The wife is a coonass in training. You gotta crawl before you walk, she tries. Sweet tea to her is a new invention however she is on it like a fly to a turd, geaux figure. I have not made sweet tea is soooooo long I just may have to retest for ma Cajun card so have mercy. From the TF clan, who might be the one to insert the best damn sweet tea fixins? By that, what do you use and how much? I would not want to be a hero and wing it the wrong way so please, purty please, help a brother out.
Iced tea should be strong and sweet. It doesn't have to be sugar, the Splenda works fine. The whole idea of sweet tea, though, is because sugar takes so long to dissolve in ice water, The steady tinkling of tea spoons was an annoyance to southern ladies at the table, so they put the sugar in hot and no one had to stir their tea.
At the cafe, we use the coffee brewer. Actually the waitresses do the tea. We use Community because they are our vendor for coffee and sell us a pre packaged tea inside a "filter pillow" so to speak. We use two bags of tea (double the amount) and press the button. Hot Abita springs tap water is pre measured and drips through the filters. As far as sweetening it we use Louisiana cane sugar. So to do it at home, just get good brand name tea, like Lipton and follow the directions for brewing it, but double the amount. then use sugar to sweeten it to taste. Poeple like it fairly sweet here but you're in California so it may be different. I'd brew some unsweet tea and just mix it to dilute the sugar. Don't use water if it's too sweet. and fresh tea only lasts 4 hours before it starts to get bitter so brew it hot and keep it chilled if you can. (freezing sems to stabilize it longer.) In Alabama, the best sweet tea is Milo's and I bet they have a website you can access. Bama may not be the center of the SEC football universe , but they do know sweet tea there. Trust Milo's advice.
Ditto. I can drink peach or rasberry tea when forced. Green tea in Japan was the worst. Gourmet teas (Earl Grey, Fruit teas, etc.) are a close second.
This comes as no shock. What is shocking is the fact that you even mentioned it to begin with. What I do admire the most is you never ending attention to detail.
i love sweet tea. i have a couple of ways of fixing it, one being the plain old luzianne tea brewed strong with just sugar or splenda added. the other way makes it a bit different and adds a bit of a spicey flavor to it, which i like, but i have a friend that will practically spit it out if i make it that way. so i wont even go there. (people that taste it either love it or hate it, no in between.) i love either way. so i just made some plain luzianne sweet tea and am sitting here sipping it now.
That is quite all right. I hold dear the fact that we can share a great steak and that nothing else would ruin the experience!
