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Home-made flavored iced tea
If I can’t stop complaining about the heat this summer, it’s because there’s still too much to complain about. Often, I feel I’m going to wither — literally. There seems to be no respite even at midnight.
Naturally, we’ve been consuming a lot of cold drinks. Ice trays in the freezer aren’t enough anymore. My husband buys tube ice by the bag almost everyday. We have an assortment of fruit juices in cans and cartons and we’re gobbling them up like crazy. The two things we don’t buy anymore are powdered juices and iced tea. They’re nothing but a bunch of artificial flavors and loads of sugar. We’ve been boycotting bottled iced tea as well. As an alternative, I thought about making iced tea from flavored tea in bags. With honey. Sounds much healthier than commercial drinks.
This is not an original idea. A friend taught me this trick many years ago when iced tea was a new phenomenon and there were no powdered iced tea mixes that allowed us to enjoy it the lazy way.
The nice thing about making your own iced tea is that, with the variety of flavored tea in bags available in supermarkets, you can have a unique blend of fruits and spices in your iced tea. You can even choose between flavored green tea and black tea.
It’s easy. Place two teabags in a cup. Pour in boiling water and let the tea seep in the hot water for 3 to 5 minutes. I recommend using a small cup so that there is less liquid that will need to be cooled. You’re going to add cold water and ice anyway so it is immaterial how strong the tea is.
Remove the tea bags and pour the tea in a pitcher. Add about half a cup of cold water to make it lukewarm. Add honey, about 1/4 cup, and stir well. Add enough cold water and ice to fill four regular drinking glasses. Give the iced tea a final stir before pouring and serving.
Try it, you’d be surprised at how different iced tea tastes minus all the artificial flavorings. And substituting honey in lieu of sugar makes it even better. 
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Hey good one! Thanks for the tip!
this is a great idea since my kid loves iced tea, am surely going to try this.thanks to you!!!!
really great in this terrible weather.
good thing that summer is about to end there in the Philippines…
here in Riyadh?… summer is just starting…
grabe sa init as in grabe talaga! well, what do you expect on a desert country like Saudi Arabia?!
so just imagine kung ilang pitcher of ice tea ang gagawin ko for one day con?
thanks for the tip!
It’s starting to rain here, Ann. At last! Problem is the power outages that almost always accompany the rains.
Enjoy the iced tea. At least, you can forget the heat momentarily.
Wow! Cool! This is such a great idea para sa inlaws ko for coming summer, cup of tea kc tubig nila dito eh…at least there is an ice tea drink in such a better way
Cheers!
Yap yap I also prefer making my iced tea this way! No acidic aftertaste unlike the powdered/bottled iced teas. I throw two or three bags into a small pot of boiling water and simmer for a few minutes para ‘mapiga’ yung flavor ng tea. I also add some mint pag available, really refreshing!:)
Remember Butterfly Iced Tea? It used to be available in some restaurants in concentrate form. My aunt in law shared with me the secret behind it, which she adds to her home-brewed iced tea: four teabags, 10-15 pieces of calamansi plus a few drops of maple extract. It completely changes the flavor! I got mine from Cost U Less before it closed down.
At Salcedo Market, a stall (Pascale’s) sells various flavors of freshly-brewed isiced teas as well.
ooops I forgot to add: of course, add sugar or simple syrup or honey to taste
I have lots of flavored tea from my friend in Germany. I don’t drink hot tea so i was wondering what to do with all those! Do you think it will work with Sagada tea? I have that too from my BIL.
Now I have something to do with those bags and boxes of tea.
Chats, I think any kind of tea will work. Play around with the additions — whatever combination of freshly squeezed fruit juices you fancy plus honey.
You’ve really got to quit the cult of Jamie Oliver. It’s not becoming of a person with their own brains. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1674/
I’ve been doing the school lunch thing for my kids even before Jamie Oliver aired his first show. The only difference is I got no publicity for it.
So, Mick, eat your junk food if you must but some of us do believe in healthier alternatives.
Buzz off.
Hi Connie! I tried na din this one….I loved it…kasi I always drink tea everyday eh,,,,,,,,nakakataba ba ang honey? he!he!he!
Hey…
Do you have the recipe for the “butterfly ice tea” which was popular in the ’70s? If so let me know.
Thanks,
Terry