...what is a good recipe for sweet tea? I tried a few off of google, but they were so-so. Anyone have a several generations old recipe they want to share?
Thanks in advance,
Jason
"I want to walk around in the woods, fish, and drink."
-Jim Harrison
Step 1: Fill up a 1 gal pitcher
Step 2: Grab the desired number of tea bags from the box
Step 3: ???????????
Step 4: Drive to Chick Fil A and buy 1 gallon of the best sweet tea on the planet
Step 1: Fill up a 1 gal pitcher
Step 2: Grab the desired number of tea bags from the box
Step 3: ???????????
Step 4: Drive to Chick Fil A and buy 1 gallon of the best sweet tea on the planet
"I want to walk around in the woods, fish, and drink."
-Jim Harrison
I think the best sweet tea on the planet was made by my grandmother in Jonesboro, Georgia.
Second best is probably at Milo's hamburger chain in Birmingham, Alabama.
Growing up, I never thought about there being a recipe. Make some strong Luziannne, dilute and sweeten to taste, add lemon.
I'm just amazed to see this thread, period... I gave up ordering sweet tea in restaurants around here years ago after one too many "WTF" looks.
Thanks for stirring up some great memories.
You bet! Hit me up to go fish, and I'll bring a jug of it. I s'pose it's my uptight yankee ways looking for a recipe. I think you're right. I'll tinker. Luzianne is the stuff, eh? Thanks.
"I want to walk around in the woods, fish, and drink."
-Jim Harrison
Sweet tea was one of the few things I truly enjoyed during my time in Virginia when I get sent back to Norfolk for work a few years ago. It seems to be surging in popularity around here the past couple years. Mcdonalds serving it, then I see Arizona and Nestea both have a sweet tea they are selling in the local stores. I get them from time to time. Not as good as the stuff I drank back east, but not too shabby either.
I always kinda dug on the DBT. Have had an album or 2 of theirs for quite a few years. I should break them out
For real sweet tea, get some good black tea, six bags, two quarts of water, 3 cups sugar. That how me Ma made it, that's how I drink it. Most northerners think it tastes too sweet, but in Memphis, that's how we make it. We used lipton black tea, it's real cheap and we always had a pitcher of it ready. Boil a cup of water, poour it over the tea and sugar in the pitcher, steep and then fill the pitcher with ice, fill it the rest of the way up with water. That's how you make sweet tea in the south.
My wife was originally born here, but mostly grew up in Georgia. She HATES sweet tea. But she has geographic tongue (can't remember the medical term for it) so sweet tea is too overpowering for her. But I did some traveling through the south when I was married to my exwife. I'm going to have to try NateTreat's method. I remember I LOVED the sweettea I had at some of the BBQ shacks I visited in Memphis.
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You bet! Hit me up to go fish, and I'll bring a jug of it. I s'pose it's my uptight yankee ways looking for a recipe. I think you're right. I'll tinker. Luzianne is the stuff, eh? Thanks.
Luzianne or Lipton, whatever is cheaper and stronger.
DBT are a good band although like most bands, they've changed over the last several years. They're from up in north 'Bama, Florence area IIRC. Although, from some comments I've heard, I think the singer might have lived in the same neighborhood that I did back when I was in school.
I keep after my wife to buy me a 'skynrd t-shirt but she say's it ain't happening outside the house. Mid-life crisis dude in an LS shirt, can't say I blame her!
My wife was originally born here, but mostly grew up in Georgia. She HATES sweet tea. B
I spent much of my youth in the south, and agree with your wife wholeheartedly. I'm also convinced that all that sugar is the catalyst that turns fried food into those enormous southern asses.
In Arizona we made "sun tea": 1/2 dozen black tea bags in a glass milk bottle full of water, leave in sun while gone to work, cool off in fridge, and add lemon from the tree in the back yard = going to the grave weighing less than 350 lbs.
You gotta play with it until it tastes good to you. I like it sweet, but not a substitute for dessert. A family recipe I've heard of used mollasses as an ingredient; not as a substitute for sugar, but for the taste.
-Chad Lewis from South Carolina
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Bring 2 qts of cold water to a boil. Place 2 family-sized tea bags in a container and add the boiling water. Let the tea steep for 3-5 min. Remove tea bags and add 1/2 to 1 C. of sugar and stir until sugar is dissolved. Let the tea cool to room temp. then serve over ice with lemon, lime or mint.
Best served the same day, discard after 3 days.
If you want to be authentic, use Luzianne tea. Lipton will work in a pinch.
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I had a neighbor lady a while back that used some bulk black tea. Boiled water, turn off and add the loose black tea leaves. Stirred until dark and then added molasses and a little ginger root fresh cut chunks. Then she added sugar [always seemed like a lot]. The aroma was fairly crisp. Then she poured a couple glasses of cold water in and pour the concoction through chees cloth and into a classic 1970's floral glass beverage dispenser [looks like the sun tea type, or a mini spodi dispenser]. She didn't dilute it any further, but wouldn't serve it until it was completely chilled and had to be served over a lot of ice. Do not add lemon until serving. She said the citrus loses something when it's not fresh. I remember it being a little strong so we would wait for the ice to melt a bit. It was amazingly refreshing though. Damn it, now I'm getting an itch for some.
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