I guess I should say “Chilled Green Tea”, really. I was in the kitchen early this evening and I thought I’d use a few of my green tea pouches to make a jug of iced tea. I drink it all the time at work but I had never really thought about making my own. I plugged in my electric kettle and I patiently waited for it to whistle. While I was waiting I placed two satchels of green tea into a large jar and sang a little bit of music to pass the time. When the kettle started to whistle I unplugged it and filled the jar up with boiling water. I was originally going to use a large container, but I thought the lid on the jar might be nice since I was going to be leaving it to cool on the counter for a few hours. Once the jar was full I let the tea bags swim for about 5 minutes until I had a nice golden brown liquid brewing. I took the tea bags out and plopped them into the trash can. It was then I decided I would add my ingredients. After all, it’s really not enough to just have cold green tea, is it?
I added two tablespoons of regular white sugar, and a large squeeze of honey from the bottle in the cupboard. I gave it a large stir and then put the jar’s lid back on, but not tightly. I wanted to let the steam vent a bit because it was really hot. After doing this I went to the freezer and took out an ice tray. It still had one or two cubes left in it, but I decided that wasn’t enough to ice my tea once it had cooled. I ate the two ice cubes (I love doing that) and filled the tray up with water before sticking it back in the freezer. A few hours later and…presto! Water to ice. By this time too my tea had cooled considerably, but was still quite warm. I popped the cubes out of the tray and put them into a large juice container on the counter. Then I had a brilliant idea! I grabbed a coffee filter from the cupboard beside the microwave and took the removable filter holding decide out of my coffee maker and held it over the juice container. I filtered out all of the little impurities you might find after brewing a cup of tea (those stray bits you find in the bottom of your mug). This worked quite well, and the tea actually looked really smooth and tasty after as well (although it was probably just in my head). I put the juice container that was half full of tea into the refrigerator for an hour and went to watch some T.V..
When I returned it was quite cold, so I was ready to take a drink to see what all of my hard work had done. It was…pretty bland. Nothing new or interesting. I thought to myself “There’s get to be something more I can do to give it flavour!” So, I went for a dig into the refrigerator and what do I find? A bottle of lime juice. I had seen citrus flavoured green tea before. I figured that things couldn’t go too wrong if I added a squirt or six into the mix. Sure enough this was what it needed.
I now have half a jug of chilled green tea in my fridge that is quite tasty, and almost certainly never worth the work to make again. XD
