Dad's Ice Tea
Source of Recipe
Favorite Southern Recipes
List of Ingredients
4 tea bags
3 - 4 cups boiling water
cold water
1 c. sugar
1/4 c. lemon juice
1 fresh orange
1 fresh lemon
Recipe
Makes one 2 litre pitcher. Pour boiling water over tea bags. Let sit
for about 4 minutes. Pour in a bit of cold water, then squeeze out
the tea bags, and remove. Add sugar and lemon juice. Mix well until
sugar dissolves. Add enough cold water to almost fill pitcher. (leave
about 1 inch room at top of pitcher) Cut one orange in 1/2 and
squeeze juice into tea, as well as one lemon. Slice squeezed parts of
orange and lemon and put into tea. Let sit overnight. Stir before
serving.
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