Simple Iced Tea
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There are a lot of ways to make iced tea. I find this to be the easiest and quickest way.
Ingredients
- Water
- 5 Tea Bags
- Sugar or Sweetener to taste
- Optionally, you add some fresh fruit like lemon slices or raspberries.
Instructions
- Bring a kettle of water to boil.
- Place the tea bags and sweetener in a gallon pitcher (we like to use a Rubbermaid gallon pitcher because it can handle the boiling water)
- We like to use 4 regular black tea bags and 1 flavored herbal tea such as raspberry or apple/cinnamon
- We use two sweetener packets to a gallon because we like it to be just subtly sweet. You can use more or less.
- When the water comes to a boil, pour it over the tea bags in the pitcher.
- Let the tea steep for 10-20 minutes.
- Remove the tea bags (I like to give them a squeeze to get all of the flavor out!)
- Add a large number of ice cubes to the pitcher, and then fill the rest of the way with cold water and stir.