Southern Sweet Iced Tea, Hotel Style

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 12 cups cold water
• 15 cups boiling water
• 3 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/4 tablespoon baking soda
• 4 family-size tea bags

Recipe

• 1 gather supplies for tea.
• 2 realize that you are missing a measuring cup, and your pitcher is broken.
• 3 find replacement tools (coffee pot works great for measuring cup, and glass beer jugs for pitchers, and an automotive funnel to compensate for lack of a pitcher with a wide opening).
• 4 carefully measure 2 cups water using coffee pot, bring to a boil.
• 5 prepare 2 cups of sugar, funnel into large beer jug.
• 6 pour boiling water into coffee pot, realize you are now down to 1 cup of water-oh yea, vapor-- ooops.
• 7 fill pot back up, bring to a boil again.
• 8 carefully pour boiling water into coffee pot till you hit the 2 cup mark.
• 9 add in two"family size tea bags" and a pinch of baking soda, place lid on coffee pot, place beer jug on top to cover most of the holes.
• 10 after 15 minutes, remove tea bags, do not squeeze into pot, discard.
• 11 use funnel to add lukewarm teawater to sugar mix, ponder how bad of an idea it is to try to dissolve 2 cups of sugar into 2 cups of warm water.
• 12 cap beer jug, shake furiously, realize it is only halfway dissolved, fret.
• 13 pour mixture back into the coffee pot, stir vigorously.
• 14 decide the lukewarm water is what is killing you, place pot onto the coffee machine, turn on to heat water.
• 15 remove occasionally to check water warmth, stir often.
• 16 pour concentrated mixture into funnel aimed into another beer jug, with 6 cups of cold water.
• 17 cap, and shake well.
• 18 serve over ice.
• 19 cough due to sever sugar content, resolve to make the next batch better.
• 20 add water to put, bring to a boil.
• 21 measure 1 1/2 cups of sugar, and pour into ceramic beer stein.
• 22 when water is boiling use coffee pot to measure two cups.
• 23 gently pour into beer stein, stir vigorously till sugar is dissolved, do a small victory dance.
• 24 add a pinch of baking soda, and two family sized tea bags.
• 25 use a lid from a small pot, place upside down onto the stein to allow mixture to steep.
• 26 after allowing to steep for 15 minutes, use funnel to pour into beer jug#2, with 6 cups of cold water.
• 27 cap, shake well, serve over ice.
• 28 loudly proclaim victory over the tea, and decide that next round, you might just go for 1 1/4 cups of sugar.