Sparkling Iced Tea Food

SPARKLING RASPBERRY TEA

Steps:

• In large pitcher, mix tea, juice and sparking water.
• Serve tea over ice. Garnish with raspberries and mint leaves.

SPARKLING PEACH TEA

Steps:

• Make the simple syrup: Combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. (It will make about 1 1/2 cups. Store extra syrup covered in the refrigerator up to 1 month.)
• Make the tea: Steep all the tea bags in 3 cups hot water for 10 minutes. Remove the bags and add 2 cups cold water. Put the chopped peach, 3/4 cup simple syrup and the lemon juice into a blender and puree until smooth. Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer. Stir together the peach-simple syrup mixture and the iced tea. Pour half of the peach tea into ice cube trays and freeze until solid. Refrigerate the remaining peach tea.
• Make the cocktails: Fill 6 tall glasses with the peach tea ice cubes. Divide the peach tea evenly among the glasses. Top each with the prosecco and a lemon slice and serve.

SPARKLING MINT-LIME ICED TEA

Steps:

• Bring 4 cups of water to a boil. Remove from heat and add 4 bags of mint tea. Allow to steep for 10 minutes. Discard tea bags and pour tea into a small pitcher. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours or until well chilled.
• Chill tall glasses in fridge or shortly in freezer, if desired. Add crushed ice, 1 cup of tea, sweetener (if desired) and 1 or 2 tsp lime juice, depending on how tart you like your tea. Stir. Add 1/2 cup sparkling water. Squeeze mint sprig and add to glass. Garnish with half a lime slice, if desired.

SPARKLING PEACH TEA

Steps:

• Cut the peach in half, remove the pit and dice the fruit. Put the peaches, Simple Syrup and lemon juice into a blender and puree until smooth. Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer. Stir together the peach-simple syrup mixture with the peach iced tea. Pour half of the peach tea mixture into ice cube trays and freeze. Chill the remaining peach tea mixture.
• To make the cocktails: Fill 4 tall iced tea glasses with the tea cubes. Divide the peach tea evenly among the glasses. Top each with Prosecco, garnish with a lemon slice and serve immediately.
• Combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Keep covered in the refrigerator up to 1 month.

SPARKLING JASMINE ICED TEA

Steps:

• Dissolve sugar in 3/4 cup of water, and boil gently until a syrup has formed. Set aside and let cool.
• Steep the jasmine tea in the remaining 3 1/4 cups of hot water for around 6 minutes.
• Strain out tea, and let cool.
• In a pitcher, combine syrup and tea.
• Stir or whisk until fully blended.
• Add sparkling water and cool thoroughly.
• Serve over ice at once.
• Can be served with cinnamon sticks, lemon slices or mint sprigs.
• Makes 1 quart of iced tea.