Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison

Sunny Sweet Tea

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Smoke & Spice: Cooking With Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue
Smoke & Spice

By Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison

Published 2014

  • About

Set this outside in the sun with you while you barbecue and you’ll have great iced tea by lunchtime. You can substitute artificial sweetener for the sugar, but a venerable rule of barbecue etiquette requires some kind of sweetening.

Ingredients

  • 6 tea bags
  • 4 cups cold water
  • Sugar, a lot of it
  • Ice

Method

  1. Put the tea bags and cold water in a large jar with a lid, setting it out in the sun to soak up some rays. You’ll have tea in a couple of hours, but give it at least twice that long for the fullest flavor. Add sugar to taste, traditionally until your teeth ache.
  2. Let the tea stand at room temperature until needed or pour immediately over ice. Use a good quantity