The New Southern Style Sweet Tea Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What makes southern sweet tea different? ›

Southern-style sweet tea relies on granulated cane sugar, which can be adjusted to taste. Granulated sugar, white or unbleached, works better than water-based simple syrups, which dilute the brew. Don't use just any old water for sweet tea; filtered or spring water eliminates any odd flavors in treated tap water.

Adding a little baking soda to your tea will clear away any cloudiness left from the mixing process, and it's also thought to cut down on any lingering bitter tastes from the steeping tea bags, leaving your tea clarified and smooth and providing your get-together with one fantastic pitcher of tea.

Southern Breeze Sweet Tea is sweetened with sucralose. Besides the sweetener, the only other thing you'll find is real tea leaves in every tea bag of Southern Breeze Sweet Tea. Every glass tastes sweet – Southern sweet and with a flavor that you'll crave glass after glass.

Which States Have Sweet Tea? It's believed that the states in which sweet tea is most popular and most widely consumed are Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.

Contains low calorie sweeteners: Stevia Extract.

Allow the tea bags to steep for 5-10 minutes. Remove the tea bags and stir in 1/2 packet Sweetly® Stevia. Mix well. Pour the tea/stevia mixture into a 1-gallon container and fill the rest of the way with cold water.

In conclusion, while both sweet tea and soda offer refreshment, sweet tea emerges as the healthier choice due to its natural ingredients, minimal additives, and potential health benefits.

Sugar is really detrimental in high doses but in small increments is not as bad for you. The benefits of tea are that they contain antioxidants to prevent cancer, heart disease, obesity, and high cholesterol but sweet tea has so much sugar it may negate some of the healthier benefits.

Lipton® family size Southern Sweet iced tea is blended in Virginia and pre-sweetened for a fresh-brewed, real Southern taste.

Splenda, or sucralose, is an artificial sweetener that people may use instead of sugar. While it may provide a safe alternative, growing evidence links it to side effects such as weight gain and digestive problems.

Why put a pinch of baking soda in sweet tea? ›

What is this? Baking soda neutralizes the tannins in black tea, giving it a smoother taste. This same trick works to take the bitterness out of green tea as well; you can add a teeny pinch to a mug of hot tea as it's steeping.

Theories abound: Southerners prefer sweet tea because back in the day we used sugar as a preservative and our palates grew to crave the taste. Southerners like sweet tea because it is served ice cold and it is hot as biscuits down here.

For 1 gallon, boil 1 quart water (32 ounces or 4 cups). Remove from heat and pour over 1 Luzianne Gallon Size Iced Tea bag (or 4 Family Size or 16 Individual Cup Iced Tea bags). Brew 3-5 minutes and sweeten to taste. Add 3 quarts cold water, stir and chill.

Theories abound: Southerners prefer sweet tea because back in the day we used sugar as a preservative and our palates grew to crave the taste. Southerners like sweet tea because it is served ice cold and it is hot as biscuits down here.

It wasn't until 1928 that sweet tea became the southern thirst-quencher of choice it is today. The well-known “Southern Cooking” cookbook published a sweet tea recipe that shifted iced tea from a refreshing beverage to a cultural staple.