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Sweet tea is a form of iced tea in which sugar or some other form of sweetener is added to the hot water before brewing, while brewing the tea, or post-brewing, but before the beverage is chilled and served. This variation of tea enjoys most of its popularity in the Southern United States, though bottled iced teas labeled "Southern Style" or "Extra-sweet Southern Style" appear in refrigerated cases throughout the country. Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 283 KB) A glass of Twinings Ceylon Orange Pekoe cane sugar ice cubes. ...
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Sweet tea and the American South
Sweet tea has long been a staple beverage in the American South; most family-style and fast food restaurants in the region offer the customer a choice of sweet tea or unsweetened iced tea. It is a signature drink of the region, to the point where the Southern use of the word "tea" is largely used to refer specifically to cold, sweet tea and not to hot or unsweetened varieties. Its widespread use is probably due to its light taste, ease of preparation and low cost. The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking. ...
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An important part of the tradition of sweet tea in the South is the fact that it can be made in large quantities, easily several gallons, quickly and inexpensively. It is usually consumed daily as a staple soft drink or for a group situation or at family meals, helping to tie it directly back into the culture from which it comes. Because it is relatively cheap, some restaurants place a pitcher of sweet tea on the table for the entire dinner party to share, and keep refilling it for free. Even when served in individual glasses, sweet tea "refills" are freely provided.
Iced tea is normally served unsweetened throughout the rest of the United States, though it is moderately common to add a small amount of sweetener to the already cold tea. Much pre-bottled and pre-canned tea, though, comes with sweetener (sugar, honey, some artificial sweetener, or a combination) mixed in. A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food. ...
It is important to note that although sweet tea (as a moderately watered, sugar pre-added, iced drink) is stereotypically a South-Eastern United States tradition, many tea cultures add sweeteners to their tea.
Making Southern-style sweet tea The recipe for sweet tea varies from household to household. In fact, the amount of tea, the time steeped, whether or not the tea is boiled in the pot, and the amount of sugar can widely vary every time a particular person makes tea. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
A typical recipe involves bringing water to a boil, and then adding tea to steep. This tea is almost always dustings/fannings of Orange Pekoe bought specifically in cheap tea-bag form as an "iced tea" blend. The amount varies, of course, but in general it would be about twice as much as one would use for brewing hot tea. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
After it steeps (or in some cases, boils, though continued boiling of the tea tends to make it bitter) for whatever time is deemed necessary, it is then mixed with sugar in water to fill the pitcher. A lot of Southerners put about a cup of sugar to the half gallon. Some add more or less depending on taste, or might use artificial sweetener to some degree (half and half sugar with Splenda, for instance). Sugar in this case is almost always refined, granulated sugar. It is only rarely unrefined sugar or honey. Southerners almost never add milk or creamer of any sort to their tea. Some prefer to leave the tea in the pot, with or without the bags, so that it can be diluted or sweetened by the glass. This accommodates different tea drinkers that take sugar or artificial sweetener, from the same pot. It also prevents souring of the tea for a longer period of time than adding sugar to a diluted pitcher of brewed tea. Sucralose is a non-caloric sweetener about 600 times sweeter than sucrose. ...
The end result is a tea in which the sweet factor overpowers the tea-taste factor and its characteristic bitterness. To prevent the bitterness in tea do not put the tea in water that is over 95 degrees C (or 200 degrees F). To this, lemons or lemonade might be added. In some cases, slightly sweetened tea with mint is served. Other fruit juices are occasionally added (making "tea punch").
Restaurants, and tea-making devices, tend to run hot water through tea in much the same way as a standard coffee maker would with coffee, and then add sugar and additional water to the restaurant's recipe.
Black tea, according to Lipton, has about 30-40 mg of caffeine per 8 oz. Considering that sweet tea is usually watered down to about half strength, it would be reasonable to say that it has only about 50 mg or less of caffeine per 16 oz glass. For people named Lipton, see Lipton (surname). ...
So-called "cold-brew" tea bags are not actually brewed at all, but enable sweet tea to be made without heating water. If granulated sugar is used to sweeten cold-brewed tea, it must be stirred sufficiently to dissolve completely, or it may be pre-disolved in a little hot water. The quality of water used in cold-brew teas is particularly important because it does not benefit from the purification effects of boiling.
Sweet tea elsewhere In the mid-2000's, McDonald's Restaurants began a major marketing campaign for sweet tea, making it available throughout the U.S. and selling it for approximately two-thirds the price of the chain's other large-size cold beverage offerings. The sweet tea caloric information is not available on the popularly distributed nutrition info sheet. According to the company's website, McDonald's sweet tea has 230 calories.
Many, if not most, restaurants in the northeastern states sell sweet tea, though perhaps only in bottles.
History The oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree. This recipe calls for green tea. In fact, most sweet tea consumed during this period was green tea. However, during World War II, the major sources of green tea were cut off from the United States, leaving them with tea almost exclusively from British-controlled India which produces black tea. Americans came out of the war drinking nearly 99 percent black tea.[citation needed] Year 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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- (a) As used in this Code section, the term 'sweet tea' means iced tea which is sweetened with sugar at the time that it is brewed.
- (b) Any food service establishment which serves iced tea must serve sweet tea. Such an establishment may serve unsweetened tea but in such case must also serve sweet tea.
- (c) Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.
Chinese sweet tea There is also a Chinese sweet tea - an herbal tea which is made from the leaves of Chinese Blackberry (Rubus suavissimus). These leaves contain a natural sweetener, called rubusoside, which is 200 times as sweet as cane sugar. The tea has long been used to alleviate kidney symptoms, and a recent Japanese study also indicates that it has anti-inflammatory effects and helps against allergies. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
See also The cuisine of the Southern United States is defined as the regional culinary form of states generally south of the Mason-Dixon Line easterly to the state of Texas. ...
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