We drink a lot of iced tea around here.
My husband’s family are iced tea drinkers and he grew up drinking iced tea.
My family didn’t drink tea.
My dad would sometimes, I think, if we went somewhere and they were serving iced tea.
I don’t remember ever fixing it when I was at home.
Iced tea is one of the first things I learned to make after we were married. I learned tips and tricks from my mother-in-law and aunt.
Over the years, I’ve made it various ways and tried a few different recipes. Every so often I like to make a big batch and freeze it and then I don’t have to think about making tea syrup for a while or think about whether there is tea syrup ready to fill up the pitcher again!
If I’m making just enough tea syrup for a gallon, click over here for a recipe I love to use~
So, here’s the recipe I’ve tweaked and that I like to make when I put iced tea syrup in the freezer.
Ingredients
- 2 gallons water
- 32 family-size Luzianne teabags
- 16 Constant Comment teabags
- 5 pounds of sugar + 3 cups
Instructions
In a large pan, bring water to a boil.
Remove from heat and add all the teabags.
Let steep for 20 minutes.
Remove teabags. Add sugar and mix until dissolved.
Fill pint jars and freeze.
1 pint jar makes 1 gallon of tea.
Makes approximately 16-18 pints.
You can tweak and customize recipe to fit your tastes!
https://adelightfulglow.com/tea-syrup-for-the-freezer/
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and probably again and again!! I love the look of food or beverages in Mason jars!
I haven’t made syrup in a while, need to again. For a while I was trying not to keep any sugar in the house but found that I was constantly going through McDonald’s drive-thru for a sweet tea so I started buying sugar again and make at least a gallon a day. My mom always had a glass gallon-sized pickle jar out on the back step full of sun tea in the summer. I don’t remember ever drinking it in other seasons but during the summer it was always plentiful.
I hadn’t made it for a while either. Not a freezer batch anyway! I have a couple of times again recently and it is so nice to have it made.
That’s a fun memory of your mother. When I was dating Matthew, his mom would set tea out in a gallon jar and make sun tea. I don’t know that she’s done that for a long time.
I used some stevia and some splenda and some sugar the last time I did the tea syrup.