Summertime, Mint's A-growing....
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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.
Once tepid, add 1L lemon juice, fresh or bottled, 25cL lime juice, fresh or bottled, and 8oz/237mL all-natural vanilla extract, stirring to combine. Pour into pitchers and chill. Serve over ice, ideally outdoors on a day that's at least 85 degrees fahrenheit with humidity at at least 85, ganished with fresh mint from the garden or mint patch. We always grew peppermint, but spearmint can be nice too.
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.
Once tepid, add 1L lemon juice, fresh or bottled, 25cL lime juice, fresh or bottled, and 8oz/237mL all-natural vanilla extract, stirring to combine. Pour into pitchers and chill. Serve over ice, ideally outdoors on a day that's at least 85 degrees fahrenheit with humidity at at least 85, ganished with fresh mint from the garden or mint patch. We always grew peppermint, but spearmint can be nice too.
