This is not a recipe but a formula, because as you will learn Balance and harmony are the essential truths of great drinks, and that you cannot measure. The formula that I learned from girlhood is how I still make it. As a family we area strongly brewed, not too sweet, lemon kissed iced tea crew.
Ingredients
15Black tea bags
3LemonsJuice and peel only (no pith)
1/2teaspoonBaking Soda
Instructions
Place the above in a screw top gallon jar, half filled with filtered water, fingertip tightened, sit in the sun until the brew is mahogany in color.
Then after the correct brew is achieved you remove the peel and spent bags, add 1 2/3 cups of white sugar, the juice of the 3 lemons that you zested.
Stir until dissolved. Taste for balance.
When satisfied fill the jug the rest of the way with cold filtered water. Serve over glasses groaning with ice.
Notes
Now fast track a few decades to today. My routine is now to make low sugar iced green tea. My hubbs needed the antioxidants and good belly joy of green tea in his daily routine. It keeps him hydrated and refreshed. It is so easy to flavor, he never gets tired of drinking it.