Miss Bell’s Sweet Iced Tea
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 pinch baking soda
- 6 orange pekoe tea bags
- 1/2 – 3/4 cup sugar, to taste
- 6 cups cold water
- 1-2 lemons, to taste
- Boil up 2 cups of water and pour that into a heat-safe pitcher or jug.
- Stir in the pinch of baking soda.
- Add the six tea bags and set aside with a tea towel draped over top.
- Allow this mixture to steep for 15 minutes or longer if you wish for a stronger iced tea.
- Remove tea bags, squeezing each one to extract the rest of the tea.
- Stir in the sugar, 1/4 cup at a time and stir to dissolve. Add more or less sugar to taste.
- Pour in 6 cups cold water.
- Allow this to cool in the fridge (or to serve immediately pour over ice).
- Squeeze half a lemon into the pitcher before serving.
- Use the other half of the lemon to garnish the glass or squeeze extra lemon into individual glasses to taste.
- Adapted from All Recipes
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2012/07/09/miss-bells-sweet-iced-tea/
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