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Originally Posted by AnchorAlum
Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?
Discuss.  |
"Sweet tea" is redundant. "Unsweet tea" is an abomination and makes the angels cry.
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Sweet tea is NOT just tea with sugar. Sometimes the unknowing will suggest that you "just put sugar in your tea". That is not sweet tea.
You have to sweeten the tea while it is HOT in order to have the sugar melt and disperse evenly. If you just stir sugar into cold tea you do not have a consistent sweetness, and you end up with white gunk in the bottom of the glass. Yuck. That is tacky.
We don't like tacky in the South.  |
LOL.
We always made tea with simple syrup. Steep the tea in the simple syrup (2 cups water, 2 cups sugar) while it's hot, and then dilute with the necessary amount of water to get a gallon of tea.
The angels will rejoice.