Sweet Tea

Sweet Tea  n. chiefly Amer. South.

Sweetened Iced Tea.

Geographical note:- You know you're in the South if you ask for Tea at a restaurant, and you are served Sweet Tea.

Old Fashioned Sweet Tea

Makes 1 gallon

Ingredients:

4-7 bags black tea

water

a heap of sugar

Directions:

Boil tea bags in about 2 cups or so of water, for about 5 minutes or less if you'd rather. Pour a heap of sugar in a gallon pitcher. The more sugar you use, the sweeter the tea will be. Pour hot tea on top of the sugar. Stir. Add more water, until the pitcher is full. Stir. Chill. Serve in a glass, over ice.

A true Southerner would rather die than call that sweet tea. The whole point of sweet tea is hypersaturation -- dissolving more sugar in the tea than is possible at the given iced (cold) temperature, by doing the dissolution with hot tea. Some Southerners will claim that sweet tea isn't sweet enough if it isn't chunky.