgunner11 said:
did you NOT read my response about keeping my kids in line! i'd beat their ass if they stuck their hands in the food/drink everyone was supposed to have. then i'd throw it away and start over!

and if i wanted the tea destroyed i'd pick n flick.:p
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It wasn't something I was too worried about, especially with some of the places I haunt.
 
Boats said:
C'mon Southerners, help me out please. I got hooked to the stuff while in the Navy, and every summer I try to make my own going off of memory, but it is inconsistent, some tries being closer than others. What is the actual way that authentic sweet tea is made as regards the ratio of the ingredients?
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Hi Boats. Down Arkansas way we bring 4 tea bags to boil in a sauce pan. Pour Hot tea into a gallon pitcher, add 3/4 cup sugar, stir until sugar is desolved, add a quart of ice then fill pitcher up with cold water and enjoy. Some people like to add lemon, some don't
 
For a little extra flavor, get some mint extract and put just three drops in (no more!). It will add just a slight, refreshing aftertaste.

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Thanks for all of the tips. My wife is going to balk at all of that sugar getting pumped into three rugrats. The good news is that I have stevia extract and a conversion guide so I can cut the sugar amount down.

Speaking of stevia, evidently in some spots in South America, yerba mate is made with the aid of stevia extract, processed from the leaves of an herb which yields a substance that is up to 300 times sweeter than sugar by volume. Has anyone ever encountered the unprocessed stevia leaf?

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well you start with tea bags two cups of sugar and fresh shrooms picked straight from cow patties first thing in the mourning while the due is still on the ground.......oh shit backflash to high school.......Drew
 
We do what texastony does, but we use 2 family size tea bags and 1 cup sugar in a 1 gallon jar. You can also add a scoop of instant raspberry tea mix to make it special.
 
Bring as much water as your tea pot can hold to a boil.

Pour into a plastic 2 quart pitcher with 3 family size Lousianne tea bags.

Let steep for ten minutes.

Remove tea bags.

Stir in 3/4 cup of sugar until disolved.

All cold water to make two quarts while continuing to stir.

Pour into ice filled glass.

Enjoy.
 
I suggest anyone who likes their tea with lemon try it with lime.
I find it to be superior.

And I suggest anyone who hasn't tried tea with lemon or lime do so. :p

(Cut a thin wheel or wedge and toss it in the mug, the oils in the peal are important.)
 
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