Southern Sweet Tea

Due to popular demand...

Here's my best southern sweet tea recipe. You'll laugh, because after trying all the "exotic" sweeteners, I ended up sticking with sugar!! :)

• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups boiling water
• 6 tea bags (regular size, I do half decaf tea and half regular---hows that for a coffee lover?? Forget half caff lattes, I can make half caff sweet tea!!)
• 1/2 to 3/4 cup sugar (more or less, I do this to taste)
• 6 cups cold water (more or less, I actually gauge how much cool water to add by the color of the tea)

Steep baking soda, hot water, and tea for 10-15 minutes. Remove tea bags. Add sugar. Stir till dissolved. Add cold water. refrigerate and/or serve on ice.


This is PERFECT!! The baking soda keeps the tea from becoming bitter, so don't skip that step!

Enjoy!!

Sweet tea

My latest thing is sweet tea. Sweet iced tea, of course--with this humidity and heat, theres no way I could drink it hot!

But seriously though, sweet tea is IT!! I may have lived in the South less than a month, but already it's cool refreshingness has captured my fancy.

Big time.

I'm considering giving up Starbucks. And for this Seattle-native, thats quite a jump. At first, I'd just order it at restaurants (they serve it up here as frequently as water), and consume inordinate amounts at church potlucks... but now I'm making it myself. Having tried many varieties, and many sweetners, I think I've finally come up with the perfect blend... ah yes!!! Sweet satisfaction.

Who knows, I might be a southern girl yet!