Do you know the history of iced tea?
Before making this vitally important summer drink let us check it's history briefly:
The oldest printed recipes for iced tea date back to the 1870s. Two of the earliest cookbooks with iced tea recipes are the Buckeye Cookbook by Estelle Woods Wilcox, first published in 1876, and Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree, first published in 1877. Iced tea started to appear in the USA during the 1860s. Seen as a novelty at first, it became quite widespread in the 1870's. Not only did recipes appear in print, but iced tea was offered on hotel menus, and was for sale at railroad stations. It's popularity rapidly increased after Richard Blechynden introduced it at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Today, iced tea comes in many variations. It is served sweetened, primarily in the southern states, and served black in most others.
Here are two variations of iced tea that can be easily prepared at home.
To prepare iced lemon tea in a jar you will need:
Glass Jar
4 green tea bags
4 orange pekoe tea bags
6 cups boiling water
1 cup white sugar
1 (12 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate.
1/2 lemon, juiced
cold water, or as needed.
- Place green tea bags and black tea bags in a 1-gallon glass jar. Pour boiling water over tea bags; steep for 30 minutes.
- Remove tea bags; stir in sugar and lemonade concentrate until dissolved. Fill the jar to the top with cold water; stir in lemon juice. Chill in the refrigerator until cold. Serve over ice.
The other variant of refreshing summer iced tea is Cranberry Orange Iced tea.
To prepare this tea you will need:
Glass Jar
2 cups boiling water
6 cranberry herb tea bags
1/4 cup lemon juice
9 packets Sweet'N Low granulated sugar substitute.
2 1/2 cups cold water
1 1/2 cups orange juice
- In a large pitcher, pour the boiling water over the tea bags. Steep 5 minutes; remove the tea bags and discard.
- Stir in the lemon juice and Sweet'N Low until the Sweet'N Low dissolves. Mix in the cold water and orange juice.
- Refrigerate until well chilled.
- Pour over ice in a glass jar.
When the temperature rises, stay cool with these summer iced teas. Please share with us what variant you liked more.
Sources used to make this article: www.wikipedia.org, allrecipes.com