SC - SC: OOP: Texas Tea

[Mike and Pat Luco]

 Well the tea recipe I learned to make at the tender age of 3 was so simple a child could do it.  You take a
sauce pan and fill it 3/4 full of cold tap water.  Place into it several Lipton's tea bags and turn the fire
on.  Let boil for several minutes until the color is so dark you can't see the bottom of the pan.  Turn off fire
and remove the tea bags, then place 2 cups of white cane sugar and stir till dissolved.  Pour this thick tea
into a glass pitcher and dilute with cold water till jus' right.  Its still made this way at the Lutherian
socials, the fireman's Bar-B-Q, and family reunions around these parts located 'n the rice fields and coastal
plains of Texas.

> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 06:12:53 PST
> From: "Bonne of Traquair" <oftraquair at hotmail.com>
> Subject: OOP -Iced Sweet Tea was Re: SC - Grits
>
> well, maybe not boiled with (boiling the tea leaves will bring out a
> bitterness no amount of sugar will correct) but both tea and sugar must
> be added as soon as the boiling water comes off the burner so as much
> sugar goes into solution as possible.  And then, the tea must steep so
> long that the end product is nearly as black as coffee.  None of this
> clear amber stuff.  When made very strong and very sweet those that like
> it less strong and sweet can add some water to their glass, or wait
> until the ice melts a bit.




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