Sweet Tea - Page 4

Margies3 · #31 08-11-2007, 10:04 PM

Thank you, everyone!!

I didn't know if you added the sugar to the water while the tea was steeping or if you waited until after you had it steeped before adding the sugar. This helps alot. I think I'm going to have to make me a pitcher of tea tomorrow. I need to drink something besides diet pop all the time, that's for sure!

tamor · #32 08-11-2007, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Thank you, everyone!!

I didn't know if you added the sugar to the water while the tea was steeping or if you waited until after you had it steeped before adding the sugar. This helps alot. I think I'm going to have to make me a pitcher of tea tomorrow. I need to drink something besides diet pop all the time, that's for sure!

Especially in hot weather. Soft drinks just don't do it. I don't like tea but I have been drinking lots of water and koolaid. I think it actually hit 106 here today. We are in a serious heatwave and it's miserable.

Margies3 · #33 08-11-2007, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by tamor

Especially in hot weather. Soft drinks just don't do it. I don't like tea but I have been drinking lots of water and koolaid. I think it actually hit 106 here today. We are in a serious heatwave and it's miserable.

It was a bit cooler here today - finally!! It's been HOT.

I've been buying flavored waters. You should see my kids down those! I cannot keep up with the demand! But I am really bad with diet pops. It's a habit I've been considering working on. I'm getting closer and closer. So maybe if I start drinking the sweet tea instead. By the way, does Splenda work as well as sugar? Has anyone tried that?

tamor · #34 08-11-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

It was a bit cooler here today - finally!! It's been HOT.

I've been buying flavored waters. You should see my kids down those! I cannot keep up with the demand! But I am really bad with diet pops. It's a habit I've been considering working on. I'm getting closer and closer. So maybe if I start drinking the sweet tea instead. By the way, does Splenda work as well as sugar? Has anyone tried that?

Yeah, alot of folks down here do Splenda and Sweet-n-Low. My hubby drinks unsweet and uses the artificial sweeteners because he's diabetic and won't drink sugared drinks. My kids put sweeteners in sweet tea to make them even sweeter!

seguidordejesus · #35 08-11-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

It was a bit cooler here today - finally!! It's been HOT.

I've been buying flavored waters. You should see my kids down those! I cannot keep up with the demand! But I am really bad with diet pops. It's a habit I've been considering working on. I'm getting closer and closer. So maybe if I start drinking the sweet tea instead. By the way, does Splenda work as well as sugar? Has anyone tried that?

I think the taste of Splenda is pretty close (much better than SweetnLow, etc!) but not quite as satisfying, if you know what I mean. I used it for quite a while and dropped a few pounds b/c of not consuming so much sugar.

Sherri · #36 08-11-2007, 10:17 PM

Tupperware used to make a great little tea bag squeezer. I think I got it as a party favor one time, and I absolutely have used it weekly at least, for the past 25 years. I don't know if they still make them, but it's worth checking out.

By the way, Margie, I put the 3 family size bags in a small pyrex pot of water and bring it to a rolling boil and immediately turn it off and let it steep in the pot. Meanwhile, I heat 2 cups of water in a glass measuring cup in the microwave for 3 minutes. I pour that over 1 & 1/2 cups of sugar in a gallon pitcher and stir it up real well before I ever add the tea to it. The sugar is really easy to dissolve that way. After a few minutes I squeeze the tea bags and pour the concentrated tea mixture into the sugar water. Stir and then add ice and water to fill up the pitcher. Voila!

Oh, and I only use Lipton or Luzanne (sp.). I won't use store brands or Nestea. I HATE NESTEA!!!

seguidordejesus · #37 08-11-2007, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Tupperware used to make a great little tea bag squeezer. I think I got it as a party favor one time, and I absolutely have used it weekly at least, for the past 25 years. I don't know if they still make them, but it's worth checking out.

By the way, Margie, I put the 3 family size bags in a small pyrex pot of water and bring it to a rolling boil and immediately turn it off and let it steep in the pot. Meanwhile, I heat 2 cups of water in a glass measuring cup in the microwave for 3 minutes. I pour that over 1 & 1/2 cups of sugar in a gallon pitcher and stir it up real well before I ever add the tea to it. The sugar is really easy to dissolve that way. After a few minutes I squeeze the tea bags and pour the concentrated tea mixture into the sugar water. Stir and then add ice and water to fill up the pitcher. Voila!

Oh, and I only use Lipton or Luzanne (sp.). I won't use store brands or Nestea. I HATE NESTEA!!!

sounds complicated!!!

Margies3 · #38 08-11-2007, 10:25 PM

My grandma drank iced tea alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the time!! She would only use Luzianne and occasionally Lipton. But she agreed with you - never Nestea.

She never made hers sweet tea tho.

When I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let me have iced tea because of the caffeine. But Grandma would. She would put about 1/4 glass of tea, fill it to the 3/4 line with milk and add sugar and ice. That's the only way she allowed me to drink tea. And she got away with it with my mom because I refused to drink straight milk. So Grandma would tell her that at least she was getting some milk into me. I did like the tea that way.

The other thing I remember is that Grandma always drank her tea with a lemon wedge squeezed in it. AFter she would squeeze the lemon wedge, we kids would fight over who got it. Then we'd eat the pulp and whatever juice was left.

Well, folks this has been fun. Thanks for teaching me a new trick. But now I have to

I'm reading a good book and I want to read a little before I fall asleep.

Have fun!!

rgcraig · #39 08-11-2007, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

My wife says she boils two family size tea bags into a pot of water for 10 minutes,boil on low, then take you a gallon pitcher ,put a cup of sugar in it, pour the boiling tea into the sugar, throw the tea bags out ,stir and fill the remainder of the pitcher up with water.

Eeewww - - taste completely different when you do that. I use to work for Lipton and they taught me not to boil the tea bags because it causes the acid in the tea to take over the flavor of the tea.

We were at a family event and I was telling them this and they didn't believe it would taste different, so we did it both ways and taste tested it and couldn't believe the difference.

Sherri · #40 08-11-2007, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

Eeewww - - taste completely different when you do that. I use to work for Lipton and they taught me not to boil the tea bags because it causes the acid in the tea to take over the flavor of the tea.

We were at a family event and I was telling them this and they didn't believe it would taste different, so we did it both ways and taste tested it and couldn't believe the difference.

I've always heard to turn the burner off as soon as it starts to boil, but I do put the tea bags in from the very first. Maybe I shouldn't. Hmmm....