Fruit Tea - Recipe For a Lesser-Sweetened Version

Sunday, October 4, 2009

I was raised in the south, where a very sweet tea is the norm. In fact, if you sweetened in a restaurant and do not want to have your tea, you specify whether UN-sweetened tea. Most waiters / waitresses, south of the Mason-Dixon Line is automatically bring you sweet tea, if you ask for tea or iced tea. I have to actually wait until the restaurant staff made tea without sugar.

My grandmother works with 2 ½ cups of sugar in one liter of tea! It is a perfectly acceptable allocation ofgranulated cane product in a pitcher of Georgia tea. A lot of southerners, including most of my family members, love it, but I never learned to like the syrupy taste of it. Besides, the extra sugar only converts to fat and ends up on my hips and thighs, so I opt for a lesser-sweetened recipe.

I spent a couple of years in the north where sweet tea was not readily available. I was in heaven. I never had to worry when I drove away from the take-out window if I was going to gag on the first straw-filled my drink.

The same goes for fruit teas. Most are just too sweet for my taste. If I want fruit in a restaurant in Tennessee, I ask for half a glass of fruit tea and half a glass of unsweetened tea. I get crazy looks and get some normally free of charge for two drinks. Okay, here's my solution.

1. I do not drink tea in a Southern restaurant, where you can get the spout and control of sugar content in the people.
2. Make fruit at home with thisdelicious recipe. It tastes for every season!

* 4 family sized tea bags

1 ½ quarts boiling water

½ quarts cold water

** 1 quart orange juice

** 1 pint of apple or pineapple juice

** 1 pint lemonade

* Green tea has more health benefits (eg, antioxidant properties) than normal tea, but I lost the taste goes, if you add the remaining ingredients. If you want to try a more fruit, I suggest, with black or orange pekoe tea bags.Sweet Tea Southerner would never be green tea. Come to think of it, they would not use this recipe for fruit tea either!

** There are comparable amounts of juice mix.

Place tea bags in a single-serve gallons jug in which you plan to or store your brew.

Boiling water over tea bags and let steep for about an hour.

Discard tea bags, cold water and juice. Stirring and stored overnight in the refrigerator. Stir Serve cold to enjoy before casting, and.