Best-Ever Sweet Tea

Ingredients (Makes 4 quarts = 1 gallon)

• 3 Family Size Lipton iced tea bags

• pinch of baking soda (optional)

• 4 cups boiling water

• 12 cups cold water

• *1 1/2 cups sugar (you can use less)

Directions

Drop a pinch of baking soda in the bottom of a heat-proof, one gallon pitcher (plastic pitchers are best when working with hot water).

In a small sauce pan, bring 4 cups of water to boil. Remove from heat, add tea bags and allow to brew for 15 minutes, dunking tea bags up and down a few times while brewing.

Remove tea bags, pressing out excess tea with a spoon. Transfer hot tea to pitcher, add sugar, stir and allow to dissolve completely.

Add 12 cups cold water and stir. Store in fridge until chilled. Serve over ice. Enjoy!

Tips

• Plastic pitchers work best - NEVER pour boiling water in glass pitcher that is not heat-proof, it may shatter.

• If you have an older plastic pitcher and/or are concerned about chemicals with hot liquids - use a larger sauce pan and add your sugar in the pan, when the sugar is dissolved, add it to the pitcher with the 12 cups of water already added.

• *Adjust sugar amount to desired taste. My girls like a little more sugar, but I always use less.

• Try different flavored tea bags, like peach. So good.

• If you like stronger tea, add an additional tea bag(s).