Summertime, Mint's A-growing....

and melted_snowball can't find loose tea at his local Safeway. I just had to share my mother's iced tea recipe as a result of that post. So here it is:

To 10 gallons/40L of water in a pot with a lid, add ~18, give or take, tea bags or about 1 1/8 C or 0.27L of loose tea in cheescloth, and swirl them around a few times to thoroughly saturate them, then secure them to the pot handle with string once saturated, place the lid on the pot. Go to bed.

Now that you've had a good night's sleep, has the tea been steeping for at least 12 hours? If not, let it sit until it's been at least 12 hours, then bring it to a low simmer. Once at a low simmer, remove the tebags/cheesecloath and stir in 0.75 lb/0.3kg sugar. Turn off the heat and allow the tea to cool to tepid or so.

( Yes, it really does say 'natural vanilla extract'... )

ganished with fresh mint from the garden or mint patch. We always grew peppermint, but spearmint can be nice too.