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Ingredients
2 quarts bottled spring water or filtered water
¼ cup loose green tea leaves or 8 standard green tea bags
Sugar to taste
2 lemons, thinly sliced
Instructions
¼ cup loose green tea leaves or 8 standard green tea bags
Sugar to taste
2 lemons, thinly sliced
1. Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil in a teakettle. Put tea leaves in a deep, heatproof bowl or large teapot. As soon as the water begins to boil, remove from heat and cool to the optimum temperature for the variety of green tea that you’re using (see headnote). Pour over tea leaves, stir, and let stand 1 to 2 minutes.
2. Strain liquid through a fine wire-mesh sieve or coffee filter into a pitcher. Sweeten to taste before cooling. If you’re not sweetening the tea, cool completely and serve over ice with sweeteners, lemon and mint passed separately. Yield: 2 quarts (10 servings).
Recipe by Damon Fowler, "Relish America's Harvest," May 2007.
2. Strain liquid through a fine wire-mesh sieve or coffee filter into a pitcher. Sweeten to taste before cooling. If you’re not sweetening the tea, cool completely and serve over ice with sweeteners, lemon and mint passed separately. Yield: 2 quarts (10 servings).
Recipe by Damon Fowler, "Relish America's Harvest," May 2007.
