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Iced Orange Tea

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Recipe information

  • Yield

    <p> <lb>Makes 8 drinks.<pb/></lb> </p>

Ingredients

5 tablespoons orange pekoe tea leaves
three 2 1/2-inch strips of orange rind
2 cups fresh orange juice
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
sugar to taste
3 cups ginger ale
8 thin orange slices

Preparation

  1. Pour 4 cups boiling water over the tea leaves and orange rind in a heatproof bowl and let the mixture steep for 10 minutes. Strain the tea into a pitcher, add the orange juice, the lemon juice, and the sugar, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and chill the mixture. Add the ginger ale, pour the mixture into tall glasses filled with ice cubes, and garnish each drink with 1 of the orange slices.

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