Smooth Sweet Tea

My husband is 100% southern born and raised. He loves his sweet tea and I have used this to keep up with the demand in our household.

I’ve been making this sweet tea since I was a child, my tea is almost exactly like this except I do not use the Baking soda , I boil the water in my little 16oz tea pot then turn the heat off and input my tea bags covering it with the lid for 30 min, put the sugar in the bottom of a 64 oz pitcher then pour in the still warm tea to desolve the sugar the fill the pitcher with water…. its ready to serve over ice …….. there is nothing on this earth more refreshing than a big ol tall glass of Texas sweet tea just like your Grandmother used to make.

I was introduced to sweet tea last year and have been in love with it ever since! This recipe is not only easy to make but it is also absolutely delicious! Thank you for sharing!

Delicious!!!

Doubled used 6 pitcher tea bags instead of 12 regular and swapped splenda granular instead of sugar. was delish and refreshing esp w a squeeze of lemon. I also used my infuser pitcher and added ripe (Must be ripe for better flavor) strawberries, mangos and/or peaches – Sha-Zam! Now you’re gettin’ fancy-pants!

Good -bye McDonalds. I make my own Thank you!!!

Doubled recipe to make two gallons. Perfect! No bitterness just a great glass of iced tea. Thank you for sharing.

Brilliant recipe 🙂 I added 2 small easy peel oranges and half a pineapple to my batch and it was beautiful. Will definitely be getting added to the recipe books!

I boiled in a sauce pan and steeped in there as well. Great tasting and exactly what I wanted.

Every time I visit the USA I miss the sweet tea when I return home. Now I make this and it is the same as I get in the Southern States. I love it. The baking soda makes it so it is never bitter.

This Recipe helped me achieve a perfect pitcher of iced tea with minimal effort so that why I put 5 stars although it could use a slight change. I reccomend adding two extra tea bags (I use Lipton) to give it more of a tea flavor. 6 bags leaves it tasting like sugar water with a hint of tea especially if you add ice to your cup. I do want to try 10 bags one day though to see If I like that even more but I don’t want to make a bad batch since I sip on it all day and go through a whole pitcher. If you drink a lot and are worried about calories Splenda works well using the same amount of that as you would real sugar but there are rumors about artificial sweetener being awful so I’ll leave that choice up to you.

Excellent.

My husband loved it so much I’m making more!

This recipe makes a great baseline though I made some tweaks! I used 2x the boiling water for my tea, and 5 cups ice. I steeped in a teapot, then poured over the ice i put in the pitcher. I think ice works better for ice tea recipes than cool water if you have an ice maker or easy way to get lots of ice. The tea is beautifully clear as you can see, and I thought it had great flavor and the perfect level of sweetness. I usually buy pure leaf sweet tea so that is what I was aiming to replicate 🙂

Been making this recipe for years with lemons, it’s perfection

Greetings from the Great White North. We call this iced tea in Canada not sweet tea (lesson learned on a trip to S.C.). Made as directed, very good, the canned version I buy up here is “lemon iced tea”so I added ⅛ cup of lemon juice from concentrate to the 8 cups with great results. Next time will try substituting Splenda for the sugar (or half sugar, half Splenda). Thank you

The best sweet tea recipe I’ve ever used! My all-time favorite!

I have made this recipe so many times in the past week, I’ve lost count. I love it. No other recipes I’ve tried for iced or sweet tea have been this consistently good. I must say that 6 tea bags made it a bit strong, so I cut back to 4 and it’s perfect. I think I read somewhere that Canadian tea bags are ‘bolder’ than American? Anyhow, I brew it in my 8 cup Pyrex measuring cup, then top it up with the 6 cups of cold water, then into a pitcher in the fridge. It does not last long in my house! Thanks for the recipe!

Five stars. I guess all this time I’ve been making iced tea wrong — that solid pinch of baking soda takes off the slight bitterness, and it’s a game changer! This recipe was so simple to follow, and the outcome is terrific. Many thanks.

Delicious! Just right!

I just made this tea and I’ll probably finish the pitcher by the end of the day!! The recipe is perfect exactly the way it is. Easy to make and doesn’t take much time. Thanks for the recipe.