KITCHEN HINTS FOR TEA:

Begin with cold water when brewing tea.
Never boil tea.
To prevent bitter tasting tea, remove tea bags after tea has steeped.
Use simple syrup to sweeten large quantities of tea.
When preparing iced tea for a crowd, vary the flavor by adding 6 ounces 
of frozen lemonade to 1 gallon of tea.
Make ice cubes with leftover tea.  These cubes added to a drink will not 
dilute the beverage.  You can do this with ice coffee, soda, lemonade, 
all juices and even make cider ice cubes.
Freeze fruit juice for ice cubes-add to tea ad garnish with springs of 
fresh mint.
Ice tea requires half as much sugar if sweetened hot, rather than cold.
Flavor sugar lumps for tea.  Drop tiny bits of lemon juice on the sugar 
cubs to be used in the tea.  Be careful not to dissolve the sugar.  You 
can also try orange or lime juice.
For extra flavor, store tea bags in a jar with a citrus peel, vanilla 
bean or cinnamon sticks.
For varied punch flavors, try using decaf teas.