Bobber'S Not Too Sweet Raspberry Ice Tea

• 9 tea bags (9 regular size or 3 family size hot brew tea bags, I prefer Lipton)
• 1 cup sugar (heaping)
• 1 quart boiling water
• 3 quarts cold water (or ice and water)
• 3/8 cup raspberry flavored syrup (I use a brand named DaVinci)

1. Boil 1 quart of water, remove from heat, add tea bags and steep for 20 minutes.
2. While tea is steeping, place sugar in 1 gallon container.
3. After steeping is complete, drain tea bags back into tea and discard bags.
4. Add hot steeped tea to sugar in 1 gallon container and stir well (until all the sugar dissolves).
5. Add about 3 quarts of cold/ice water to 1 gallon container, (leave a little room for the syrup) -- stir well.
6. Last, add 3/8 cup raspberry syrup to entire mixture and stir well. (Adding the syrup to the 1 quart of concentrated hot tea earlier results in a slight bitterness I did not like).
7. Place in refrigerator until well chilled, serve over ice -- Enjoy!

regular, sugar, water, cold water, raspberry flavored syrup

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/bobbers-not-too-sweet-raspberry-ice-tea-433491 (may not work)