primitives discuss making sweet tea

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115712744

Oh my.

Viva_La_Revolution (25,739 posts)

How do you make Sweet Tea?

My ex-mother-in-law taught me

put 8 or so lipton tea bags in about a quart of water and slow-boil it till you can smell it at the other end of the house.

remove the teabags and dump in a crapload of sugar. dilute with water to desired strength (still very strong) and pour over ice.

I've adjusted this by using 1/4 cup of raw wildflower honey instead of sugar. It adds great flavor.

How do you do it?

NYC_SKP (42,357 posts)

1. Those directions are SO like my grandmother's....

Love it.

Don't have a recipe myself but am always loving individualized recipes.

cbayer (109,560 posts)

2. I make a simple syrup from cane sugar.

That way I don't get any undissolved sugar in the bottom of the jar.

I used to make sun tea, but found it "turns" too quickly, so I now use boiling water.

I like to throw in a couple of mint or other herb based tea bags for flavoring.

You have inspired me! I am going to make some sweet tea today.

Lucinda (15,151 posts)

3. To make one pitcher:

3 bags of family size Luzianne tea

3/4 cup sugar
Water (about 1/2 full of a medium sized saucepan)
Pot w/ lid

Dissolve sugar in water as it comes to a rolling boil.
Turn off heat.
Add teabags.
Cover
Let sit 30 minutes
Pour into pitcher and add cold water to fill it the rest of the way.

Perfect every time.

No way.

Sweetened tea sucks; it tastes nothing like tea.

franksolich just takes water, ice, and a spoonful of granulated tea from a jar of Lipton's iced-tea mix, stirs it, and presto! iced-tea, no mess, no fuss.  And in seconds.

[Chris_]

Sweetened tea sucks; it tastes nothing like tea.

Bless your heart.

[Skul]

Skul's sweet tea recipe.
1) throw bags in water and let it turn brown.
2) take out bags and throw them away.
3) add sugar till it tastes sweet.
4) dump on flowers outside
5) have a couple shots of whiskey
Hey, works for me.

[Bad Dog]

I'm with Frank on this one.  Some people really take a lot of pleasure in tea making (hot or cold) rituals.  My sister drives me nuts sometimes whilst making tea.

[Freeper]

1 Pull out 2 family size tea bags from the pantry.
2 Pull the lid off the tea kettle, realize that it needs to be washed because last time I left just a little liquid in it and it has molded.
3 Wash the tea kettle.
4 Fill tea kettle with water.
5 Look all around kitchen to see where I set the tea bags down at, give up looking and get 2 more.
6 Turn on burner and set kettle on burner.
7 See the 2 bags from earlier that I couldn't find.
8. Have a seat at the laptop and check out CC while the tea is heating up.
9. Run back into kitchen because the tea kettle is boiling over and getting tea all over the stove.
10. Wipe off stove.
11 Find pitcher.
12 Wash pitcher because it is full of mold too.
13. Pour Splenda into the pitcher.
14. Pour tea into pitcher.
15 Put cover on pitcher.
16 Grab a glass, open freezer and see that none of the ice cube trays are in the freezer.
17. Find ice trays stacked up near sink, rinse them out and fill them.
18. Put ice trays full of water in freezer.
19. Grab glass fill it with tap water and leave kitchen.
20. Hours later go downstairs to get some ice tea, and find that the pitcher is still on the counter, forgot to put it in the fridge.
21. Finally put ice in glass pour in tea and enjoy.
22 Forget to refill ice trays and forget to put tea in the fridge.

 

[JohnnyReb]

1 Pull out 2 family size tea bags from the pantry.
2 Pull the lid off the tea kettle, realize that it needs to be washed because last time I left just a little liquid in it and it has molded.
3 Wash the tea kettle.
4 Fill tea kettle with water.
5 Look all around kitchen to see where I set the tea bags down at, give up looking and get 2 more.
6 Turn on burner and set kettle on burner.
7 See the 2 bags from earlier that I couldn't find.
8. Have a seat at the laptop and check out CC while the tea is heating up.
9. Run back into kitchen because the tea kettle is boiling over and getting tea all over the stove.
10. Wipe off stove.
11 Find pitcher.
12 Wash pitcher because it is full of mold too.
13. Pour Splenda into the pitcher.
14. Pour tea into pitcher.
15 Put cover on pitcher.
16 Grab a glass, open freezer and see that none of the ice cube trays are in the freezer.
17. Find ice trays stacked up near sink, rinse them out and fill them.
18. Put ice trays full of water in freezer.
19. Grab glass fill it with tap water and leave kitchen.
20. Hours later go downstairs to get some ice tea, and find that the pitcher is still on the counter, forgot to put it in the fridge.
21. Finally put ice in glass pour in tea and enjoy.
22 Forget to refill ice trays and forget to put tea in the fridge.

 

If you ever need a roommate, I got a friend that will fit right in there....and he never uses the same glass or cup for refills and then wonders why they aren't clean ones in the cabinet.

He stayed with me awhile when we were both first divorced. I didn't know I had so many cups and glasses until I quit washing them.

[Skul]

1 Pull out 2 family size tea bags from the pantry.
2 Pull the lid off the tea kettle, realize that it needs to be washed because last time I left just a little liquid in it and it has molded.
3 Wash the tea kettle.
4 Fill tea kettle with water.
5 Look all around kitchen to see where I set the tea bags down at, give up looking and get 2 more.
6 Turn on burner and set kettle on burner.
7 See the 2 bags from earlier that I couldn't find.
8. Have a seat at the laptop and check out CC while the tea is heating up.
9. Run back into kitchen because the tea kettle is boiling over and getting tea all over the stove.
10. Wipe off stove.
11 Find pitcher.
12 Wash pitcher because it is full of mold too.
13. Pour Splenda into the pitcher.
14. Pour tea into pitcher.
15 Put cover on pitcher.
16 Grab a glass, open freezer and see that none of the ice cube trays are in the freezer.
17. Find ice trays stacked up near sink, rinse them out and fill them.
18. Put ice trays full of water in freezer.
19. Grab glass fill it with tap water and leave kitchen.
20. Hours later go downstairs to get some ice tea, and find that the pitcher is still on the counter, forgot to put it in the fridge.
21. Finally put ice in glass pour in tea and enjoy.
22 Forget to refill ice trays and forget to put tea in the fridge.

 

No whiskey?? Bloody heathen.

[Freeper]

If you ever need a roommate, I got a friend that will fit right in there....and he never uses the same glass or cup for refills and then wonders why they aren't clean ones in the cabinet.

He stayed with me awhile when we were both first divorced. I didn't know I had so many cups and glasses until I quit washing them.

Actually that post is like 0bama's biographies, it's a composite of events.  

I make my wife make my tea and if she does it wrong she gets a beating. Because I'm a conservative and we hate women.  

My wife would kill me if she knew I said that.  

[JakeStyle]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115712744

Sweetened tea sucks; it tastes nothing like tea.

franksolich just takes water, ice, and a spoonful of granulated tea from a jar of Lipton's iced-tea mix, stirs it, and presto! iced-tea, no mess, no fuss.  And in seconds.

I agree, can't stand sweetened tea.

[Freeper]

No whiskey?? Bloody heathen.

My body is a temple.

Well maybe a temple to Buddha.  

[Revolution]

1 Pull out 2 family size tea bags from the pantry.
2 Pull the lid off the tea kettle, realize that it needs to be washed because last time I left just a little liquid in it and it has molded.
3 Wash the tea kettle.
4 Fill tea kettle with water.
5 Look all around kitchen to see where I set the tea bags down at, give up looking and get 2 more.
6 Turn on burner and set kettle on burner.
7 See the 2 bags from earlier that I couldn't find.
8. Have a seat at the laptop and check out CC while the tea is heating up.
9. Run back into kitchen because the tea kettle is boiling over and getting tea all over the stove.
10. Wipe off stove.
11 Find pitcher.
12 Wash pitcher because it is full of mold too.
13. Pour Splenda into the pitcher.
14. Pour tea into pitcher.
15 Put cover on pitcher.
16 Grab a glass, open freezer and see that none of the ice cube trays are in the freezer.
17. Find ice trays stacked up near sink, rinse them out and fill them.
18. Put ice trays full of water in freezer.
19. Grab glass fill it with tap water and leave kitchen.
20. Hours later go downstairs to get some ice tea, and find that the pitcher is still on the counter, forgot to put it in the fridge.
21. Finally put ice in glass pour in tea and enjoy.
22 Forget to refill ice trays and forget to put tea in the fridge.

 

Best...recipe....EVER!

[Chris_]

If I want sweet tea, I go to the store and buy a jug for 99 cents.  Unfortunately, it's a buck-eighty now that the Magic Negro is in charge.

It's a Big Tea conspiracy.

[Freeper]

I agree, can't stand sweetened tea.

When Teh Rove installs me as king I will round up those of you who can't stand sweet tea, along with the turkey bacon eating heathens.  

[zeitgeist]

Bless your heart.

 

[Revolution]

If I want sweet tea, I go to the store and buy a jug for 99 cents.  Unfortunately, it's a buck-twenty five now that the Magic Negro is in charge.

Arizona sweet tea. Yum!

[Freeper]

If I want sweet tea, I go to the store and buy a jug for 99 cents.  Unfortunately, it's a buck-eighty now that the Magic Negro is in charge.

It's a Big Tea conspiracy.

You can afford store bought sweet tea? Damn 1 percenter.  

[Chris_]

You can afford store bought sweet tea? Damn 1 percenter.  

I like to oppress the proletariat.  Have you tried Milo's?  It's tasty.

[Skul]

Dang pack 'o whiskey haters in this thread.
I'm going to my room and taking my bottle with me.

[JohnnyReb]

Dang pack 'o whiskey haters in this thread.
I'm going to my room and taking my bottle with me.

Put a nipple on the bottle and tell Bloombug you're breast feeding.

[Skul]

Put a nipple on the bottle and tell Bloombug you're breast feeding.

Oh hell yes. 

[vesta111]

Oh hell yes. 

EX MIL made tea every day,  She had a ceramic 1 pt. Tea pot, filled it with boiling water added 6-7 tea bags and let it set for 2 hours or so.  Darn stuff came close to syrup thick as heck.   She added cold water and ice cubes to the glasses and poured in the concoxion until the color was about right.

After 30+ years when I look back on dinners at her home all I can remember is the constant ding ding of all the glasses of tea as the sugar was added and stirred for 3-4 minutes.    This became a ritual, no one spoke as the tea was stirred-----Taste was OK, only time I used sugar in ice tea.

[Undies]

EX MIL made tea every day,  She had a ceramic 1 pt. Tea pot, filled it with boiling water added 6-7 tea bags and let it set for 2 hours or so.  Darn stuff came close to syrup thick as heck.   She added cold water and ice cubes to the glasses and poured in the concoxion until the color was about right.

After 30+ years when I look back on dinners at her home all I can remember is the constant ding ding of all the glasses of tea as the sugar was added and stirred for 3-4 minutes.    This became a ritual, no one spoke as the tea was stirred-----Taste was OK, only time I used sugar in ice tea.

Sweet tea sucks....even grandma's.