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Don’t know about you but where I am it’s been a pretty mild summer. But the heat is coming soon, so here’s an adult summer slush drink for the hot days to come.
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 7 cups water
- loose leaf tea
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate
- 2 cups gin
Directions
- Put 7 cups water in large saucepan, and heat on high until boiling. Add sugar and stir until dissolved; set aside to cool. Place tea in 2 cups boiling water, and let steep until desired strength is acquired.
- In a large bowl, mix together sugar water, tea, lemonade concentrate and orange juice concentrate. Stir in gin. Place in freezer container and freeze overnight.
- To serve, Place several scoops into a tall glass, and fill with any clear carbonated beverage.
If you’re trying to cut back on caffeine use loose decaf tea. Serving a non-alcoholic crowd, try it with a fruit juice such as apple or guava juice.
The source of this recipe was allrecipes.com.
Until next time, happy steeping
This is a mock-tail recipe I found on a Monin syrup bottle. Hope you enjoy.
Cinnamon & Chai Milk
• .88 oz Cinnamon syrup
• .35 oz chai tea mix
• 8.5 oz milk
Mix in a glass filled with ice cubes.
All measurements are converted from milliliters so you may need to tweak the recipe to your taste.
What a dilemma. You like flavored tea but you don’t want it every day. And you don’t want to keep 4 or 5 different teas in the house. Consider using tea syrup.
The nice thing about having tea syrup on hand is choice. If you don’t want your tea flavored today, you don’t have to flavor it. If you want a stronger flavoring today, it’s your choice.
The potential drawback is that tea syrups will use sweeteners. Not to worry, the syrup manufacturers offer sugar free syrups for dieters and diabetics.
These syrups can also be used for flavoring coffee and in other cooking applications. Experiment, add some flavor in your life today.
Until next time – happy steeping.
One of the great things about tea is the wide variety of tea drinking experiences available. One of the increasingly popular tea possibilities is flavored tea.
Flavored tea (sometimes referred to as scented tea) starts with a tea to which is added flower petals and flavoring oils. Given the large number of flavoring oils available on the market today this makes for a large variety of flavored tea possibilities. While not all flavoring possibilities work well, there should be a flavored tea out there to tempt almost every one’s taste preferences.
Dieters and diabetics can enjoy flavored teas as the flavoring oils don’t use sweeteners.
Until next time – happy steeping.
Spring is just around the corner and it will soon be time to tune up your grills for outdoor cooking. Here are a few tips that will allow you to incorporate gourmet tea, into your grilling experience.
Concentrated tea can be used as a marinade for the meat. This has dual benefits, it both flavors the meat and detoxifies the carcinogenic HCAs created during the grilling process. Drink loose leaf tea with the meal and further acts to detoxifies any HCAs created during grilling.
Tea can be used as a smoking agent. Throw dried tea leaves on the charcoal to smoke the meat and add flavor to the meal.
Tea can also be used as a spice rub for the meat and be part of any sauces or secondary dishes served during the meal.
Until next time – happy steeping.