Good to the last drop...

[ShallowsNole]

I'll have to try the recipe Miss Kitty posted - though it sounds way complicated. Sometimes I feel as though I spend most of my life making tea!

Tea in the Shallows (fits a half-gallon Rubbermaid pitcher):

1 family-size Luzianne (NO SUBSTITUTES) tea bag
Water
four scoops of sugar (a little less than one cup)

Heat both in a 1-qt saucepan. No need to boil, but does need to be fairly hot. Wait for it to get good and dark. Meanwhile, scoop the sugar into the bottom of the pitcher. First, take the tea bag out and mash it with your wooden spoon against the side of the pitcher, then stir in the tea from the pot. Add cold water to top, stirring constantly.

We go through at least two pitchers of this each day. We probably shouldn't; could be why we look the way we do. It's shocking at times to use a clear pitcher and look at exactly how much sugar goes in before the tea does.

 

[Mermaid]

Love it with lemon, and fresh mint. If I make a go cup of iced tea, people always look at the green stuff in the bottom of my cup.

I have a bumperload of mint growing in my garden. Do you want me to bring some down for you today? Speak now or forever hold your peace!

 

[NoHall]

I now make it with Splenda- not quite the same, but a change that had to be made...

Splenda. Tastes like sugar because it's made from sugar...

Sugar, sugar, sugar. Love me some sugar...

 

[seacrestkristi]

Luzianne and lots o sugar but I am trying to cut back on it just a little When I was a kid I knew this lady from NC who made great tea and she would put a pinch of baking soda, so I always have too. Funny how you pick little things up from folks you thru the years. I tried making the simple syrup route once and it tasted funny to me. I can't imagine why though? It was just sugar and water? We have tea and not soda around here. Maybe parties or when camping or holiday cook outs but that's about it.