A pinch of baking soda makes a world ofdifference in a pitcher of freshly brewed sweet tea. Itneutralizes the tannins in black tea, giving it a smoothertaste. (This same trick works to take the bitterness out of otherteas as well; you can add a teeny pinch to a mug ofhot tea while steeping.)
Hot-Brewed: Bring 8 cups water to a simmer;remove from the heat and add 3 tablespoons loose tea or 6tea bags.
Put 4 to 8 tea bags into a clean 2 quart orgallon glass container (4 teabags for a 2 quart container, 8tea bags for a gallon container). Fill with water and cap.Place outside where the sunlight can strike the container for about3 to 5 hours. Move the container if necessary to keep it in thesun.
Instructions
- Boil cold filtered water and pour halfway into tea pot andteacups to warm them up.
- Set the correct water temperature for your tea.
- Put 2 heaping teaspoons of tea (whole leaf tea is best) intotea pot.
- Steep tea for the amount of time on your tea package.
- Pour filtered tea into teacups.
Place the tea bags into the water when itbegins to boil. Continue to boil for a few secondsand turn off the heat. Remove the pot from the heat and let thetea bags sit in the hot water for fiveminutes.
Tea Bags. Bring water to a boil*, and pourover the tea as soon as it reaches boiling. Over-boilingwill cause oxygen to be reduced, making the tea taste'flat'. Use 1 tea bag per cup, or 1 teaspoon of loosetea per cup (6 oz.).
Servings in a Gallon by Cup/Glass Size
| Gallon | Cup Size | Practical Number of Servings |
|---|
| 1 gallon 128 ounces | 6 ounces | 20 |
| 1 gallon 128 ounces | 8 ounces | 15-16 |
| 1 gallon 128 ounces | 10 ounces | 12 |
| 1 gallon 128 ounces | 12 ounces | 9-10 |
"Steep" essentially means soak
In the most basic sense, to steep somethingmeans to soak it, which is what we do when we preparetea. We take dry tea leaves, add them to hot water,let them soak, pour out the tea and then drink it. So, whensomeone says to steep your tea, all you are doing ispreparing a cup of tea.Bring 4 cups of the water to a boil in a smallsaucepan over medium-high heat. Remove from heat. Steep thetea for 5 minutes. Dunk the tea bags a few times inthe water to fully hydrate, then leave submerged with the stringshanging over the side of the pot.
Lipton Orange Passionfruit Jasmine GreenTea
The taste of this flavored green tea islight, fresh, and fruity -- never bitter. To ensure a fresh cupevery time, each green tea bag is individuallywrapped.Ways to make 1 Gallon of icedtea:
Remove from heat and pour over 1 Luzianne GallonSize Iced Tea bag (or 4 Family Size or 16 IndividualCup Iced Tea bags). Brew 3-5 minutes and sweeten totaste. Add 3 quarts cold water, stir and chill. Pour intoglasses of ice.Lipton Cup Size Black TeaBags
This black tea is 100% natural, RainforestAlliance Certified*, and can be served hot oriced.How many tea bags do you need to make agallon of tea? Standard teabags contain 2-3grams of tea. It takes approximately one ounce (28g) oftea to make a gallon, so you would need 9-14 standardteabags, depending on how strong you like it. Really, it's amatter of personal preference.
To make, simply combine one tea bag with 1quart of boiling water, brew 3-5 minutes, sweeten and add 3quarts fresh cold tap water. Then sip and let great-tastingLipton black tea brighten your day. What's in theBox: Lipton Family Size Iced Tea Bags, 6 Ounces, 24Tea Bags.
Here's how I like to make cold-brew iced tea:
- Place 5 tablespoons loose tea or 10 teabags in a glass orplastic 4- to 8-cup container.
- Cover the teabags with (at least) 4 cups cold—preferablyfiltered—water.
- Cover the container and chill for at least 4 hours (or up to48)
- While the tea is chilling, make simple syrup.
How to Brew
- Put in 2 teaspoons of loose tea or 2 tea bags for every cup (8oz) of tea.
- Fill your pitcher or glass halfway with hot water.
- Let the tea steep for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on personalpreference.
- Fill the pitcher or glass up the rest of the way with coldwater, then take out the tea leaves or bags.
Start by pouring four cups of boiling water over twoteabags in a heat-proof pitcher. Then leave it for three tofive minutes. Now remove the teabags and sweeten to taste.Next, stir in six cups of ice cubes until melted, oruse four cups of cold water.
How to Make Milk Tea
- Add a Lipton Black Tea teabag to your favorite cup.
- Boil water and pour it over the teabag.
- Wait 3 to 5 minutes for the tea to brew, without stirring orsqueezing the teabag.
- Remove the teabag and pour in a dash of milk.
- Stir with a spoon to blend evenly.
Ingredients: ORANGE PEKOE AND PEKOE CUT BLACKTEA, SUCRALOSE (NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER),PECTIN.
Drinking tea is good for yourhealth. It may lower the risk of cancer, it can encourageweight loss, and recent studies have shown tea can helplower blood pressure. “This patient was drinking 16 8-ounceglasses of iced tea per day for an unknown period oftime.
Cloudiness in tea is caused by caffeine andtannins bonding with each other when tea is refrigerated oriced. The hotter the original brewing water the more caffeine andtannins are extracted from the tea leaves, and the murkierthe beverage will be.
Sweet tea is most commonly made by addingsugar or simple syrup to black tea either while thetea is brewing or still hot, although artificial sweetenersare also frequently used. Sweet tea is almost always servedice cold. It may sometimes be flavored, most commonly with lemonbut also with peach, raspberry, or mint.
Start by brewing just as you would for normal icedtea. Boil 2 cups water, steep 3 to 4 black tea bags for5 minutes maximum, add 2 more cups cold water, pour into apitcher and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.
To make cold brewed tea, you need approximatelyone teabag for 16 oz of tea. To make 44 oz of tea inwater pitcher, you need 3 tea bags. To make a gallon,you need 8 teabags. If you like strong tea, you canadd 1 or 2 more teabags in.
Sun tea is just that: tea brewed insunlight instead of with pre-boiled water. While making suntea feels very homesteady, like baking your own bread orgrowing herbs, it should only be done safely, and with the rightequipment.
Boil 4 cups water. Make a tea bag using abasket coffee filter and clothespin. Use 1/4 – 1/2 cuploose herbs or tea leaves per gallon offinished tea. Put tea bag and hot water into a halfgallon jar.
Pour 2 liters of water into a large pot an bringto a boil. Take the pot off of the heat and as soon as the waterstops boiling add the 4 tea bags to the water. Allow thetea to steep for about 20 minutes. (No need to time thisperfectly.
If you want a proper cup of tea you need to steep(brew) your tea for 3.5 mins and don't squeeze thebag as this releases bitterness into your brew. The teabag will contain 2-3 grams of tea. And never, neverreuse an old tea bag. One cup per bag is agood rule of thumb.
To make several servings of great tasting icedtea quickly, try using your automatic drip coffeemaker. The process here is the same as making coffee.Fill coffee maker with 12 cups of cold water. Place papercoffee filter in basket and add 8 tea bags (tags cutoff).
Coffee maker:
You can brew your tea in a countertopcoffee maker in much the same way you brew yourcoffee. Simply add loose leaf or tea bag teato the coffee filter instead of coffee grounds. Thenadd water to the reservoir, place the carafe on the warmer and waitfor the tea to brew.Tea Bags. Bring water to a boil*, and pour overthe tea as soon as it reaches boiling. Over-boiling willcause oxygen to be reduced, making the tea taste 'flat'. Use1 tea bag per cup, or 1 teaspoon of loose tea per cup(6 oz.).
For basic iced tea, calculate one tea bagper one cup water (for 8 cups of iced tea, use8 tea bags). Let the tea brew in hot,just-boiled water until fully steeped, then let cool. Don't add rawsugar into a chilled iced tea.
Perfect the Steeping Time
- Black tea: 3 to 5 minutes for both loose leaf and teabags.
- Pu-erh tea: 2 to 4 minutes for both loose leaf and teabags.
- Green tea: 2 to 4 minutes for loose leaf, 1 to 3 minutes withtea bags.
- White tea: 2 to 3 minutes for loose leaf, 30 to 60 seconds withtea bags.
