Recipe ingredients and directions:

Following is my Dad’s recipe for iced tea, made with artificial sweetener

and in quantity, for Southerners who drink it three times a day.

JIMMY’S ICED TEA

(Serves approx 8)

Ingredients:

3 ea Family Size Tetly tea bags

(Substitute three regular bags for each "Family Size")

5 cups almost boiling water

9 1/2 grains saccharin tablets

( or Substitute other artificial sweetener. I currently use

9 packets of Equal/Nutrisweet)

1/3 cup sugar

Directions:

Add tea bags to near-boiling water; steep 10 minutes or longer.

Pour tea off, rinse bags with additional cold water so as not to waste any

tea. Add saccharin and sugar.

Pour individual, ice-filled glasses 1/4 to 1/3 full of tea and adjust

strength by judging color while adding water and tea as desired. Further

adjustments may be made by adding sugar and/or lemon juice as appropriate.

Note:

Tea seems to be better if water is heated in stainless pan, rather

than heavy aluminum.

A sprig of peppermint leaf really tops it off quite well!

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