Give a piddling twist to your traditional sweetness tea amongst tardily Almond Iced Tea. It'll help you lot flavorfully crunch the summertime heat!
I'm a large fan of flavored iced teas. Since I don't drinkable coffee, iced tea used to live on my caffeine of choice. {I country 'used to be' because I don't drinkable caffeine at all anymore ... except on the rattling rare occasion. Can you lot believe it?? So my iced tea is made amongst decaffeinated tea bags now-a-days.} Anyway ... dorsum inwards my corporate-America days, when everyone else did their morn java run I did my morn tea run. In the wintertime my 'run' was for a chai tea latte. In the other seasons my 'run' was for an iced tea.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flavored iced tea, to live on exact.
See, at that spot was a piddling java store inwards the antechamber of 1 of the purpose buildings I worked inwards that ever had a 'flavor of the day' iced tea. They'd write the day's flavor on their piddling chalkboard at the front end of the shop, together with I'd eagerly hold back reading it on my walk into the purpose each morning. After checking e-mails together with dealing amongst whatever urgent issues, it was my piddling morn process {and pick-me-up} to brand a run downstairs to larn a tea.
I loved their blackberry iced tea best. {Hmmmmm ... perhaps I'll demand to effort to copy-cat that!}
Since giving upwards caffeine, I don't drinkable equally much iced tea equally I used to. But when I do, I'm nonetheless a sucker for a yummy flavored tea.
Like this Almond Iced Tea that I tin easily whip upwards at home.
With only a combat of almond extract together with vanilla extract, you lot tin plough regular ol' iced tea into refreshing almond flavored iced tea. Easy-peasy.
Now, speaking of extract ... when I went to larn the almond extract to brand this tea I noticed that I ... good ... ummmm ... I may have got a pocket-sized work when it comes to extracts.
See, I kinda had a difficult fourth dimension finding the almond extract.
'Cause I entirely have got similar a ba-zillion unlike extracts
. There's vanilla, of course. And almond, of course. And rum. And butter. And maple. And source beer. And coconut. And strawberry. 'Cause you lot only never know when you're going to demand them. Right?
. There's vanilla, of course. And almond, of course. And rum. And butter. And maple. And source beer. And coconut. And strawberry. 'Cause you lot only never know when you're going to demand them. Right? Okay, okay, then I entirely have got 12. But still, that's a bunch of extracts.
I was genuinely a combat surprised to meet that I had that many extract bottles lined upwards inwards my lazy susan cupboard. I mean, when did they all arrive? Certainly I didn't purchase all those!
Did I?
Maybe they multiplied inwards the night! You know, similar mint plants produce ... taking over anything together with everything inwards their paths. Yes, that's got to live on it.
Sadly, I hollo upwards I have got to have got responsibleness for all the extracts
that have got appeared inwards my cupboard. I'm admitting to my addiction.And piece mixing upwards this batch of Almond Iced Tea, I used upwards the terminal of the almond extract, too. So I approximate I larn to view the extract shelf on my adjacent trip to the grocery store!
I'll effort to demo restraint together with entirely larn the almond extract that I need.
But hmmmmmm, I don't have got raspberry extract
yet ... together with you lot only never know when you lot only may demand it ...
Almond Iced Tea
Source: Adapted from Carolina Sunshine: Then together with Now
by the Charity League of Charlotte
(Printable recipe)
by the Charity League of Charlotte(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
- 4 tea bags {regular-sized dark tea
}
- 1/3 c. granulated sugar
- water
- 1 & 1/4 tsp. almond extract
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 T. fresh lemon juice {optional}
Directions
- Place the tea bags together with ii cups of H2O inwards a drinking glass microwaveable criterion loving cup or bowl; microwave until boiling. {Or, pour boiling H2O over the iv tea bags.} Let cool to lukewarm. Squeeze out the tea bags into the tea liquid.
- Place granulated saccharide inwards a 2-quart pitcher. Add virtually 1/2 c. boiling or rattling hot tap water; stir until saccharide is dissolved. Add tea to the pitcher. Fill the residue of the pitcher amongst mutual frigidness H2O {to equal ii quarts total}.
- Stir inwards almond extract, vanilla extract, together with lemon juice {if using}.
- Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over H2O ice amongst a lemon wedge.
Note: Decaffeinated tea bags tin live on used only fine. Without the fresh lemon juice, you lot larn a sweeter tea amongst more-pronounced almond flavor. The lemon tones the almond flavor downwards only a touch. I similar it both ways ... depending on my 'mood.' Try it each agency to meet which you lot similar best!
Enjoy!
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