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- From: Julia Trachsel <jdtrach@islandnet.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Ice Tea
- Date: 13 Jun 1995 08:40:01 +0100
- Organization: Demon Internet News Service
- Message-ID: <m0sLLtg-000L1fC@island.amtsgi.bc.ca>
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- Ice Tea
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- Step 1 ingredients:
- 8 cups strong tea
- (8 cups boiling water +16 teabags, left to steep for 5 minutes)
- 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (approx 2 large lemons)
- 1/2 - 3/4 cup sugar (or more to taste)
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- Step 2 ingredients:
- Grated peel from lemons
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- Step 1 method:
- Pour steeped tea into a pitcher.
- Add the sugar.
- Add the lemon juice.
- Stir, taste for adjust for sweetness.
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- Note: Before you add the lemon juice (fresh squeezed is mandatory),
- the tea should taste quite bitter, undrinkable alone. Once you add the
- lemon juice it turns colour, (the lemon juice seems to bleach it) and
- then add sugar until you're happy with the taste.
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- Step 2 method:
- My technique is to put the grated rind in a metal sieve (one with
- really tiny holes), place the sieve on top of a large measuring cup or
- pitcher that holds 8.5 cups of liquid, and pour the hot, strong tea
- mixed with the lemon juice and sugar through it, and repeat several
- times.
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- Enjoy.
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- Alternate way to serve this which is really refreshing as well:
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- Iced Tea Granita
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- Add 2 cups of sugar to the hot tea and stir until dissolved.
- Add the lemon juice _and_ grated lemon rind.
- Pour into two shallow pans (13 x 9 x 2) work fine.
- Put in freezer.
- Stir with a potato masher or strong whisk every 1/2 hour to 45 minutes
- until entirely crystallized. It should have the texture of snow.
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- Put gently into containers in the freezer, quickly so it doesn't melt,
- and scoop out some on a hot summer's day and share with your friends.
- It's wonderful.
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- Julia
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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