Tangering Orange Zinger Tea Photo by edkohloer
While black tea is wonderful on its own, it’s often nice to add a little flavor to it. Fruit flavors added to your tea can be very refreshing in hot weather, but what if you don’t want all the sugar and calories of adding fruit juice to your iced tea?
That’s where fruit-flavored herbal teas come in. Herbal teas add flavor to your tea without adding sugar or calories. Here’s one method of doing that. Since herbal tea and black tea take different amounts of steeping time, steep them separately.
Tangerine Orange Zinger Black Iced Tea
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of chilled black tea in a pitcher
- 4 bags Celestial Seasonings Tangerine-Orange Zinger
- 2 cups boiling water
Directions:
Place the 4 Celestial Seasonings Tangerine-Orange Zinger bags in a teapot and pour boiling water over them. Allow to steep for 4 to 6 minutes. Remove herbal tea bags and allow to cool for about ten minutes. Slowly add to pitcher of chilled black tea and refrigerate. Makes 1 quart. This recipe can be doubled.
Hints:
- Make extra Tangerine-Orange Zinger herbal iced tea and freeze it in an ice cube tray. Then use them as ice cubes in when you serve the tea.
- Chill tall glasses in the freezer and put them out just before serving.
- Serve your iced tea with long, elegant iced tea spoons,
- Serve with long, iced tea straws. You can get them in colorful transparent plastic. You can even coordinate them with the color scheme of your tableware.
- Serve with a choice of sugar-free sweetener or simple syrup.
- You can add grated orange zest to your simple syrup when you prepare it to add extra flavor to your iced tea. Remember to use only the orange part of the peel. The white part can add a bitterness that you cannot sweeten away.
- Be sure your black tea isn’t bitter by following these directions.
- This recipe works just as well with Celestial Seasonings Black Cherry Berry, Country Peach Passion, Raspberry Zinger, or Lemon Zinger. Or try any fruity herbal tea of your choice, just be sure to brew it separately from the black tea.
For more info: Celestial Seasonings info on Tangerine Orange Zinger
Comments
This is the one redeeming thing about tisanes from merchants like Celestial Seasoning. It works especially if you have a poor quality regular tea on your hands and want to spice up that flavor a little.
First of all, Jason, I wouldn't use a poor quality tea. While loose tea is desirable, most reputable tea companies now put a much better quality of tea in their teabags. If you tear one open,you will no longer see dust or fannings. The pieces are smaller than those in loose leaf tea, but that just means you need to brew the tea 2 minutes instead of 5 minutes and the taste is really very enjoyable. Not everyone has the money or the ability to buy loose leaf tea even occasionally, let alone all the time. This site is for those people as well as the people who can buy teas that cost $25.00 an ounce.
Second, as much as I love a cup of plain black tea like Assam or Ceylon, I like a change now and then, particularly when I'm making iced tea. To me, iced tea is an alternative to drinks such as soda, juice, or beer. I drink it in place a water most of the time. I like to add additional flavors sometimes to change it up a little. It's not what I have in place of a nice cup of tea.
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