Comments on: Sweet Tea: The Elixir Of The South

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Some Blog-love: Gift Mixes from Southern Plate | Food Candy — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:35:26 +0000

[...] short time I spent in Tennessee so many years ago. I must say, my favorite recipe to date is her Sweet Tea, this is THE real deal and such a treat to have my family see why I’ve always craved a REAL [...]

By: Christy Jordan

Christy Jordan — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:03:49 +0000

I use Splenda and use the same amount for tea

By: Daniel M

Daniel M — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:52:00 +0000

Hello everyone, I live in florida and I been making my own sweet tea for years now. And since I am the only one in my house that drinks it. I make a gallon at a time. I am trying to figure out if I use Splenda instead of sugar, do I use the same amount of Splenda?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:13:21 +0000

Whenever I made it with a saucepan like this, I alway put the sugar in the pan too. I never really thought of it as tasting bitter. But I tried putting it in the ice water instead, and it does actually taste different. I can see where one might consider the other method tasting bitter, though I think most people are just used to it. It tastes better when I used plain old Lipton. I might try it with something better. One thing though.. the sugar can dissolve really well in the ice water. It’s not quite the same thing as mixing the hot and cold water, and then mixing the sugar. If you pour the sugar into the ice water and mix it well with a spoon, then by the time you add the hot water, it will still completely dissolve.

By: Kay E.

Kay E. — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:27:20 +0000

I make a gallon of “sun tea” every other day, for my youngest son, who likes unsweetened tea. using 6 teabags. I also make myself, and everyone else, sweet tea. I use the stove method and I boil the tea for 5 minutes, let cool down, remove tea bags and add the sugar to it. Then I pour it in the pitcher of cold water. Never had scorched taste n I been making it that way for 40 years. Tea is much sweeter, believe me.

By: Helga

Helga — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:55:27 +0000

The only thing I can’t understand and hate to hell about it all is the tea BAGS!!! No good tea tradition can be started without good loose tea! D’you know what is in the bags? Fannings , which are tea production leftovers (or simply, the dust).

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:47:55 +0000

One of the teachers I work with was born and raised in New York. She and her family moved here to Tennessee a few years ago and they are now hooked on sweet southern tea. While they were visiting New York for several weeks this summer, she emailed me for a recipe for sweet tea. They were having withdrawals. I sent her my recipe which is almost exactly the one you posted. I use Luzianne only. I must say good old sweet tea is hard to beat.

By: Rachael K.

Rachael K. — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:15:26 +0000

I have to say you don’t have to live in the South or be from the South to love Sweet Tea. I am from Chicago area and always loved Sweet Tea. There is always a pitcher of it in my refrigerator.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:39:56 +0000

I LOVE honey in my lemonade. Don’t care much for it in my tea though. We tried that earlier this summer. Have to make to different batches because my partner loves honey tea.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:38:48 +0000

OMG! I know right! I grew up in the country side of Missouri. When I was a teen we moved into the suburban areas and every where we all they had was unsweet tea. I about had a cardiac. TRYING to mix sugar into a cold glass just does not work! Don’t even get me started about when I joined the military and got stationed in DC!