What’s the best way to make a delicious ice tea?
There are wide varieties of iced tea recipes. Making ice tea is similar to making hot tea. However, since the melting ice will increase the volume of water, 50% more tea must be used. After adding ice into the tea, tea should be kept in room temperature. Ice tea should be used within 3 hours or the ice tea would become iced water.
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The strength of ice tea can be varied according to the amount of tea are added. To add more flavors into your tea, there is a wide range of unique ice flavors you can choose like vanilla, bergamot, peach, mango, ginger, and grape…
What kind of tea is used as based tea?
In iced tea, tea that is often used as base tea is varieties of black tea and green tea like Gunpowder and Sencha. This page consists of 9 delicious and refreshing iced tea recipes.
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Orange-peel iced tea
This tea taste refreshing, a bit bitter, with a touch of sweetness, and a hint of orange fragrance.
For this iced tea recipe, you will need:
* 3 teaspoons of tea (prefer green tea)
* 0.5 L of water
* 1 orange
* Rock sugar
What to do…
1) Boil the water; let it cool down for 3-5 min. Pour the water into the tea leaves on a pot .Let it stands for 4-5 min. Then separate the tea leaves from the brewed tea water
2) Squeeze the orange, save the peels. Pour the orange juice and put some rock sugar into the brewed tea water. Stir for 1 minute.
3) Pour the mixture tea into a bowl and place it into the refrigerator until ready to use. Grate the orange peel into small bits.
4) Put ice into 2 tall glasses. Pour the tea into the glass. Decorate with finely chopped orange peel.
Ice tea punch
This recipe is easy to make and great for outdoor or indoor party. For this iced tea recipe, you will need:
* 0.4 L of water
* 1 tablespoons of tea (3 bags of instant tea)
* 1 cup of orange juice
* 1/4 cup of lemon juice
* 1/4 cup of sugar
* 0.2 L of ginger ale
What to do…
1) Boil the water in the pot, let it stand for 2 min. Add the tea and brew for 4-6 min. Put all of the other ingredients, except the ginger ale, into another pot
2) Pour the brewed tea water into the pot containing the ingredients. Prepare a bowl of ice. Pour the tea into the bowl
3) Add ginger ale and stir well before serving