Below is a Southern Sweet Tea Recipe from my friend The Sensuous Wife …enjoy!
“Southern iced tea, known here as sweet tea. as in, “Hon, did you want sweet or unsweet?” when you order tea in a southern barbeque joint. To make sweet tea, you buy Luzianne tea from Louisiana. You boil a full 4 quart pan of water, add 1 big or 4 small bags of Luzianne, and 1 cup of sugar. You must add the sugar when it is hot and let the tea steep a long time.
Stir till the sugar dissolves. pour tea in a pitcher and chill in the fridge. If you don’t have time to chill, pour the warm tea into glasses that are full of ice cubes. Serve with big wedges of fresh lemon. This is kind of tea you use to wash down spicy Cajun food like fried crawfish or catfish or shrimp.
And no, making it with Splenda does not taste the same. There’s some kinda magic with the boiling water and Luzianne tea and sugar all meeting up at the same time and hanging out and making friends during the long steep. Oh and the fresh lemon is a must-have.
But dont put the lemon in the water when hot. If you do, too much of the lemon oil will come out and you dont’ want lemon oil in your tea, you want lemon juice.”
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You know some of us contend that Lipton Tea -produced in that bastion of southern culture, Virginia- is the only propper tea for southern iced tea. After all, Louisiana is just populated by a bunch of French Canadians who got lost, and what do the French know about tea really?
*is concerned that a new civil war is about to break out*
*hides*
I want a recipe from Joel Poinettes famous breakfasts in Charleston SC back in the real old days. The tea must have been sensational.