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© FrugalAbundance
2007-2011
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Coffee Maker Iced Tea
- 12 to 16 inexpensive teabags
- Water
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar, depending on
your sweet tooth, optional
- 2 to 4 tablespoon lemon juice, optional
Wash your coffeemaker. Use a scrub brush to get into the nooks and
crannies. This keeps your tea from tasting like coffee. Place the
teabags in the coffeemaker where you would normally put the filter.
Since teabags provide their own filter you don't need an extra one.
Fill the coffee maker with water the way you normally do. Turn the
machine on. As it drips the carafe will fill with a very strong hot tea.
While the tea brews run enough water into the a gallon-sized pitcher
to fill it half full or a little less. Add the sugar and lemon juice
if desired. Stir until the sugar dissolves. When the tea is finished
brewing pour it into the pitcher. Add enough water to fill the
pitcher full. Stir gently. Chill until needed.
The reason you fill the pitcher with water before you add the hot tea
is so that the tea will cool down quickly, as soon as it hits the
water. If you add hot tea straight to a plastic pitcher you run the
risk of melting it.
Makes 1-gallon or 8-servings; 2-cups each.
If you prefer really sweet tea then use up to 1-cup of sugar. The
lemon juice is optional but it does give a nice sparkle to the tea
that makes it just a little bit yummier than standard fare.
Per 2-cup serving : 33 Calories; trace Fat (0.3% calories from
fat); trace Protein; 8g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 0mg
Cholesterol; 5mg Sodium. Exchanges:1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
(Assuming 12-teabags, 1/4-cup sugar and 2-tablespoons lemon juice.)
Tips
Green Tea and Herbal Tea can be brewed
just like black tea.
Add herbal teabags to black tea for
extra flavor, or mix and match to make favorite combinations.
Green tea is especially good with both
lemon and sugar.
To make Mint Tea prepare a gallon of
tea using 12 teabags. Add an extra 4 bags of herbal mint tea. Brew as
directed. You can omit any lemon juice or retain it to make Lemon
Mint Tea. I prefer this version sweetened with 1/2-cup sugar to a
gallon of tea.
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