To explain the issue better, I live rural. LIke, there’s farms around here and I got only one store that I can walk to and the stock they got with tea isn’t… well its not big.
And the other grocery stores I got access to by car, well their tea section isn’t big either…actually, when I think about it, they focus more on the juice and saft but details.
That said, my sister lives closer to an actual city, where they got a mall. Said mall got proper stock. Its just with covid, trips to my sister is a bit tricker you see but dad and me are plotting a trip to see sis and the family, so I will get black tea then.
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I mean, I’ve tried to make ice tea from scratch, issue is I can’t find black tea that hasn’t been altered already and I can’t drink the lemon tea I find locally because it has ginger in it…and ginger makes my tongue numb.
So, sun tea?
I grew up with it and didn’t really know it wasn’t something everyone did until fairly recently.
What you do is you find teabags of a kind you like, or use loose leaf tea and a tea infuser if that’s what you prefer. My favorite is half Lipton black tea, and half Good Earth Sweet And Spicy. I don’t know what kinds of tea are available near you, but something you like to drink as hot tea generally works well, especially black and herbal teas.
You find a large, clear glass container (what my mom did was buy 2 gallons of pickles, took the jar to a co-op we went to and offered everyone some pickles, and kept the jar when empty).
Fill it up with water, put tea bags in. My family used a tea bag to about every 1 ½ cups water, which I think translates to about a third of a liter. Check me though! You might like more tea bags, which makes stronger tea, or less.
Then, you take it outside and leave it in a nice sunny spot for several hours. Take it in when it’s the right color for the kind of tea you’re using. I don’t know how well this works when it’s below 60 F or 15 C outside, I live in a desert.
Generally, when you take it in, you can add whatever sweeteners you may prefer. Stir well, remove tea bags, and put in refrigerator to cool. Then you have iced tea!
Oh man, lol, I’m not sure if I could do that considering the coldness right now. Maybe in summer but at the current moment, we’re tipping between -4 to 4′C or 24′8 to 39′F from day to day. Maybe I could stash it in a window sill in the living room, that would be the warmest place right now…
To be fair, Norway do dry and do things by sun but um, most of the time its cold here. Then again, I do make cold brew, maybe the same thing can work for tea… lol lol
I take about 5 tea bags (I love mint tea) a quart size (large) jug, boil water and pour it over, and let it steep for about 5-10 minutes (depending on how strong you like your tea). Then remove tea bags, and sweeten it. If you want to make your own lemony syrup, take a cup of sugar, a cup of water, and slice up a lemon and put them all in a pot on the stove until the sugar dissolves. Remove the lemons and put the syrup in a container to add to your tea. I’m from the southern US, so that’s how I make southern sweet tea.
Yeah, I read the first post and was confused why OP missed iced tea when it’s so easy to make?
As a kid it was a couple bags of tea (Lipton here but IDK what people use in other countries. Basically any black tea would work I guess) and put it in a pitcher along with lots of sugar (I’m from the South too…we make our iced tea SWEET), then pour hot water over it (I didn’t get an electric kettle until just recently and as a kid I just stuck a coffee mug in the microwave as I didn’t want to use the stove), let it steep for a while, take the teabags out, add cold water, then pour over ice. It’s easy.
You do the sugar at the hot water step so it all dissolves. If you wait to the end when you add cold water, it won’t dissolve all the way, at least not any time soon.
Yeaaah, if I could get proper black tea, that be nice. But um, all tea here in Norway is pretty much blended with something, generally pretty strongly too. Ginger as I said makes my tongue numb and most of the others are earl grey. I could maybe do the berry black tea mixes I guess, add a whole lot of lemons to get the lemon taste.
So that’s why I miss ice tea, cause the powder had a strong tea taste with a good lemon taste ^^;
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