How To make iced tea?  A very  Simple recipes to make perfect homemade iced tea, including Thai iced tea, lemon iced tea, baking soda iced tea, rasberry and sweet iced tea.

Lemon Iced Tea Recipe

Ingridients: For 2 quarts of water, we’ll need 3/4 cup (150 g) sugar, 2 ounces (60 mL) lemon juice, and two bags of black tea. The lemon juice can be fresh or bottled juice.

How to make :
Bring two quarts of water to a rolling boil.
Drop the two tea bags into the water and remove from heat. Cover with a lid and allow steeping for at least 1 hour.
Although, in general, black teas should not be steeped for this long because of the excessive release of bitter tannins,
this did not seem to be an issue when brewing this much tea with only two bags.

Iced Tea - pitcher

Using more bags with a shorter steep time generated a different flavor profile that did not blend as nicely with the lemon juice
Once the tea has been sufficiently steeped, remove the tea bags and add the sugar and lemon juice. Stir until the sugar completely dissolves.
Pour tea into a pitcher and add ice cubes until the volume has returned to two quarts.
Refrigerate until completely chilled (at least four hours) before serving.

Thai Iced Tea Recipe

Ingridients :

4 tea bags (such as Assam, Orange Pekoe, Ceylon, etc..) or  4 tsp. loose black tea (e.g. Lipton’s Yellow Label)
4 cups boiling water
juice of 1 fresh lime or lemon
1 inch piece galangal or  ginger, grated
1/4 to 1/3 cup white sugar (taste-test for sweetness, adding more sugar as desired), or equivalent of syrup
pinch of salt
ice cubes or crushed ice
1-2 drops jasmine essence (optional) note :available in tiny bottles at Asian/Chinese food stores)
garnish: slices of fresh lime or lemon and sprigs of fresh mint or basil

How to make:
Boil 4 cups water in a pot on the stove (I use a pot instead of a kettle, which makes adding the other ingredients easier).
Add the loose tea or tea bags. Stir well. Allow tea to steep for at least 5-6 minutes while you add the other ingredients.
Grate the galangal or ginger into the tea (it doesn’t have to be grated too finely, as the larger pieces will be strained out later). Stir well.
Add the sugar or syrup, starting with 1/4 cup. Stir to dissolve. Taste-test for sweetness,
adding more sugar (1-2 Tbsp. at a time) until your desired sweetness level is reached.
Squeeze the lime or lemon juice into the tea, and add a pinch of salt. Stir well.
If using, add 1-2 drops of jasmine essence. Note: Be careful not to add much more than 2 drops, or your iced tea will turn out too “perfumed”.
If you have been using tea bags, use a spoon to press them to the side of the bowl before removing them (to extract as much of the tea as possible).
Using a strainer and a ladle, strain the tea into a jug. Place jug in the refrigerator for an hour, or until tea is cold.
If you want to enjoy the tea right away, strain into glasses filled with ice.
Garnish the glasses with fresh lime slices and sprigs of fresh mint or sweet basil.

Raspberry Iced Tea Recipe

Ingredients

* 4 quarts water
* 1 1/2 cups sugar
* 1 (12 ounce) package frozen unsweetened raspberries
* 10 individual tea bags
* 1/4 cup lemon juice

How to make :
1  In a large kettle or Dutch oven, bring water and sugar to a boil. Remove from the heat; stir until sugar is dissolved.
Add the raspberries, tea bags and lemon juice. Cover and steep for 3 minutes. Strain; discard berries and tea bags.
2 Transfer tea to a large container or pitcher. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over

Baking Soda Iced Tea Recipe

Ingredients
6 regular-size tea bags (”You can use Orange Pekoe, Oolong, green tea, Lipton — pick your favorite.”)
1/8 teaspoon baking soda (a good pinch)
2 cups boiling water
6 cups cold water
Granulated sugar or other sweetener to taste (optional)

Directions
1. In a glass measuring cup or ceramic teapot large enough to accommodate the boiling water, place the tea bags and baking soda. Pour the boiling water over the tea bags. Cover and let steep for 15 minutes.
2. Remove the tea bags, being careful not to squeeze them (squeezing the bags will add bitterness).
3. Pour the concentrate into a two-quart pitcher and add the cold water. Sweeten, if desired. (Some Southerners put in as much as 1 1/2 cups of sugar.)
4. Let cool, then chill and serve over ice.
Makes two quarts.

Hints : Tea will become cloudy if refrigerated while still warm. Add a little boiling water to clear up the cloudiness.
The tannins in tea also cause cloudiness when the tea is brewed in hard water. If you know you have minerals in your water, use bottled or filtered water.

Sweet Iced Tea  Recipe

2 c. water
2 family size tea bags
1 1/2 c. to 2 c. sugar

Bring cold water to boil. Add tea bags, cover and turn off fire. Let set for couple minutes. Pour sugar into gallon pitcher. Add hot tea and mix. Fill with cold water stirring constantly.

Enjoy your homemade iced tea !

Related posts:

1. Tea Recipes – Various Hot Tea and Chai Tea Recipe
2. Chai Tea Recipe

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