Red Rose Iced Tea

Back to basics on this one.

This one is a tribute to my Aunt Joyce who loved her Red Rose tea.

I am not a fan, but she loved it.  She had a cup every evening.  In honor of her, I am showing you how to make iced tea with her favorite, Red Rose.

8 tea bags or 8 t loose leaf

1 gallon water

optional- 1/4 C sugar

 Making the tea:

Place 8 tea bags or loose leaf tea (in a tea ball) in a gallon container, pour enough hot water (over 200 degrees) to cover the tea and for the tea leaves to move around. Let it steep for 10 minutes (you are basically making a concentrate).  After 10 minutes you pull out the tea, add the sugar, and then fill the remaining pitcher with cold water. It is one of the easiest things to make…and only takes 10 minutes no matter the type of tea.  Just check the water temperature, but the steep time is always 10 minutes.

 Put in the refrigerator to get cold and drink later or drink now with ice.

I received Aunt Joyce's blue cup after she passed.  Then I found a pink one at a thrift shop to go with it.  I love them together!!

I am now on the look out for others to go with this one.  It's unique and fun.  And you bet I will use it.  Tea cups are meant to be used and not just stored in a cupboard to be viewed.  Get them out and use them.  Think about where you bought them or the people who gave them to you.

I've heard my dad say he wished the dishes could talk.  He did buy one dish that had a photo in it and I believe a piece of paper to say where it was from.  I love that.  I want to put notes inside all my teacups to say where I got them and when.

1 Peter 4:10-11, ESV

10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.