Taste USA: Iced tea

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Iced Citrus Tea

How to Make Iced Citrus Tea Recipe - preparation 15 minutes plus infusing and cooling

Serves 6

Ingredients:
5 strong tea bags
1.2 litres/2 pints/5 cups boiling water
1–2 tbsp sugar
a few fresh mint sprigs
juice of 2 lemons
juice of 1 orange
ice cubes

Method:
1 Put the tea bags in a large teapot or jug and pour the boiling water over. Sweeten with sugar and add some mint.

2 Cover and set aside to infuse for 20 minutes. Discard the tea bags and, when the tea is cold, remove the mint.

3 Pour the cold tea into a large jug and stir in the lemon and orange juice.

4 Add some ice and sprigs of mint. Serve in six tall glasses.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Restaurant Sonic Cherry Limeade

How to make Restaurant Sonic Cherry Limeade Recipe

Serves 1

Ingredients:
1 c Sprite
1/4 c cherry juice,(Libby is good)
2 lime wedges,(each 1/8 lime),up to 3

Method:
Pour Sprite into a glass over ice.

Add cherry juice.

Add 2-3 lime wedges, squeezing slightly before dropping each one in.

Snapple Iced Tea (Lemon Flavor)

How to make Snapple Iced Tea (Lemon Flavor) Recipe

Makes 2 quarts

Ingredients:
2 qt water,(8 cups)
3 Lipton tea bags,(orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea blend)
3/4 c granulated sugar
1/3 c plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method:
Boil the water in a large saucepan over high heat.

When the water comes to a rapid boil, turn off the heat, put the tea bags into the water, and cover.

After the tea has steeped about 1 hour, pour the sugar into a 2-quart pitcher, then add the tea. The tea should still be warm, so the sugar will dissolve easily.

Add the lemon juice. Chill.

T.G.I. Friday's Long Island Iced Tea

How to make T.G.I. Friday's Long Island Iced Tea recipe - Friday's claims they invented this famous cocktail. Be careful with this recipe, it is powerful.

SERVES 1

Ingredients:
½ ounce gin
½ ounce vodka
½ ounce rum
½ ounce Triple Sec
2 ounces sweet and sour mix
Splash of cola

Method:
Mix all the ingredients in a shaker.

Pour over ice and top with cola.

Long Island Iced Tea:
This drink was first served in the mid-1970s at a bar in Long Island, New York, thus the name. The drink has a much higher alcohol concentration than most cocktails. Read More

Snapple Iced Tea

How to make Snapple Iced Tea Recipe

LEMON:
8 c Water
3 Lipton tea bags (orange Pekoe and pekoe cut black Tea blend)
3/4 c Granulated sugar OR 16 oz Bottle light corn syrup
1/3 c Plus 2 T lemon juice

DIET LEMON:
8 c Water
3 Lipton tea bags (orange
Pekoe and pekoe cut black
Tea blend)
12 1-gram envelopes Sweet'nLow OR Equal sweetener.
1/3 c Plus 1 T Lemon juice

ORANGE:
8 c Water
3 Lipton tea bags (orange Pekoe and pekoe cut black Tea blend)
3/4 c Granulated sugar OR 16 oz Bottle light corn syrup
1/3 c Lemon juice
1/8 t Orange extract

STRAWBERRY:
8 c Water
3 Lipton tea bags (orange Pekoe and pekoe cut black Tea blend)
3/4 c Granulated sugar OR 16 oz Bottle light corn syrup
1/3 c Plus 1 T lemon juice
1 T Strawberry extract

CRANBERRY:
8 c Water
3 Lipton tea bags (orange Pekoe and pekoe cut black Tea blend)
3/4 c Granulated sugar OR 16 oz Bottle light corn syrup
1/3 c Plus 2 T lemon juice
2 T Ocean Spray cranberry
Juice cocktail concentrate

Method:
For any of the flavors, boil the water in a large saucepan.

When the water comes to a rapid boil, turn off the heat, put the tea bags into the water, and cover.

After the tea has brewed about 1 hour, pour the sugar or sweetener into a 2-quart pitcher, then add the tea. The tea should still be warm, so the sugar or sweetener will dissolve easily.

Add the flavoring ingredients(plus additional water if needed to bring the tea to the 2-quart line). Chill. Read More