This is SWEET! If you don't love super SWEET, check the recipe in the description for the instructions. Just go to the the description and hit MORE...😀
OMG, My grandma used to make loose leaf tea that she boiled and strained and you are the first person that I have ever seen put baking soda in the tea just like she did!
Only Southerners KNOW sweet tea! I love a very large tall glass of fresh brewed Sweet tea over lots of cracked ice and a slice if lemon. I'm drooling. I actually prefer Luzi-Ann tea over Lipton. I drank a gallon of my keto friendly iced tea since yesterday. That's How I make it. I remove the tags before boiling the tea bags. It does have to be a strong concentrate to get that true southern flavor. I just gently squeeze with my bare hands that way you can't over squeeze those bags.
Okay 👌 I did it exactly as you said. It turned out wonderful! Thanks again so much. I would have never guessed to steeping tea for an hour. But will never do it any other way.💕🧋
I've been brewing all my life. I too use family-size tea bags. I use a coffee maker. Brew bags, dump pot, brew bags again, dump pot, add sweetener to taste. Makes about a gallon of tea. I brew 2 gallons every other day.
I'm in California and we put teabags in a mason jar of water and set it in the sun for 1-2 hours. Instant tea ready for the fridge. Us yanks don't sweeten our tea but I may have to try a Splenda packet and lemon. We do drink a lot of lemon water.
Sun tea is a good way also. You're lucky there that you have fresh lemons. I planted a Meyer lemon tree last year. Hopefully I'll get some lemons from it this year, but it's too cold to grow any other lemon trees here 😔
@@southernketo Lemons are cheap enough from the store certain times of the year. I'm close to desert temps so lemons don't do well where I live. Good luck on your tree.
Oh got you! Yeah, the temperatures have to be just right apparently... Thank you! I hope I get some lemons. They're supposed to come out here in December which is really weird @@NessaRossini...
We cook our tea in microwave. 4 family size tea bags in a large measuring cup of water for 4 minutes. I’ll leave out how much sugar we use (lol… I live in the south too) plus I’m about to start keto back.
I didn’t want to comment until I had actually made this. Now that I have, this is absolutely amazing!!! I’m going to try this with 1.5 c of the Magic Baker Sweetener (same as your Lemonade) and I think this is going to be absolute perfection!
Awesome! I'm so glad you took the time to let me know! I usually do 1.5 cups myself, but for the purposes of tasting like the ones you find in all the restaurants here, I use 2. Thanks again 😀
I live in the north..I'm 71 years old.. I've been making it this way all my life.. My grandmothers both made it this way.. I don't think it's just a southern thing. The only thing different I've been doing the past few years is substituting one of the big teabags for 3 or 4 regular green tea teabags. I want to drink some green tea because it's a healthy thing but I don't like green tea. Mixed with the black tea, I can't taste it. I mix it with hot tea too..and make it in a teapot.. Also use stevia to sweeten my tea.
That's good to know! I've had a lot of people I've met that move down here that have never done it or heard of it until they came here, including my wife. That's a good idea to get your green tea in. I haven't used pure stevia in any yet. Does the tea kind of help smooth out the stevia taste? I drink the Zevia colas and I just find a little bit of a weird taste that I don't get when it's blended...
@@southernketo Maybe I'm used to stevia.. I don't notice any taste difference... Maybe a little if I use too much. Seems like different brands take different amounts.. I've been using the Walmart kind for a while now. 2/3 cup to a gallon. I used to use a brand from Dollar General.. I liked it better. I'd use 10 packets. Very small amount was needed. I think if I'd pour them all together it was only a couple of teaspoons. They don't have it any more. I've used other sweeteners over the years. The only one I hated was Sweet n Low.. That saccharine stuff that came out first... That's nasty tasting stuff.
@@valeriegrubb3884I'll have to give it a try! I will only use erythritol, allulose, stevia, and monkfruit. Occasionally a little sucralose. Those chemical ones are nasty and terrible for you. I'll give some pure stevia a shot
I am going to try with the soda. I don't heat the water for cold tea, I just leave the tea bags for 45 minutes at room temperature and then I add the sweetener. Sometimes I add some mint leaves
I'm from upstate New York and I used to pick up Luzianne tea when ever I drove through the south, just for iced tea. I'll have to try your concentrate with Barry's Decaf tea now. I use sucralose or stevia drops once my extra long steep has cooled. I wouldn't worry about the tannins after one hour as they start to seep out into the tea anyway after the 5 minute mark. I too have a problem with sugar alcohols and allulose when the quantity is appreciable hence the drops when guzzling iced tea. Must try the little bit of baking soda!
@@southernketo The sucralose drops taste more like real sugar. I'm not real worried about the sucralose in a cold application. Some of the stevia drops taste very odd, one has a graham cracker smell and back note to me. I make my own solution with pure stevia powder. Still tastes a little bitter and vegetal but better.
@@southernketo I get online 25 percent solutions (1 drop is like 2 packets of sweetener with fillers). My current 16 ounce bottle is Sweet Solutions and I think I've purchased EZ Sweet in the past. Joe at 2krazyketos years ago said he preferred the flavor and noted it was without sugarlike fillers while using so little. It usually comes with a 2 ounce amber bottle with dropper to refill. From what I understand, a bit of sucralose denatures to a bad -6 version above 195 degrees but then February before last they linked erythritol to clotting issues so I try to use whatever tastes best and it least problematic for the food item's preparation as well as my tummy.
So here’s the thing by leaving them soak that long I could taste the paper from the tea bags , but adding that little bit of baking soda takes away any acidity, it has tanic acid in it it’s what gives it the brown color and bitterness, so using a tea ball eliminates the paper taste I was getting , then I started getting all fancy pants , I stated flavoring the tea with mint , or orange peel , and it was ok different but ok , yep even tried green tea , but southern tea is better.
Maybe the paper taste is what makes it so delicious 😂 Never have gotten a paper taste from it 🤷♂️ You mean a tea ball like for loose leaf tea? Try it with my lemonade that comes out tomorrow 😁 🍋
Amen brother ben,wetpre in nc and sweet tea is how we do it,but keto can ruin that,thank you for this,this was my son's and his daddy's all timecfave❤😊
Oh Wow, I’ve been making tea a long time but I never would have thought of steeping it for an hour. I thought it would make it bitter to steep that long. Tea is my favorite of all drinks. 🥤 And thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I will for sure give it a try. I am trying the keto diet so this will be a great help.🎉😊
I thought the same thing! You're very welcome! Make sure you read my notes in the description about the sweetness. Especially if you're new to keto.. It may be way too sweet so I would start with a cup and then use my notes after that 😁 You're very welcome! And I appreciate you watching 🙏🏻
Yessss, my Mom and her Grandmother made tea the same way. I don’t remember adding the baking soda part though? 🤔 I have a tea maker with its own pitcher that I make sweet tea in. I make it and add Stevia to it every time I make a glass. It never seemed like the Stevia mixed in the right way if I but it all in the pitcher premade. I’m going to do it your way and add in Magic Baker’s Blend and the baking soda next time! I’ve got the Luzianne tea now. Mom bought Lipton and Luzianne both. She also made “Sun Tea” sometimes too! Lol Remember that?
Oh awesome! I'll never seen a recipe that does it that way, but I feel like a lot of grandmothers and mothers did it that way and nobody recreated it. You can also dissolve the sweetener into boiling water and just keep it as a simple syrup to add to every glass if you want to make it by the glass. Yes! I made sun tea a couple of times
🤣 thanks! I love it! Curious, did you make it with the full amount of sweetener or less? You'll have to save a little to mix with some of my lemonade that I'm coming out with next week 🤫
Lemonade half and half will be good! I used 1 cup of the Splenda sweetener and then added a bunch of sweet drops because I only had the little bag of the Splenda blend and would have used the entire bag. So now I'm on a mission to figure out how to make a homemade less expensive blend of that magic bakers blend.
@@janp7660I agree! I usually bring liquid sweetener with me if I'm out of town or something and I use it in unsweetened tea. Definitely not as good, but a whole lot cheaper and it will serve the purpose 😁 I need to work on a sweetener blend
In Canada, we have the artificial drink Iced Tea or Iced Lemon Tea. And I buy the Diet Lemon Iced Tea and then water it down by half. Never had southern Sweet Tea....
I love lemon 🍋 in it! Well, if you get real Southern sweet tea, It is sweeter than most people can stand. That's why the South has the biggest incidence of diabetes in the country. There's no lack of sugar and carbs down here 😞
I'm reading up on Keto, still learning. But in reading the label on Magic Blend, it 8g carbs per 2 teaspoons. Wouldn't a glass of tea have a lot of carbs? Or do you not count carbs if it's an artificial sweetener?
I'm really not sure.. those are made to be steeped cold for 8 to 12 hours. They put more tea in them and it is a thicker bag. It would probably just cancel out but it may not brew as strong in boiling water. I'm really just guessing based on the way they are made... If you try it, let me know 😁
To whom it may concern, Take all 16 teabags, snip the strings and 'hey, presto'! You can drop the teabags in the pot and fish them out when ready. This is just in case you lack the ginormous teabags. 😅😊
You're welcome! It's definitely a splurge for me too. I normally drink Zevia or LaCroix, etc. But definitely in the summer, I like to do this or some lemonade 😁 what sweetener do you use?
I sweeten mine with real stevia powder, pure with no additives. 1/8th tsp. per gallon plus 4 tablesppons of allulose. Not very expensive. I make a gallon a day and only have to buy stevia once a year because it's extremely sweet. Adding the allulose seems to take away any bitterness the stevia might have. I hope that helps. I can't live without my tea!
@@southernketo Liquid EZ-Sweetz Concentrate or Hard Rhino has pure powder. I would bet that either would be a great choice- no maltodextrin in either option. I use the liquid EZ-Sweetz drops all the time and really love them, still haven't tried the powder, but it's in my cupboard waiting on me! You should look up Piper & Leaf tea out of Huntsville, Alabama. They brew their teas as a concentrate and it's an awesome game changer!
@@thewebstylist thanks! Yes, there's no price you can put on your health anyway. 😁 I would estimate the cost would be from $1.75-$2.75 depending on what sweetener you use for 24 oz. I usually have about 8 oz at a time.
If it’s good enough for your Nana, then it’s good enough for me. 😀 But Victor….where’s the cottage cheese? 🤔 I’m sure there’s some in there somewhere. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s my only bad thing I do. It’s been 41 days no soda. Darn. I drink Zevia but haven’t tried that flavor. I know you shop at Walmart, they sell “gallon” size tea bags inline/store. I drink a lot of fluids. I ALWAYS experience gastric issues with Allouse sugar.
@@southernketoyou said half gallon the first time but I think you switched to gallon after that. I was paying attention! 😊 Thanks for the recipe; this Yankee girl is gonna try it out!
Um, most places offer sweet tea up north. So saying sweet tea doesn't really exist outside the south makes no sense. Sure there was a time you had to put your own sugar in tea, but restaurants offering sweet or unsweet tea has been a pretty widespread thing since the mid 90s. Like at all McDonald's who have fresh lemon slices for it as well.
Maybe I just went to the wrong places then...🤷♂️ The spots I visited in Chicago and New York had no clue. Of course, I'm not going to McDonald's unless I absolutely have no other choice, so maybe they do 🤷♂️. Now, I would just get unsweetened and I always keep the liquid sweetener with me.
The reason we look at you like you have three heads is because the tea is so sweet it'll rot your teeth or give you diabetes as you so aptly pointed out. You'll eat too much sugar. Way too much. Having said that? I went to a place here in central California that served Louisiana sweet tea. I get why you like it. It's got this smooth honey like taste. Still too sweet but I do get it. There's something very special about louisiana. We can now get it here and I make iced tea with diluted honey and lemon. Don't knock it till you've tried it.
😂 Facts! The sugar manufacturers would go broke without the Southern United States 😂 I usually mix mine with my lemonade half and half. Normally, I don't make mine sweet as this recipe, but it's the taste people are used to. I'll usually cut the sweetener in half to one cup. I'll have to check out Louisiana sweet tea. I haven't heard of it.
@@southernketo that was spell check. I meant to say Luzianne. We pick lemons fresh every year. Juice them and freeze them. I make a lemonade concentrate out of them with honey instead of sugar and add it to unsweetened tea. They like to call it an Arnold Palmer but I've been drinking that stuff since I was a kid. And I'm from oregon. Also, it would not hurt for the sugar industry to go broke. They know how to produce sugar that isn't near as harmful as the stuff they're doing. Here they call it evaporated cane juice. It's basically unprocessed white sugar. The difference is enough to make the effort. I wish you the best! Y'all are Swedish sugar but I think it's cuz you got sugar in your veins!
@southernketo one more thing that you might be interested in. Check out Monk Fruit sweetener. By Lakote I think it is? I can't use aspartame and most of the sweeteners on the market but the monk fruit has a texture and taste very similar to sugar without harmful side effects. It's actually quite good. You can use it in baking as well. I think it's sweeter than sugar? But it certainly is an acceptable alternative.
Oh gotcha! Yep, my autocorrect just did the same thing 😂 I wish they would go broke! That would solve 80% of our country's health problems. Thank you so much! I want to visit Oregon one day. It's really pretty up there 😁
@@ConstantCompanionYes! I use whatever sweetener is on sale and that one by Lakanto is mostly erythritol with a little bit of monk fruit in it. I like it too. That Magic Baker's is my favorite though 😁
I agree! That's why none of the ones I use are chemicals 😁 I would never use saccharin, aspartame, maltodextrin, dextrose, or anything like that. Only sugar alcohols.
@@southernketo Sucralose, used in this recipe, is not a sugar alcohol. It’s chemically altered sucrose. Chlorinated sucrose, to be exact. It also is so much sweeter that it’s been found to make you crave sweets even more than sugar. I don’t get how this is a good option.
@@amyk87there's no sucralose in Splenda's Magic bakers Blend. I think you're confusing that with regular Splenda which has sucralose and maltedextrin. The Magic bakers is a blend of erythritol, allulose, and stevia only 😁
@@amyk87I usually pass right by the Splenda stuff because of all their crappy ingredients. Then, that one, on one day and I picked it up and was totally surprised when the ingredients didn't have the junk in them. Maybe these companies are following listening to us!
This is SWEET! If you don't love super SWEET, check the recipe in the description for the instructions. Just go to the the description and hit MORE...😀
OMG, My grandma used to make loose leaf tea that she boiled and strained and you are the first person that I have ever seen put baking soda in the tea just like she did!
Awesome! Yeah, I know it helps make it crystal clear, but I also think it adds to the flavor 😁
That`s the way my Mom made it when I was a child and I`m 85. It`s the southern way.
I thought it was probably the true Southern way 😁
@@southernketo Yes it is.
@@chlorismcgahee1366 awesome! Glad I can keep it going 😁
Only Southerners KNOW sweet tea! I love a very large tall glass of fresh brewed Sweet tea over lots of cracked ice and a slice if lemon. I'm drooling. I actually prefer Luzi-Ann tea over Lipton. I drank a gallon of my keto friendly iced tea since yesterday. That's How I make it. I remove the tags before boiling the tea bags. It does have to be a strong concentrate to get that true southern flavor. I just gently squeeze with my bare hands that way you can't over squeeze those bags.
Yes! What sweetener do you use in yours?
Hi from Germany.....using decaff black tea, making concentrate, sweetened with pure stevia crystals and off we go.
Hello there! 👋🏻 Sounds great!
The best iced tea ever is cold-brewed…it’s never bitter…smooth & clear. Sweeten with a simple syrup as desired.
I'll have to try that... This one isn't bitter at all
I’m from deep East Texas and my mom always used this method to make sweet tea and I believe my sister still does 🙂
Awesome! I really like it! I've tried making it different ways and I feel like this makes it the best 😁
GOD BLESS TEXAS!
@@mike1968442 yes! 🇺🇸
Okay 👌 I did it exactly as you said. It turned out wonderful! Thanks again so much. I would have never guessed to steeping tea for an hour. But will never do it any other way.💕🧋
Awesome! Me either! So glad you love it as much as I do 😁
I've been brewing all my life. I too use family-size tea bags. I use a coffee maker. Brew bags, dump pot, brew bags again, dump pot, add sweetener to taste. Makes about a gallon of tea. I brew 2 gallons every other day.
Nice! Sounds like you like tea as much as I do. 😁 There's nothing like it
I love super sweet tea with a slice of lemon 🍋 grew up on it, always had it in the fridge 😊
And I use two of the giant size tea bags - the gallon size bc I like it very strong
Yes! Me and you both. 😁
Yes! And Why not? #dontdrinkweaktea 🤣
I'm in California and we put teabags in a mason jar of water and set it in the sun for 1-2 hours. Instant tea ready for the fridge. Us yanks don't sweeten our tea but I may have to try a Splenda packet and lemon. We do drink a lot of lemon water.
Sun tea is a good way also. You're lucky there that you have fresh lemons. I planted a Meyer lemon tree last year. Hopefully I'll get some lemons from it this year, but it's too cold to grow any other lemon trees here 😔
@@southernketo Lemons are cheap enough from the store certain times of the year. I'm close to desert temps so lemons don't do well where I live. Good luck on your tree.
Oh got you! Yeah, the temperatures have to be just right apparently... Thank you! I hope I get some lemons. They're supposed to come out here in December which is really weird @@NessaRossini...
I am going to try your southern keto tea 🫖 today. I will update you on how it turns out. 🙏🇺🇸🍀
Great! I hope you enjoy it! 😁
I just made a gallon of tea today. I have to make it about every three days even though it's just me.
How much sweetener do you put in yours?
@@southernketo 10 Pyure organic stevia packets
@@kimlackey4135 thank you!
@@southernketo I don't drink mine very sweet, so you will probably have to add more packets.😀
@@kimlackey4135 probably! I like mine to taste like it is in a Chinese restaurant 😂 That's pretty much the sweetest tea in the world 🤣
I can't wait to try this, have been avoiding my tea drinking because I DO love it sweet, thank you!
Awesome! Check out my recipe in the description in case you don't like it as sweet as I do 😂
Never heard of the baking soda, love me some sweet tea
How much sweeter do you put in yours for the same amount?
We cook our tea in microwave. 4 family size tea bags in a large measuring cup of water for 4 minutes. I’ll leave out how much sugar we use (lol… I live in the south too) plus I’m about to start keto back.
Try this hour steep.. I think you'll like it 😁 try this once you start keto back 😋 you'll love it!
My favorite drink
Yes! I love it! 😁
I didn’t want to comment until I had actually made this. Now that I have, this is absolutely amazing!!!
I’m going to try this with 1.5 c of the Magic Baker Sweetener (same as your Lemonade) and I think this is going to be absolute perfection!
Awesome! I'm so glad you took the time to let me know! I usually do 1.5 cups myself, but for the purposes of tasting like the ones you find in all the restaurants here, I use 2. Thanks again 😀
I live in the north..I'm 71 years old.. I've been making it this way all my life.. My grandmothers both made it this way.. I don't think it's just a southern thing. The only thing different I've been doing the past few years is substituting one of the big teabags for 3 or 4 regular green tea teabags. I want to drink some green tea because it's a healthy thing but I don't like green tea. Mixed with the black tea, I can't taste it. I mix it with hot tea too..and make it in a teapot.. Also use stevia to sweeten my tea.
That's good to know! I've had a lot of people I've met that move down here that have never done it or heard of it until they came here, including my wife. That's a good idea to get your green tea in. I haven't used pure stevia in any yet. Does the tea kind of help smooth out the stevia taste? I drink the Zevia colas and I just find a little bit of a weird taste that I don't get when it's blended...
@@southernketo Maybe I'm used to stevia.. I don't notice any taste difference... Maybe a little if I use too much. Seems like different brands take different amounts.. I've been using the Walmart kind for a while now. 2/3 cup to a gallon. I used to use a brand from Dollar General.. I liked it better. I'd use 10 packets. Very small amount was needed. I think if I'd pour them all together it was only a couple of teaspoons. They don't have it any more. I've used other sweeteners over the years. The only one I hated was Sweet n Low.. That saccharine stuff that came out first... That's nasty tasting stuff.
@@valeriegrubb3884I'll have to give it a try! I will only use erythritol, allulose, stevia, and monkfruit. Occasionally a little sucralose. Those chemical ones are nasty and terrible for you. I'll give some pure stevia a shot
I am going to try with the soda. I don't heat the water for cold tea, I just leave the tea bags for 45 minutes at room temperature and then I add the sweetener. Sometimes I add some mint leaves
Let me know what you think! I do mint every once in a while
I'm from upstate New York and I used to pick up Luzianne tea when ever I drove through the south, just for iced tea. I'll have to try your concentrate with Barry's Decaf tea now. I use sucralose or stevia drops once my extra long steep has cooled. I wouldn't worry about the tannins after one hour as they start to seep out into the tea anyway after the 5 minute mark. I too have a problem with sugar alcohols and allulose when the quantity is appreciable hence the drops when guzzling iced tea. Must try the little bit of baking soda!
Yes, it's good stuff! I'll have to try these stevia drops!
@@southernketo The sucralose drops taste more like real sugar. I'm not real worried about the sucralose in a cold application. Some of the stevia drops taste very odd, one has a graham cracker smell and back note to me. I make my own solution with pure stevia powder. Still tastes a little bitter and vegetal but better.
I don't mind sucralose, but most of the sucralose that I see have maltodextrin. Any recommendations? @@lorim.4136
@@southernketo I get online 25 percent solutions (1 drop is like 2 packets of sweetener with fillers). My current 16 ounce bottle is Sweet Solutions and I think I've purchased EZ Sweet in the past. Joe at 2krazyketos years ago said he preferred the flavor and noted it was without sugarlike fillers while using so little. It usually comes with a 2 ounce amber bottle with dropper to refill. From what I understand, a bit of sucralose denatures to a bad -6 version above 195 degrees but then February before last they linked erythritol to clotting issues so I try to use whatever tastes best and it least problematic for the food item's preparation as well as my tummy.
@@lorim.4136Thank you so much! I'm going to give it a shot. Maybe I'll come out with a sweet tea version 2.0
So here’s the thing by leaving them soak that long I could taste the paper from the tea bags , but adding that little bit of baking soda takes away any acidity, it has tanic acid in it it’s what gives it the brown color and bitterness, so using a tea ball eliminates the paper taste I was getting , then I started getting all fancy pants , I stated flavoring the tea with mint , or orange peel , and it was ok different but ok , yep even tried green tea , but southern tea is better.
Maybe the paper taste is what makes it so delicious 😂 Never have gotten a paper taste from it 🤷♂️ You mean a tea ball like for loose leaf tea? Try it with my lemonade that comes out tomorrow 😁 🍋
I like to make mine with Splenda allulose. To me, it tastes the most like sugar.
I'll have to look into that one on Amazon. They don't sell it here in my stores
@@southernketo that’s where I get it. It measures like sugar too.
@@lilsisasuOh okay! The natural flavors they put in there must be something sweet like maybe they add a little stevia in there
I love strong sweet tea. I never knew that squeezing them causes the bitterness. And I never knew about baking soda.
I think you'll like this tea! Might be too much sweetener for some, but its strong 😁
Awwwwww delicious sugar free yummy iced tea
Yes! Just finished my batch 🍋
Amen brother ben,wetpre in nc and sweet tea is how we do it,but keto can ruin that,thank you for this,this was my son's and his daddy's all timecfave❤😊
I hope you enjoy 😁
Oh Wow, I’ve been making tea a long time but I never would have thought of steeping it for an hour. I thought it would make it bitter to steep that long. Tea is my favorite of all drinks. 🥤 And thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I will for sure give it a try. I am trying the keto diet so this will be a great help.🎉😊
I thought the same thing! You're very welcome! Make sure you read my notes in the description about the sweetness. Especially if you're new to keto.. It may be way too sweet so I would start with a cup and then use my notes after that 😁 You're very welcome! And I appreciate you watching 🙏🏻
Yessss, my Mom and her Grandmother made tea the same way. I don’t remember adding the baking soda part though? 🤔 I have a tea maker with its own pitcher that I make sweet tea in. I make it and add Stevia to it every time I make a glass. It never seemed like the Stevia mixed in the right way if I but it all in the pitcher premade. I’m going to do it your way and add in Magic Baker’s Blend and the baking soda next time! I’ve got the Luzianne tea now. Mom bought Lipton and Luzianne both. She also made “Sun Tea” sometimes too! Lol Remember that?
Oh awesome! I'll never seen a recipe that does it that way, but I feel like a lot of grandmothers and mothers did it that way and nobody recreated it. You can also dissolve the sweetener into boiling water and just keep it as a simple syrup to add to every glass if you want to make it by the glass. Yes! I made sun tea a couple of times
That looks so good and refreshing. I’ve never heard of putting baking soda in it.
It must be an old Southern Grandma thing 😂
@@southernketo 😂 you are probably right
@@amydavis7951It made the cloudy tea clear
@@southernketo that’s pretty funny. I just put my pinky in it and it automatically gets sweet 😂
@@amydavis7951 😂🍬
I just made this. That sh-- is like black gold😂! Very good. I couldn't wait, had to have some right away!
🤣 thanks! I love it! Curious, did you make it with the full amount of sweetener or less? You'll have to save a little to mix with some of my lemonade that I'm coming out with next week 🤫
Lemonade half and half will be good! I used 1 cup of the Splenda sweetener and then added a bunch of sweet drops because I only had the little bag of the Splenda blend and would have used the entire bag. So now I'm on a mission to figure out how to make a homemade less expensive blend of that magic bakers blend.
@@janp7660 I'm going to mess around with that over the fall when I have time as well. Buying the raw ingredients will make it A LOT cheaper
I have to add that the taste is better with the bakers blend. The liquid sweetener doesn't taste nearly as real as the granular blend
@@janp7660I agree! I usually bring liquid sweetener with me if I'm out of town or something and I use it in unsweetened tea. Definitely not as good, but a whole lot cheaper and it will serve the purpose 😁 I need to work on a sweetener blend
Refreshing!!
Yes! Perfect for these 98 degree days we've been getting 🥵
Wow
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In Canada, we have the artificial drink Iced Tea or Iced Lemon Tea. And I buy the Diet Lemon Iced Tea and then water it down by half. Never had southern Sweet Tea....
I love lemon 🍋 in it! Well, if you get real Southern sweet tea, It is sweeter than most people can stand. That's why the South has the biggest incidence of diabetes in the country. There's no lack of sugar and carbs down here 😞
@@southernketo ..... in that case, I would rather try your version.
I wouldn't blame you a bit!@@truthinthefaceoftyranny
Thank you
You're welcome! 😁
Just curious why you wouldn’t use 100% Allulose. I make drinks (the adult kind) with an Allulose simple syrup all the time, works great.
I like the blend for the taste. Allulose is not the best for my stomach, either, But if it is, you can totally do it 😁
I'm reading up on Keto, still learning. But in reading the label on Magic Blend, it 8g carbs per 2 teaspoons. Wouldn't a glass of tea have a lot of carbs? Or do you not count carbs if it's an artificial sweetener?
Yes, you subtract out all these sugar alcohols and allulose to get the net carbs.
Try pure sucralose on Anazo. Zero carbs and takes about 1/8th teaspoon so super cheap but tastes great
@@jamesfriendlyIf you can have sucralose that's a great option
Nice!
Thank you 😁
What about cold brew tea bags?
I'm really not sure.. those are made to be steeped cold for 8 to 12 hours. They put more tea in them and it is a thicker bag. It would probably just cancel out but it may not brew as strong in boiling water. I'm really just guessing based on the way they are made... If you try it, let me know 😁
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Take all 16 teabags, snip the strings and 'hey, presto'! You can drop the teabags in the pot and fish them out when ready. This is just in case you lack the ginormous teabags. 😅😊
😂 Great tip! Best just to buy the big ones in my opinion...😂
Thanks for the new recipe but that Bakers blend is expensive! I drink iced tea all day, I'd go broke lol
You're welcome! It's definitely a splurge for me too. I normally drink Zevia or LaCroix, etc. But definitely in the summer, I like to do this or some lemonade 😁 what sweetener do you use?
I sweeten mine with real stevia powder, pure with no additives. 1/8th tsp. per gallon plus 4 tablesppons of allulose. Not very expensive. I make a gallon a day and only have to buy stevia once a year because it's extremely sweet. Adding the allulose seems to take away any bitterness the stevia might have. I hope that helps. I can't live without my tea!
Thank you for the tip! What brand do you use? @@CClay-kn9lm
Pure sucralose is a GAME CHANGER. TAKES AN 1/8 TEASPOON SO NO CARBS ANC SO CHEAP
Do you have a recommendation? All the ones I see have maltodextrin
1/8 tsp to how much tea? Thanks.
@@janp7660Good question. Sucralose doesn't bother me, so I'm excited to hear back
@@southernketo Liquid EZ-Sweetz Concentrate or Hard Rhino has pure powder. I would bet that either would be a great choice- no maltodextrin in either option. I use the liquid EZ-Sweetz drops all the time and really love them, still haven't tried the powder, but it's in my cupboard waiting on me! You should look up Piper & Leaf tea out of Huntsville, Alabama. They brew their teas as a concentrate and it's an awesome game changer!
@@informedlady thank you so much! I'm going to check it out! Sounds like it's a much more affordable option for everyone, and I'm all about that 😁
I hope you save thousands from diabetes bro. Curious what would the cost be for a say 24oz drank made this way?
@@thewebstylist thanks! Yes, there's no price you can put on your health anyway. 😁 I would estimate the cost would be from $1.75-$2.75 depending on what sweetener you use for 24 oz. I usually have about 8 oz at a time.
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If it’s good enough for your Nana, then it’s good enough for me. 😀 But Victor….where’s the cottage cheese? 🤔 I’m sure there’s some in there somewhere. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 The ice is made out of cottage cheese....😂😂😂
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Gallon or half gallon jars … you said both
It's a half gallon, sorry. I put it in the description with a link to the jars I use also
I think of diet mt dew!
Oh yeah! Have you tried Mountain Zevia?
It’s my only bad thing I do. It’s been 41 days no soda. Darn. I drink Zevia but haven’t tried that flavor. I know you shop at Walmart, they sell “gallon” size tea bags inline/store. I drink a lot of fluids. I ALWAYS experience gastric issues with Allouse sugar.
@@mike1968442give it a try 😁
Those are half gallon not gallon jars as you were calling them
I didn't say half gallon?
@@southernketoyou said half gallon the first time but I think you switched to gallon after that. I was paying attention! 😊 Thanks for the recipe; this Yankee girl is gonna try it out!
@@technicolorbutterfly9756sorry... I guess gallon is easier to say than half gallon, but is definitely a half a gallon
Um, most places offer sweet tea up north. So saying sweet tea doesn't really exist outside the south makes no sense. Sure there was a time you had to put your own sugar in tea, but restaurants offering sweet or unsweet tea has been a pretty widespread thing since the mid 90s. Like at all McDonald's who have fresh lemon slices for it as well.
Maybe I just went to the wrong places then...🤷♂️ The spots I visited in Chicago and New York had no clue. Of course, I'm not going to McDonald's unless I absolutely have no other choice, so maybe they do 🤷♂️. Now, I would just get unsweetened and I always keep the liquid sweetener with me.
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The reason we look at you like you have three heads is because the tea is so sweet it'll rot your teeth or give you diabetes as you so aptly pointed out. You'll eat too much sugar. Way too much. Having said that? I went to a place here in central California that served Louisiana sweet tea. I get why you like it. It's got this smooth honey like taste. Still too sweet but I do get it. There's something very special about louisiana. We can now get it here and I make iced tea with diluted honey and lemon. Don't knock it till you've tried it.
😂 Facts! The sugar manufacturers would go broke without the Southern United States 😂 I usually mix mine with my lemonade half and half. Normally, I don't make mine sweet as this recipe, but it's the taste people are used to. I'll usually cut the sweetener in half to one cup. I'll have to check out Louisiana sweet tea. I haven't heard of it.
@@southernketo that was spell check. I meant to say Luzianne. We pick lemons fresh every year. Juice them and freeze them. I make a lemonade concentrate out of them with honey instead of sugar and add it to unsweetened tea. They like to call it an Arnold Palmer but I've been drinking that stuff since I was a kid. And I'm from oregon. Also, it would not hurt for the sugar industry to go broke. They know how to produce sugar that isn't near as harmful as the stuff they're doing. Here they call it evaporated cane juice. It's basically unprocessed white sugar. The difference is enough to make the effort. I wish you the best! Y'all are Swedish sugar but I think it's cuz you got sugar in your veins!
@southernketo one more thing that you might be interested in. Check out Monk Fruit sweetener. By Lakote I think it is? I can't use aspartame and most of the sweeteners on the market but the monk fruit has a texture and taste very similar to sugar without harmful side effects. It's actually quite good. You can use it in baking as well. I think it's sweeter than sugar? But it certainly is an acceptable alternative.
Oh gotcha! Yep, my autocorrect just did the same thing 😂 I wish they would go broke! That would solve 80% of our country's health problems. Thank you so much! I want to visit Oregon one day. It's really pretty up there 😁
@@ConstantCompanionYes! I use whatever sweetener is on sale and that one by Lakanto is mostly erythritol with a little bit of monk fruit in it. I like it too. That Magic Baker's is my favorite though 😁
Artificial sweeteners are terrible for you, unfortunately. Organic cane sugar at least isn’t chemical poison.
I agree! That's why none of the ones I use are chemicals 😁 I would never use saccharin, aspartame, maltodextrin, dextrose, or anything like that. Only sugar alcohols.
@@southernketo Sucralose, used in this recipe, is not a sugar alcohol. It’s chemically altered sucrose. Chlorinated sucrose, to be exact. It also is so much sweeter that it’s been found to make you crave sweets even more than sugar. I don’t get how this is a good option.
@@amyk87there's no sucralose in Splenda's Magic bakers Blend. I think you're confusing that with regular Splenda which has sucralose and maltedextrin. The Magic bakers is a blend of erythritol, allulose, and stevia only 😁
@@southernketo Ah! My mistake! I was absolutely confusing them.
@@amyk87I usually pass right by the Splenda stuff because of all their crappy ingredients. Then, that one, on one day and I picked it up and was totally surprised when the ingredients didn't have the junk in them. Maybe these companies are following listening to us!