Southern Sweet Iced Tea, Hotel Style
- 12 cups cold water
- 15 cups boiling water
- 3 12 cups sugar
- 14 tablespoon baking soda
- 4 family-size tea bags
- Gather supplies for tea.
- Realize that you are missing a measuring cup, and your pitcher is broken.
- Find replacement tools (coffee pot works great for measuring cup, and glass beer jugs for pitchers, and an automotive funnel to compensate for lack of a pitcher with a wide opening).
- Carefully measure 2 cups water using coffee pot, bring to a boil.
- Prepare 2 cups of sugar, funnel into large beer jug.
- Pour boiling water into coffee pot, realize you are now down to 1 cup of water-oh yea, vapor-- ooops.
- Fill pot back up, bring to a boil again.
- Carefully pour boiling water into coffee pot till you hit the 2 cup mark.
- Add in Two"family size tea bags" and a pinch of baking soda, place lid on coffee pot, place beer jug on top to cover most of the holes.
- After 15 minutes, remove tea bags, do not squeeze into pot, discard.
- Use funnel to add lukewarm teawater to sugar mix, ponder how bad of an idea it is to try to dissolve 2 cups of sugar into 2 cups of warm water.
- Cap beer jug, shake furiously, realize it is only halfway dissolved, fret.
- Pour mixture back into the coffee pot, stir vigorously.
- Decide the lukewarm water is what is killing you, place pot onto the coffee machine, turn on to heat water.
- Remove occasionally to check water warmth, stir often.
- Pour concentrated mixture into funnel aimed into another beer jug, with 6 cups of cold water.
- Cap, and shake well.
- Serve over ice.
- Cough due to sever sugar content, resolve to make the next batch better.
- Add water to put, bring to a boil.
- Measure 1 1/2 cups of sugar, and pour into ceramic beer stein.
- When water is boiling use coffee pot to measure two cups.
- Gently pour into beer stein, stir vigorously till sugar is dissolved, do a small victory dance.
- Add a pinch of baking soda, and two family sized tea bags.
- Use a lid from a small pot, place upside down onto the stein to allow mixture to steep.
- After allowing to steep for 15 minutes, use funnel to pour into beer jug#2, with 6 cups of cold water.
- Cap, shake well, serve over ice.
- Loudly proclaim victory over the tea, and decide that next round, you might just go for 1 1/4 cups of sugar.
cold water, boiling water, sugar, baking soda
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/southern-sweet-iced-tea-hotel-style-108937 (may not work)