How to Make Perfect Iced Tea with Lipton Tea Bags
Southern iced tea, with the perfect amount of sweetness, to cool you down on a hot Texas summer day. A refreshing and cold pick me up! Instructions included for both sweetened or unsweetened iced black tea using convenient Lipton tea bags.
Servings: 6
Calories: 23kcal
Cost: $0.25
Equipment
- Electric kettle optional
Ingredients
- 8 cups water divided in half
- 6 Lipton black tea bags standard size (or 2 family-size Lipton tea bags)
- 3 tablespoons sugar optional
- 8 cups ice
Instructions
- Bring 4 cups of water to a boil in a kettle or medium sauce pan.8 cups water
- Add teabags to a heat-proof ceramic pitcher or large glass 8 cup measuring bowl/cup. (If you don't have either, you can steep the tea in a stockpot or sauce pan on the stove.)6 Lipton black tea bags
- Pour boiling water into pitcher. Make sure tea bags are in the water, so they can steep. Dunk them a couple times, then drape strings over the side of the pitcher, if possible.
- Allow the tea to steep for 20 minutes on the counter.
- Remove tea bags with a long wooden spoon, squeeze tea out of them and then throw away the tea bags. Stir in sugar with wooden spoon, if using. Add remaining 4 cups of water to tea and stir.3 tablespoons sugar
- Fill glasses with ice. Pour tea over ice and enjoy!8 cups ice
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Notes
Makes 6 tall glasses of iced tea.
Sweetened tea can be refrigerated and drank the next day, but it starts to take on an unpleasant aftertaste that I do not enjoy. I recommend you drink the tea the day you make it.
Nutrition
Serving: 1portion | Calories: 23kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Fat: 1g | Sodium: 32mg | Potassium: 1mg | Sugar: 6g | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg
