resolutions? ~ Bron--Here's the first 'un, Icetea : )

[Guest guest]

Okay, PT, I will share. :>) I'm glad you liked readin' my post " as always " ,

in particular. That has a certain RING to it, don't cha know!

 

Icetea

 

Take a gallon pitcher and a four cup measurin' Pyrex cup. Get a box of

Luzianne (favored highly by many Southerners, including this 'un) decaf

family size bagged tea, and a bag/box of organic sugar all together on your

cabinet top. ( I prefer Florida Crystals.) Take five teabags out of the box.

Pour spring water, preferably lukewarm, into the Pyrex cup up to the fill

line at the top. Put your detagged teabags (now, there's a rhyme for ya!)

into the water and nuke the cup for between 4 minutes and 30 seconds to 5

minutes. When the tea is dark brown it's ready, so you'll have to check the

first time or so with your eyes on that.

 

Take the Pyrex cup out of the nuke machine and let it sit for about two

minutes, mashing down the teabags with a wooden spoon a little. Then pour

the tea concentrate into your pitcher. Put about 1 and a half cups of the

sugar into the tea and stir it real good with a wooden spoon, until you can

see and hear the crystals are dissolved. (No more crunchin' sounds!) Taste

and see if it's as sweet as you like it. If not, add more sugar and repeat

the mixing process with the wooden spoon. If so, pour enough spring water to

fill the pitcher to the top (preferably cold) and stir again to incorporate

everything. If desired, add ice. Either serve yourself and/or others now, or

stick the pitcher in the fridge to mellow out until you're ready to have a

draft of this most refreshing beverage. And when you are, the Southern

persuasion has ours with lots of ice!

YIELD: one gallon tea, what I have heard referred to as " the classic house

Southern wine " :>)

 

 

 

 

On 1/3/06, ~ PT ~ <patchouli_troll wrote:

>

> i had fun reading your post, as always. Now i want all

> of those recipes you made for that after-church dinner.

> Please share!

>

> ~ pt ~

>

> Happiness comes more from loving than being loved;

> and often when our affection seems wounded it is only

> our vanity bleeding.Ê To love, and to be hurt often, and

> to love again --this is the brave and happy life.

> ~ J. E. Buckrose

> ~~~*~~~*~~~>

> , <southernflower@g...> wrote:

>

> > But we did have a special New Year's Day dinner, and we invited a new

> friend

> > from church, a lady who has been very lonely, we've been finding out. So

> > since we were without family too, we have been getting acquainted with

> her

> > and enjoying each other's company. She has been gradually getting used

> to

> > the idea that we are vegans and that it is not as freaky as it may seem

> at

> > first glance. LOL

> >

> > I fixed everything vegan, and this is what we had on Sunday after church

> > service:

> >

> > Icetea with organic sugar

> > Homemade biscuits (White Lily, no less!) with soy margarine, organic

> > blackberry and strawberry jam

> > Fried green tomatoes

> > Mashed taters with skins on and a delicious Onion-Mushroom Gravy,

> " Cream "

> > style, from my Southern Vegetarian cookbook (it's a reallll keeper and I

> > plan to make it OFTEN! Tastes the same consistency as old-style cream

> gravy,

> > but with a much better flavor!)

> > Tomato-Vegetable Gumbo served over Brown Rice

> > Blackeyed peas (traditional Southern thang, tradition for 'good luck' in

> the

> > New Year)

> > and

> > Naner puddin', also from the Southern Vegetarian cookbook

>