Make Your Own Iced Tea
For the past couple of summers now I’ve brewed my own iced tea and I LOVE it! I find my homemade iced tea so much better than the powdered iced tea mix I always used to buy. You just let your tea bags steep for about an hour, add your flavorings, and you’ve made your own delicious iced tea!
I always have these ingredients on hand and that, by the way, is why I love the “make your own” type of recipes. Even though the powdered mixes were designed to be convenient, I think that true convenience is being able to look at your pantry staples and know how to combine them into a variety of different things so you can skip having to run out to the store for the supposedly convenient premixed stuff.
To make this homemade iced tea, I boil 2 quarts (8 cups) of water in my tea kettle and then remove it from the heat. I then add three tea bags to the hot water and let it steep for at least an hour. After that’s done, all that’s left to do is add some lemon juice and sugar and put the iced tea in the refrigerator to cool.
Well maybe that’s not all that’s left to do because you still have to pour yourself a big tall glass of iced tea and go relax!
More homemade drinks to try:
Homemade Iced Tea
Ingredients:
- 8 cups water (2 quarts)
- 3 tea bags
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 oz lemon juice (1/3 cup + 2 tbl)
Instructions:
- Boil the 2 quarts of water in a tea kettle and then remove from the heat.
- Add the 3 tea bags to the boiled water and let the tea steep for at least an hour. Remove and dispose of the tea bags when the tea is done steeping.
- Add the sugar and lemon juice and stir to mix and dissolve the sugar.
- Chill the iced tea before serving.
