{"id":20928,"date":"2010-09-29T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=20928"},"modified":"2013-06-09T04:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T11:07:16","slug":"sweet-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/20928","title":{"rendered":"Low-calorie sweet tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/20928\/mehallo_sweettea\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32159\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mehallo_sweettea-425x294.jpg\" alt=\"mehallo_sweettea\" width=\"425\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mehallo_sweettea-425x294.jpg 425w, http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mehallo_sweettea-400x277.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Been making my own Sweet Tea. Traditional Southern style <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sweet_tea\" target=\"_blank\">sweet tea,<\/a> but without sugar. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my recipe &nbsp;. . . <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SweetTea_002.jpg\" width=\"280\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>mehallo\u2019s low-cal sweet tea<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>20 tea bags (I prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007TKV9E?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=213733&#038;creative=393177&#038;creativeASIN=B0007TKV9E&#038;linkCode=shr&#038;tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;=grocery&#038;qid=1370775905&#038;sr=1-5&#038;keywords=Yorkshire+tea\" target=\"_blank\">Yorkshire<\/a>)<br \/>\n4 oz. container <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BG017M8?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=213733&#038;creative=393177&#038;creativeASIN=B00BG017M8&#038;linkCode=shr&#038;tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;qid=1370775871&#038;sr=8-4&#038;keywords=Pure+Via\" target=\"_blank\">Pure Via stevia extract<\/a><br \/>\nDash baking soda<br \/>\nLots of filtered water<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>to make<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toss all in a large stock pot, fill with water. Bring to a boil, taste for sweetness. Adjust as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Simmer gently for 12 hours or so. Sweetner should caramelize and tea will turn dark brown. Baking soda will help keep things from going cloudy.<\/p>\n<p>Chill in fridge. Serve with ice. <\/p>\n<p>Final tea could be served strong &#8211; or use it as a concentrate, add water and ice when serving. (I prefer it strong)<\/p>\n<p>Variants: I&#8217;ve added honey, a few different types of tea (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoftea.com\/product.aspx?p=V00637\" target=\"_blank\">Pomegranate<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peets.com\/shop\/tea_detail.asp?rdir=1&#038;id=239&#038;cid=2003\" target=\"_blank\">something fancy<\/a>) to swap out the flavors a bit. Can also be served with mint or stevia leaves. Mixes great with lemonade.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mason jar photo found via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foodservicewarehouse.com\/the-gastronaut\/2010\/04\/17\/of-rice-and-men-dirty-south-style\/\"target=\"_blank\">The Gastronaut<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Low-calorie sweet tea\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/20928\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been making my own Sweet Tea. Traditional Southern style sweet tea, but without sugar. Here&#8217;s my recipe &nbsp;. . . Tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-culinary","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20928"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32162,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions\/32162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}