Iced tea
When you need to cool down on a blistering hot day, make an iced tea and you will feel instantly refreshed.
Ingredients
- 4 cups boiling hot water
- 4 teabags
- sugar to taste
- 4 cups ice water or ice cubes
- 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- In a large pitcher, place tea bags and pour boiling hot water over them. Leave to steep for 5 minutes or more.
- Remove the teabags and discard them.
- Add sugar, stir to dissolve and leave to cool for about 30 minutes.
- Add lemon juice and 4 cups of ice water or ice cubes and enjoy.
- For lemon iced tea, add lemon rind with the hot water.
- For the fresh lemon juice and fresh fruits add after steeping, and leave in the refrigerator for about 2-3 hours to infuse.
Notes
Note
- The needs to be strong initially because you are going to dilute it with either ice cold water or ice cubes.
- If using sugar to sweeten your iced tea, add it when the tea is still piping hot.
- If you need to sweeten it when it is already cold, it is best to use sugar syrup.
- Granulated sugar will be very difficult to dissolve in cold tea and your tea won't be smooth.
- If you want a stronger tea, it is better to increase the number of tea bags used rather than increase the steeping time of the tea. This is for better flavour.
- If you want lighter tea, reduce the steeping time but not the quantity of tea bags.
- Putting hot tea in the refrigerator makes it go cloudy, nothing wrong with the taste just that the presentation won't be very pretty.
