Paula Deen, Carolina Mama's and McAlister's Sweet Tea

Paula Deen's Sweet Tea

7 tea bags

1 cup sugar

mint springs

lemon wedges

Bring 4 cups water to a boil in a kettle. Add the 4 tea bags and turn off the heat immediately.

Place the lid on the kettle and allow the tea to steep for 1 hour. Remove the tea bags and pour the tea into a pitcher. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve.

Add 4 cups water. Serve over ice with a spring of mint and a lemon wedge.

Makes 2 quarts, about 10 servings.

Carolina Mama's Sweet Tea

8 Luzanne Tea Bags (ode to the home State)

1 cup of Sugar

Lemon wedges

Bring a quart of water to boil in a tea kettle.  Pour over the tea bags in a glass container (Pyrex - herein lies my secret! :)

Steep for 10 minutes.  Remove tea bags.  Add sugar stir until dissolved.   In a glass pitcher pour a quart of cold water, and then pour the tea/sugar

mixture in and stir.  Serve over ice.  Add lemon if desired and we really do pick a sprig of Mint off of the back porch and put in occasionally. 

McAlister's Sweet Tea get there, get some and be converted! Live the life!
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Thanks Jenny @ A Latte Talk got this started with her "Foody Friday" round up of favorite drinks. Water is primo but ya'll have to try the Southern Sweet Tea, Enjoy!
Warmly, Carolina Mama

You Can Call Me Sweetie Anytime

Carolina Mama has no problem with being called "Sweetie!" You can call me "Sweetie" anytime. Is it me, or is the media just allowing the desire for "15 minutes of fame" to be perpetuated. Apparently, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama referred to a reporter as "Sweetie" in Detroit while touring a auto manufacturer. Is it just me, or is this deemed news to most folks? It seems to me a glorified attempt at a newstory. Or an attempt at a few minutes in the limelight.

Of course, I'm revealing my Southern nature where "Sweetie" is not an issue. Sweet Tea. Sweet Me. Sweetie. In fact, this morning it was prior to this news break, I was visiting my local Starbucks when I was informed the brew I was waiting for had just run out and my Barista was brewing a fresh pot. Before Carolina Mama knew it, I replied, "Dear, not a problem." Fortunately, I didn't get called out, but you know I am not Barack Obama or anything. And I do live in Dixie, maybe that is the issue here. Michigan, North Carolina Michigan, North Carolina.... I'm just saying... and somehow I just know my Barista will be waiting on me tomorrow morning without a bit of dismay over being called "Dear" by Carolina Mama. Just wondering if they will have the same complaints in Kentucky? Will Kentucky reporters make a national issue of a "Sweetie" slip?... I'm just saying.