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"Sun Tea"
John Egerton once said: "Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice and hot weather crossed paths." Iced tea was first served at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

Today, we make "Sun Tea" by hanging tea bags in a lidded jar of water. We leave the jar to sit out in the sun a few hours.

In case there is no sun on the day you want to make iced tea - this is a more traditional recipe, but feel free to experiment with sun tea in your yard.

4 cups water
6 tea bags (herbal like MINT also works well)
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 cups cold water
Ice cubes
Lemon slices
Fresh mint leaves

1. Bring the water to a boil in 3-quart saucepan. Remove from
the heat. Tie all the tea bags together with their own strings.
Submerge the tea bags in the hot water. Let the tea steep for
15 minutes or longer if you prefer strong tea.

2. Remove the tea bags and add the sugar while the tea is warm.

3. Pour the cold water into a 2-quart plastic jug, add tea. Let diluted tea come to room temperature to prevent cloudiness, then refrigerate until needed.

4. Serve tea in a glass pitcher or the sun tea jar. Pour over ice cubes in tall glasses. Decorate with thin lemon slices and mint leaves.

Serves 4

~The Rebecca Review