southern iced sweet tea

original recipe courtesy grits.com

recipe can certainly be doubled, tripled or quadrupled, providing you have a large enough pitcher. (original recipe calls for less added water after steeping, and, instead, adding much more ice.)

makes approximately small carafe.

12 tea bags
2 cups cold water
1 cup sugar

place water, sugar and all of the tea bags into a pot and bring to a boil. once at a boil, remove from the heat and let steep. (check package directions on tea for appropriate steeping times.) once finished steeping, remove tea bags and pour mixture into iced tea jar once cooled

stir and chill.

serve with lots of ice and lemon (optional).