This is adapted from Mrs Swindell's Famous Fruited Iced Tea, a recipe found on SOAR, original source The Dave Nichol Cookbook. The original recipe required freshly-squeezed orange juice, but with the quality of commercial juices available today, a good brand of orange juice is fine. Try to use a reasonably good-quality brand of teabags in this - PG Tips is OK, Tetley's isn't. I don't like over-strong tea, so I have reduced the number of teabags used in this recipe from 6 to 4. I also use less sugar than the original. A friend who normally hates tea likes this a lot.
Makes 1.5 litres (6.5 cups)
Make the tea - boil the water and pour it over the teabags. Steep for 5 minutes, then remove the teabags and leave the tea to cool.
Meanwhile, make the sugar syrup - heat the water and sugar together gently until the sugar is completely dissolved. Leave to cool.
Mix the tea, sugar syrup and juices together and chill well - best left overnight for the flavours to blend together. I like to keep this in a bottle in the fridge so it can be gently shaken to mix before serving.
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