Almond Iced Tea {& My Extract Addiction}

Give a picayune twist to your traditional sugariness tea amongst slow Almond Iced Tea.  It'll care you lot flavorfully shell the summertime heat!
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I'm a large fan of flavored iced teas.  Since I don't gulp coffee, iced tea used to locomote my caffeine of choice.  {I tell 'used to be' because I don't gulp caffeine at all anymore ... except on the really rare occasion.  Can you lot believe it??  So my iced tea is made amongst decaffeinated tea bags now-a-days.}  Anyway ... dorsum inwards my corporate-America days, when everyone else did their morning time java run I did my morning time tea run.  In the wintertime my 'run' was for a chai tea latte.  In the other seasons my 'run' was for an iced tea.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flavored iced tea, to locomote exact.
See, at that spot was a picayune java store inwards the antechamber of ane of the component division buildings I worked inwards that e'er had a 'flavor of the day' iced tea.  They'd write the day's flavor on their picayune chalkboard at the forepart of the shop, together with I'd eagerly expect reading it on my walk into the component division each morning.  After checking e-mails together with dealing amongst whatever urgent issues, it was my picayune morning time process {and pick-me-up} to brand a run downstairs to larn a tea.

I loved their blackberry iced tea best.  {Hmmmmm ... perhaps I'll involve to assay to copy-cat that!}

Since giving upwards caffeine, I don't gulp equally much iced tea equally I used to.  But when I do, I'm nevertheless a sucker for a yummy flavored tea.

Like this Almond Iced Tea that I tin easily whip upwards at home.

With only a fleck of almond extract together with vanilla extract, you lot tin plough regular ol' iced tea into refreshing almond flavored iced tea.  Easy-peasy.

Now, speaking of extract ... when I went to larn the almond extract to brand this tea I noticed that I ... good ... ummmm ... I may have got a small-scale occupation when it comes to extracts.

See, I kinda had a difficult fourth dimension finding  the almond extract.

'Cause I entirely have got similar a ba-zillion dissimilar extracts.  There's vanilla, of course.  And almond, of course.  And rum.  And butter.  And maple.  And source beer.  And coconut.  And strawberry.  'Cause you lot only never know when you're going to involve them.  Right?

Okay, okay, together with thence I entirely have got 12.  But still, that's a bunch of extracts.

I was truly a fleck surprised to come across that I had that many extract bottles lined upwards inwards my lazy susan cupboard.  I mean, when did they all arrive?  Certainly I  didn't purchase all those!  

Did I?  

Maybe they multiplied inwards the night!  You know, similar mint plants produce ... taking over anything together with everything inwards their paths.  Yes, that's got to locomote it.

But no.

Sadly, I scream upwards I have got to have got responsibleness for all the extracts that have got appeared inwards my cupboard.  I'm admitting to my addiction.

And patch mixing upwards this batch of Almond Iced Tea, I used upwards the final of the almond extract, too.  So I gauge I larn to catch the extract shelf on my adjacent trip to the grocery store!

I'll assay to demo restraint together with entirely larn the almond extract that I need.

But hmmmmmm, I don't have got raspberry extract yet ... together with you lot only never know when you lot only may involve it ...

Almond Iced Tea

Source:  Adapted from Carolina Sunshine: Then together with Now by the Charity League of Charlotte
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 4 tea bags {regular-sized dark tea}
• 1/3 c. granulated sugar
• water
• 1 & 1/4 tsp. almond extract
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 T. fresh lemon juice {optional}

Directions

1. Place the tea bags together with two cups of H2O inwards a drinking glass microwaveable criterion loving cup or bowl; microwave until boiling. {Or, pour boiling H2O over the iv tea bags.} Let cool to lukewarm. Squeeze out the tea bags into the tea liquid.
2. Place granulated carbohydrate inwards a 2-quart pitcher. Add almost 1/2 c. boiling or really hot tap water; stir until carbohydrate is dissolved. Add tea to the pitcher. Fill the residuum of the pitcher amongst mutual depression temperature H2O {to equal two quarts total}.
3. Stir inwards almond extract, vanilla extract, together with lemon juice {if using}.
4. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over H2O ice amongst a lemon wedge.

Note: Decaffeinated tea bags tin locomote used only fine.  Without the fresh lemon juice, you lot larn a sweeter tea amongst more-pronounced almond flavor.  The lemon tones the almond flavor downward only a touch.  I similar it both ways ... depending on my 'mood.' Try it each agency to come across which you lot similar best!

Enjoy!

Please relish these other summertime drinks from ...

Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea

Southern Sweet Tea

Classic Homemade Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade

Watermelon Moscato Slush

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