Sun Tea

Total Time: 6 hrs 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 4 family-size tea bags (i know some people prefer one brand over the other, so you can decide which you prefer)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar or 1 1/4 cups splenda sugar substitute (or sugar/splenda mix)
• water, to fill container
• lemon wedge, for garnish

Recipe

• 1 you will also need: 1 gallon container or jug, with a screw on lid.
• 2 about 9am, fill your pitcher with the water, and tea bags.
• 3 the reason for the screw on top, is so that ants don't get to the tea.
• 4 let the tea sit in the sun for most of the day, a prime full sun location is best.
• 5 when bringing the tea in, boil one cup, and then mix it with the sugar (but, in the summer, the heat from outside can be enough to dissolve the sugar).
• 6 boiling the cup of tea only helps to make dissolving the sugar easier.
• 7 combine the sugar, tea, and more water to make one gallon.
• 8 serve with thick 1 1/2" wedges of lemon.
• 9 it usually takes 4-6 hours of being in the sun, in order to steep.
• 10 you can eye ball the tea, and bring it in, after the tea looks dark enough.
• 11 since the tea is best served cold, put it in the fridge right away.
• 12 it does not last as long as boiled tea for some reason.
• 13 and i usually leave the tea bags in the jug until the tea is gone.
• 14 then, i take the tea bags and sprinkle them in my flower garden, or over my roses.