How to Make Southern Iced Sweet Tea in 18 Minutes at Home

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, southern iced sweet tea. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Southern Iced Sweet Tea is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Southern Iced Sweet Tea is something which I have loved my whole life.

This is how my Granny made sweet tea and it is some kind of sweet. Southern Sweet Tea recipes have been passed down from generation to generation. Dear Liptons, Born and raised Southerner here.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have southern iced sweet tea using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Iced Sweet Tea:

1. Get 1 family size gallon tea bag
2. Make ready 1 1/2 cups sugar
3. Prepare Ice
4. Take Water

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Steps to make Southern Iced Sweet Tea:

1. Fill saucepan to about inch from rim with water until almost full but enough space for a rapid boil (about 1 and 1/2inch) place one tea gallon tea bag on medium high heat until reaches a good boil I use Lipton
2. Once reaches a rapid boil turn heat off and let cool on same burner
3. While that cools place 1 and one half cup of sugar in a one gallon tea pitcher
4. Once steam settles at least 20 minutes pour tea in pitcher and mix throughly the longer it sits the stronger
5. Now fill pot with ice and pour in pitcher and stir
6. Fill rest of pitcher with ice cold water while stirring
7. Fill cup with ice and tea! Enjoy!!!

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