At a recent bridal shower, we decided to freeze 100% tea into ice cube trays to add to our large tea dispenser to keep it cold and yet not to dilute it. I also froze some of my garden's spearmint leaves in a separate ice cube tray, in case anyone wanted to add it to their individual glasses!
Now that I think of it; raspberries, blueberries or even watermelon cubes could also be frozen as additions, just for fun!
(The photo is just to show you the cubes, taken after the party.)
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Use spaghetti sauce jars in the summer as tea jars. They are just the right size. Most people like to drink their cold ice tea from a jar in the south.
I like the health benefits of green tea, but I'm not too hip on the taste of it. To remedy this, when I make a half gallon of iced tea, I use 4 green tea bags and 4 regular (black) tea bags, instead of all regular tea bags.
If you run out of iced tea, you don't have to make a whole pitcher. Here's how to do it for one glass.
I like to drink tea, soda, etc. from the smaller bottles and an inexpensive way of having them ready to go is place your favorite teabag in the bottom of the bottle and fill with water and place in your fridge. Within a few hours, you have unsweetened tea ready to go without pouring or mixing anything.
The best way to make tea for me is to microwave a family size tea bag (I really like Tetley, Lipton seems to fall apart and tea leaves go everywhere) in a cup of water for a couple of minutes until it is boiling.
My husband used to drink a lot of bottled "iced tea" that was too sweet and too expensive. I weaned him off it by placing a dispenser jug from a thrift shop in the frig and keeping cold tea in it at all times.
When brewing iced tea, to take out some of the bitter taste, add a pinch of baking soda to the container.
When you get iced tea from a fast food place, it is often too strong. If you are at the take out window, ask for an extra cup of ice water or just a cup of ice - then you can use it to dilute the iced tea to make it more tasty.
I like the taste of flavored teas, but making iced tea with them can get expensive if you drink a lot of it like I do. My solution is to use anywhere from 1 to 4 flavored tea bags and 4 regular tea bags mixed together when making a half gallon of iced tea.
Every once in a while, I get Starbucks cappuccino or frappuccino at the grocery store. They come in nice glass bottles.
Iced tea will last longer once it is made if you store it in a sealed glass jar instead of a plastic pitcher.
