How to make…Sun tea

Sun tea is a summertime tradition in our house. And, while I made it a few times when I lived in the UK, I was the only one who drank it over there, so I didn’t get through as much of it as I do in the States, living back with my Dad.

Iced sun tea is an easy, tasty alternative to plain water and you can either use flavoured, herbal tea bags, or add a flavouring before or after steeping your tea in the hot summer sun.

Sweetening your drink is also optional. In cafes and diners you’ll often be given unsweetened iced tea and you can add as many little sachets of sweetener as you’d like. But here at home, we use honey to sweeten our tea after it has steeped.

Ingredients

1	gallon	Water
8	bags	Tea	(Any flavour. I used black tea in my recipe this time.)
		Honey	(To taste. I’ll use about ¼ cup to sweeten the gallon.)
16	sachets	Black Elderberry powder	(Completely optional, if you want to replicate my recipe from the tutorial video.)

Preparation

1. Use a clean, glass gallon jar and fill it with still water.
2. Add 8 bags of tea to the top, keeping the strings hanging down the outside rim of the jar.  Use more if you prefer a stronger, more intense flavour.
3. Add any additional ingredients that you would like to infuse into the drink, like the black elderberry flavour in my tutorial.
4. Close the lid and place in full sun for at least four hours.  The longer it steeps in full sun, the stronger the flavour.
5. When steeping is finished, bring it into the house, remove the tea bags (discard to the compost).
6. Sweeten the tea to taste.
7. Pour over ice cubes and enjoy.
8. Refrigerate for a nice cool drink during hot summer days.

Watch us make it

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