Sweet tea is a style of iced tea commonly consumed in the United States, particularly South America. Sweet tea is made by adding sugar to a black tea bag brewed in hot water while the mixture is still hot. Tea is traditionally served ice cold; sometimes spiced, usually with peach, raspberry, lemon, or mint. Sweet tea can also be made with simple syrup and sometimes it is forged with baking soda to reduce the acidity of the drink.
Although sweet tea can be brewed with lower sugar and calorie content than most fruit juices and sugary sugars, it is not uncommon to find sweet tea with a sugar content of 22 brix (weight percent of sucrose in water), twice that of Coca-Soda.
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Sweet tea begins as a luxury because of the expensive nature of tea, ice and sugar. Ice is probably the most valuable of ingredients because it has to be sent from afar when access to cold drinking water has become a relative luxury. In modern times, can be made in large quantities quickly and cheaply.
The oldest known recipe for sweet iced tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree, who was born in Texas. The recipe is called green tea, because most of the sweet tea consumed during this period is green tea. However, during World War II, the main source of green tea was cut off from the United States (due to the Japanese invasion and occupation of green tea-producing regions), leaving them with almost exclusively tea from British-controlled Indians that produce black tea.. Americans come out of the war drinking most black tea. Sweet tea was once consumed as a blow mixed with liquor with mint flavor and cream, with mint julep being a close version of a punch drink with similar ingredients.
In 2003, allegedly an April Fool's joke, Georgia House introduced a bill that made it a "... a mild crime of high nature and exacerbated" to sell ice tea at a restaurant that does not also offer sweet iced tea on the menu. The bill never went into voting.
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See also
- Amacha (literally sweet tea ), Japanese drink
- Southern USA Cuisine
- Ice tea
- Lipton
- Luzianne
- Red Diamond
- Tea Order
- Tea
- Tortuga (cocktail)
- Regional Cuisine of the United States
References
Bibliography
- History of Iced Tea and Sweet Tea
- Household in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree. ISBNÃ, 1-4101-0508-3
- Slate's article on sweet tea
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