Cranberry Iced Tea Food

CRANBERRY ICED TEA

Steps:

• Combine hot tea with sugar and orange peel in a large bowl. Stir until sugar dissolves. Add cranberry juice. Place ice cubes in a large pitcher and pour cranberry tea over ice cubes.

CRANBERRY ICED TEA: SNAPPLE COPYCAT RECIPE

Steps:

• Boil 3 cups of water and steep tea bags about 8 minutes or until tea is dark and rich looking
• Pour 5 cups of water into a pitcher, add tea after steeped
• Stir in sugar and stir for a couple minutes to dissolve
• Squeeze lemons and add juice to tea
• Stir in cranberry concentrate
• Place in fridge to chill
• Serve with fresh cranberries and mint leaves if desired

CRANBERRY-MINT ICED TEA

Steps:

• Heat cranberry juice cocktail to boiling in 2-quart saucepan. Pour over tea bags and mint in 2-quart glass measuring cup or heatproof pitcher. Let steep 5 to 10 minutes.
• Strain tea mixture. Stir in sugar. Serve tea over ice. Add more sugar if desired.

ICED CRANBERRY-MINT TEA

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring the water, mint and sugar to a boil. Remove from the heat; add tea bags. Cover and steep for 15 minutes., Discard tea bags. Cover and let stand 45 minutes longer. Strain and discard mint leaves. Stir the cranberry and lemon juices into tea. Serve over ice with lemon slices if desired.

CRANBERRY VODKA ICED TEA

Steps:

• Bring the water to a boil in a large pot, and remove from the heat. Immediately whisk in the sugar and lime juice until sugar is dissolved.
• Add the tea bags and cranberry juice. Allow the tea to steep for 10 minutes, remove the tea bags and cool the tea.
• Stir to be sure that the sugar is dissolved, and place in a large pitcher. Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.
• Just before serving, add the vodka to the tea and serve in tall glasses filled with ice. Garnish with lime slices.

CRANBERRY-GINGER ICED TEA

Steps:

• Peel gingerroot and cut into thin slices. Boil water, sugar and gingerroot until the sugar dissolves. Let cool. Brew the 10 teabags in 5 cups water and let it cool. For each serving, place 2 orange wheels, 1-ounce ginger syrup, 4 ounces brewed tea and 3 ounces cranberry juice in an ice-filled mixing glass. Shake and strain into ice-filled wine glass or tumbler. Garnish with additional orange wheels.

SPICED CRANBERRY COCKTAIL ICED TEA

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine water and cranberries.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Next add the sugar, orange juice, lemon juice, cloves, allspice berries and cinnamon sticks.
• Cover and steep for 1 hour.
• Strain the mixture, pour into a large pitcher and allow to cool to room temperature on counter.
• Once cooled place in refrigerator, until chilled.
• When ready, add the pineapple juice, ginger ale, lemon and orange slices to the cranberry mixture in the pitcher and serve in tall glasses with lots of ice.

FRESH CRANBERRY SPICED TEA

Steps:

• Place the cranberries and water into a large pot. Bring to a boil and cook just until the berries pop, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand at room temperature until cold, several hours.
• Strain out the cranberries and stir the orange juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice and sugar into the liquid. Add the cinnamon stick, whole cloves and allspice berries. Bring to a low boil. It is ready to serve at this point, but it is even better if you allow it to sit overnight.

CRANBERRY ORANGE ICED TEA

Steps:

• 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 tall glasses.

CRANBERRY AND ORANGE ICED TEA

Steps:

• Use a vegetable peeler to peel the rind from the orange. Use a small sharp knife to remove the white pith from the rind.
• Place the rind and tea bags in a large heatproof jug. Pour over the water. Set aside for 20 minutes to infuse.
• Remove the tea bags and rind, and discard. Add the cranberry juice and sugar to the jug, and stir to combine.
• Cut half the orange flesh into small pieces and divide among 2 ice cube trays. Pour the tea mixture among the trays. Place in the freezer overnight. Cover the remaining tea mixture with plastic wrap and place in the fridge to chill.
• Remove the ice cubes from the trays and place in a serving jug. Pour over the tea mixture and serve.
• Time plan tip: Prepare this recipe to the end of step 4 up to 1 day ahead. Continue from step 5 just before serving. Picnic tip: Divide the ice cubes and tea among airtight bottles or jugs. Transport in your esky.

CRANBERRY TEA

Steps:

• Bring first 6 ingredients to a boil in a large Dutch oven;reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add tea bags; cover and steep 5 minutes.
• Using a slotted spoon, remove and discard teabags, cinnamon, and cloves; stir in orange juice.
• Chill tea; serve over ice with lemon wedges.

RASPBERRY-CRANBERRY ICED TEA

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, add the frozen raspberries, and the water.
• Bring water to a boil, stirring to break up the raspberries.
• Reduce heat to a simmer, cover the pan, and simmer the berries for 10 minutes.
• Remove pan from the heat, strain and discard the raspberry seeds.
• Add the tea bags to the pan, cover the pan, and steep the tea for 1 hour.
• Remove the tea bags from the pan, and strain the tea once again. (This helps to remove any raspberries that are left in the pan).
• Pour the raspberry-tea into a heat proof glass pitcher.
• To the pitcher, add the sugar (the 1/2 cup, 1 tablespoon, and 1 teaspoon) and stir until sugar has dissolved.
• Add the raspberry-cranberry juice to the pitcher, and stir.
• At this point you can immediately serve the tea in a glass filled with ice, or you can chill the tea in the refrigerator until ready to serve.