Author Notes: This is a recipe for the Southern classic variety. No fancy herbal infusions or expensive teas here. Just water, sugar, and plain black tea. The only thing that improves this classic is a wedge of lemon, a mason jar to drink it out of, and a front porch to drink it on. —Beth Kirby | {local milk}
Makes: 16 cups
Ingredients
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16
cups water
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16
tea bags, Lipton or Luzianne
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16
tablespoons white sugar
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1
lemon for serving, optional
Directions
- Boil the water in a large pot.
- Remove pot from heat and add in the tea bags. Swirl them around a bit to make sure they’re all submerged, and then steep it until it’s nice and strong, 15-20 minutes.
- Remove tea bags with a slotted spoon, and stir in sugar until it’s all dissolved.
- Cover and let cool off a bit before transferring to a pitcher or large mason jars and chilling it in the fridge until it’s cold, a few hours.
- Pour tea over some ice (preferably in and old jam jar to set the mood…), put a wedge of lemon on the side, and sip it on a front porch somewhere…and if you haven’t access to a front porch for your sipping, no worries, it’s easily imagined while sipping this tea!