You boil water (like two or three cups) with a couple of tablespoons of tea leaves of your choice. I kind of winged it when it came to proportions and got super lucky. You need to be careful that you don't boil it too long. The bitterness creeps in otherwise. If you're using tea bags, let it seep in the hot water for a while but do not press the tea bags! Bad idea.
Sugar syrup is the important ingredient here, because it spreads through the tea beautifully. You boil equal parts sugar and water (try it out with one cup) until you get a clear, sort of thickish syrup. Let the syrup and the hot tea cool until it's room temperature before mixing them together in a big jar. Try it to make sure it's not too sweet but it totally differs from person to person. Squeeze in a lemon and you have the most beautiful iced tea ever!
While on the topic of DIY, I made pasta and tomato sauce today which was... interesting, to say the least. Note: do not confuse tomato puree with tomato sauce or real diced tomatoes. It was like eating butter chicken minus the chicken. Anyway, I'm on a quest to learn how to cook. That's on my list of things to do so that I can fend for myself. The next step would be learning how to drive but ugh, this fucking laziness.
And finally, my sister and I got super adventurous and made a galaxy print t-shirt!
I don't know how it's going to look once it's gone through a cycle of wash, but it was super fun to do. I'm probably going to experiment with this idea a lot more but now on to something new to do.
No comments:
Post a Comment