Lemon Raspberry Tea

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• Ingredients
• 12-15 Black Tea Bags (I use Lipton Tea)
• 3 Lemons
• 1 C Raspberries
• 1/2 C Sugar (Optional)
• Water
• Instructions
• 1. Start by heating the hot water on the stove. I filled my entire tea kettle. If you don’t have a tea kettle it is about 10 cups.
• 2. While water is heating measure out one cup of raspberries and put in a blender with ½ cup of water.
• 3. Blend raspberries to a liquid.
• 4. Strain raspberries using a mesh strainer into the 1 gallon container that the tea will go into. Throw away the seeds. Next cut three lemons in half and squeeze into tea container. Drop the lemons into the container.
• 5. To make a gallon of tea you will need 12 to 15 bags of tea. * 6. Unwrap the tea bags and tie the strings together as best as you can.
• 7. Once the hot water has come to a boil take off heat and drop the tea bags into the water and steep for 5 to 8 minutes.
• 8. Once the tea has steeped for allotted time squeeze out the bags into the water, empty the tea into the gallon container and let that steep for another 10 minutes.
• 9. After 10 minutes take the lemons out of the container, and squeeze anymore juice you can out of them.
• 10. At this point I strained the tea with a mesh strainer twice to get out the lemon seeds and some of the pulp. But that is up to you if you want to do that or not.
• 11. Add water to the container until it is full. Taste it to see if you want to add sugar.
• I added ½ a cup of sugar to mine. You will want to add regular sugar at this point because the tea is warm and it will dissolve. If you are using artificial sweeteners you can wait until after it has chilled and add it as you drink it.
• 12. Refrigerate until cool enough to drink. The pulp will settle. Just stir, you won’t really notice it when drinking. It is not a heavy pulp like orange juice.

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