Well we will soon be at the end of this alphabet cooking series. I hope many have found it useful! Please post your "T" recipes. Anyone have any good ideas for flavored teas???

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), January 28, 2002

Answers

Ask and ye shall receive.....

You can always substitute artificial sweetener for the wicked nasty sugar!

Snapple Ice Tea

2 quarts (8 cups) water
3 Lipton tea bags (orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea blend)
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice

1. Boil the water in a large saucepan over high heat.
2. When the water comes to a rapid boil, turn off the heat, put the tea bags into the water, and cover.
3. After the tea has steeped about 1 hour, pour the sugar into a 2- quart pitcher, then add the tea. The tea should still be warm, so the sugar will dissolve easily.
4. Add the lemon juice. Chill. Makes 2 quarts

For Diet Lemon:
12 - 1 gram envelopes sweet n' low or equal
1/3 cup + 2 Tbsp lemon juice

For Orange:
3/4 cup sugar (or 1 16 oz. bottle light corn syrup)
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/8 tsp. Orange extract

For Strawberry:
3/4 cup sugar (or 1 16 oz. bottle light corn syrup)
1/3 + 1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp. strawberry extract

For Cranberry:
3/4 cup sugar (or 1 16 oz. bottle light corn syrup)
1/3 cup + 2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp Ocean spray cranberry juice-cocktail concentrate

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), January 28, 2002.

Thanks Cheryl! I do use real sugar, just trying to use less of it.

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), January 28, 2002.

I forgot to mention that those Snapple Teas recipes came from the Budget101 website - they also have a great forum on Yahoo Groups - all kinds of "Make Your Own" stuff.

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), January 28, 2002.