Raspberry iced tea can be made in various ways, including using raspberry-flavored tea, raspberry juice with tea, blended raspberries with tea, or a raspberry Long Island iced tea. Sweetening is recommended as it is acidic.
There are many different ways to make raspberry iced tea. Some are simply raspberry flavored teas, or juice and tea, while others use whole raspberries blended. Some of the teas that fall into this category don’t use raspberries or tea. Long Island iced tea is an extremely alcohol-laden variant of this type. It all depends on how much work the person making the drink wants to do.
The simplest version of raspberry iced tea is very easy to make. The tea used can be herbal or caffeine blends that contain raspberry flavor. These can be sold as raspberry tea, raspberry ginger or a few other names.
Choose how much tea to brew, estimating about one tea bag to eight ounces of water. Increase this amount and then refrigerate. Alternatively, tea bags can be used to make sun tea. Some people sweeten their tea ahead of time and others allow people to sweeten to their preferred level. Either way, plan to provide some sugar or another sweetener since raspberry iced tea is quite acidic.
Another fairly simple way to make raspberry iced tea is to combine raspberry juice with tea. The best tea choices are caffeinated or decaffeinated black tea. In a half-and-a-half mixture add the tea soaked in raspberry juice, cool and serve.
Some people use fresh or frozen raspberries, which they will blend in the blender. The blended raspberries are then added to the steeped tea. The only problem people may have with this type of recipe is that the raspberries are yummy, and this will change the texture of the tea. If raspberries are mixed in, people may wish to strain them, although this can be difficult to do.
An alternative is to heat the water to boiling, then add tea and raspberries. Once the tea has steeped, discard the raspberries and tea bags. The tea will have a pleasant raspberry flavor, but people won’t have to deal with the seeds.
A type of raspberry iced tea that does not contain raspberries or tea is a variant of Long Island iced tea. This is a combination of different alcohols, usually mixed with cola. In the raspberry version, the cola can be discarded. The drink becomes a blend of equal parts vodka, tequila, triple sec, gin, raspberry liqueur and rum. One and a half parts sweet and sour are also added. Some cocktail specialists prefer to omit the raspberry liqueur and use raspberry-flavored vodka instead.
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