Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

In article <[email protected]>, vickiebee
<[email protected]>  on Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 05:44:35 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>
>I hope this doesn't get me thrown out of here...
>
>Homemade Southern Sweet Tea is the house wine of the South.
>
>Southern-style sweet tea is a strong infusion of black tea freshly
>brewed - Lipton or Luzianne - that's sweetened with sugar while hot,
>chilled until cold, and served over ice.
>
>It's served in every restaurant - posh or cafe.
>
>We are raised on it and it's offered the same way I used to think (from
>movies) that you Brits offer hot tea - to celebrate, in a crisis, after
>a hard day. It's served ice cold because it is hot as buttermilk
>biscuits down here.
>
>They say that it became a cultural staple because sugar was used as a
>preservative in the old days and our palates grew to like the sweetness.
>
>v - ah do declare, a tall glass would be so nice now, slices of lemon please

It is as British as tea.  The only difference is that you call it
Southern Sweet Tea whereas to us it is Cold Tea and welcome on a hot
day.  

Pouring it over ice does rather diminish the taste.

Russian black tea leaves make an excellent cold or hot tea.


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