Summer Sunshine Tea Food

ICED SUN TEA

Steps:

• Remove any tags from the tea bags (prevents dye from leeching into the tea) and place them in the bottom of a clear, glass, 1/2 gallon pitcher.
• Fill with cold water , add lemon and lime and cover with plastic wrap or lid (keeps gnats and other creepies out).
• Place outdoors in the sun (can do out of the sun as well, but takes just a bit longer).
• Allow to brew for 5-6 hours or until it is as dark as you like (warmer weather brews it faster).
• Remove tea bags and fruit and serve tea over ice, sweetened with honey if desired (mix it in while tea is warm).
• Tea will keep about 6 hours, after which the quality decreases rapidly.

SUMMER SUNSHINE TEA

Steps:

• The night before fill a gallon container with water and screw on the lid.
• In the morning place tea bags inside the container.
• Set it outside in a full sun location, preferably on a sidewalk (it gets a extra kick that way from the hot cement).
• In 6 - 8 hours you have tea.
• Refrigerate until chilled and serve over ice.

SUN TEA

Steps:

• You will also need: 1 gallon container or jug, with a screw on lid.
• About 9am, fill your pitcher with the water, and tea bags.
• The reason for the screw on top, is so that ants don't get to the tea.
• Let the tea sit in the sun for most of the day, a prime full sun location is best.
• When bringing the tea in, boil one cup, and then mix it with the sugar (but, in the summer, the heat from outside can be enough to dissolve the sugar).
• Boiling the cup of tea only helps to make dissolving the sugar easier.
• Combine the sugar, tea, and more water to make one gallon.
• Serve with thick 1 1/2" wedges of lemon.
• It usually takes 4-6 hours of being in the sun, in order to steep.
• You can eye ball the tea, and bring it in, after the tea looks dark enough.
• Since the tea is best served cold, put it in the fridge right away.
• It does not last as long as boiled tea for some reason.
• And I usually leave the tea bags in the jug until the tea is gone.
• Then, I take the tea bags and sprinkle them in my flower garden, or over my roses.

SPARKLING SUMMER TEA

Steps:

• Pour 1 quart boiling water over tea bags; cover and steep 15 minutes.
• Remove tea bags, squeezing gently.
• Stir in sugar, lemonade concentrate and 1 quart water; stir until sugar dissolved; chill.
• When ready to serve, stir in ginger ale and serve over crushed ice.

SWEET SUN TEA

Steps:

• Remove the paper tabs from tea bags. Tie all the tea bag strings together, throw into glass container.
• Add 1 cup sugar to glass container. Fill container with water within 2" of top. Shake container to dissolve the sugar.
• Place in a sunny spot outside.
• Do your chores or play, come back later, add ice cubes.
• Pour into tall glass with slice of lemon or whatever.