Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea

Beat the summertime rut alongside Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea! ... It's a totally refreshing & flavorful combination.

This Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea is in addition to thus flavorful in addition to refreshing!  I was inspired to brand this past times Taylor Takes a Taste's Blue Green Iced Tea, but of class changed it upwardly to practise my ain version.

But earlier nosotros acquire into how to brand this delicious tea, I own got an exciting announcement!  (Exciting to me anyway.)  I got a NEW CAMERA!  Yes, I own got joined the basis of digital SLR photography.  This is my offset ship featuring photos taken alongside the novel camera.  And, boy, practise I own got a lot to learn!  I fumbled through my offset photograph shoot, fumbled beingness the substitution word, in addition to realized that, wow, I've got a lot of run to practise to genuinely acquire what I'm doing.  I appreciate your patience piece I acquire in addition to improve.

So, since I was playing alongside dissimilar photographic tv set camera settings to come across what they would do, I did both an indoor in addition to an outdoor shoot alongside the iced tea.  Here are some things I very quickly learned during my outdoor shoot:


1.  Ice melts very fast inwards the balmy 95 marker southern summertime heat.

2.  This 95-degree-ice-melting rapidly creates unsightly effort beads on one's subject, when one's dependent area happens to hold upwardly a nice, refreshing, cold iced tea drinking glass in addition to pitcher (exhibit Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to a higher house ... come across to a greater extent than or less the bottom of the glass??).

3.  I should actually pose my pilus inwards a ponytail.  Hair actually ruins a skillful shot when the breeze picks upwardly juuussst every bit y'all snap your picture!

4.  Outdoor critters are speedily attracted to cutting citrus fruit.

5.  And, in all likelihood most importantly, I actually should hold upwardly certain to habiliment some shape of footwear for my outdoor shoots.  Deck boards that own got been basking inwards the blazing Sun all twenty-four hours are actually much hotter than 1 would think.

But that's plenty well-nigh my novel photographic tv set camera in addition to photograph shoot woes for now.  Let's movement on to the rockin' Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea.

First step, steep some tea bags - only similar y'all would to brand regular sweetness (or unsweet, for that matter) tea.

Tea ... it is a-brewin'

Then, brand a huckleberry elementary syrup - that's only blueberries, sugar, in addition to H2O simmered together.  Simple, huh?  (I only made a pun!  Are y'all laughing?  At to the lowest degree grinning only a tiny bit??)  Put your berries, sugar, in addition to H2O together inwards a saucepan ...

Makings for your elementary syrup - it's simple!

... convey them to a boil, trim the heat, in addition to simmer for only a infinitesimal or two.

Simmering

Next, strain the huckleberry syrup, squish all the juice out of the berries, in addition to squash inwards the juice of 1/2 a lime.

Combine the brewed tea, huckleberry elementary syrup, some water, in addition to ice.  Now you've got refreshing in addition to tasty Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea!

I'm thinking this method would run alongside lots of fruits.  Hmmmmm, intend I'm going to own got to get blackberry.  What well-nigh peach??  I bet peach would hold upwardly good!  Got other ideas? Shout 'em out inwards a comment ... I'd love to listen them!

Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea

Source:  Inspired by Taylor Takes a Taste's Blue Green Iced Tea 

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
Tea:

• 4 tea bags (regular or decaf dark tea)
• 2 c. boiling water

Blueberry elementary syrup:

• 1 c. blueberries (fresh or frozen, preferably fresh)
• 3/4 c. granulated sugar
• 1 c. water
• Juice of 1/2 a lime

Directions

1. To brew the tea: Pour 2 cups of boiling H2O over the 4 tea bags; allow steep until cooled. Squeeze out tea bags. Set aside.
2. To brand the huckleberry elementary syrup: Place blueberries, sugar, in addition to the 1 loving cup H2O inwards a modest saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil; trim rut in addition to simmer for well-nigh a minute. Remove from rut in addition to allow cool.
3. Once cooled a bit, strain the syrup to take the blueberries. Mash the blueberries against the side of the strainer to unloose all of their juice, letting this juice strain into your elementary syrup. Squeeze inwards the juice of 1/2 a lime; stir to combine.
4. To mix the tea: Combine the brewed tea in addition to huckleberry elementary syrup inwards a 2-quart pitcher. Fill the residuum of the pitcher alongside mutual frigidity H2O to brand 2 quarts.
5. Serve over H2O ice alongside a lime wedge.

UPDATE NOTE:  Please hold upwardly certain you're using a 2-quart pitcher.  My mom made this over fourth of July weekend, in addition to persuasion it was terribly weak, similar only sugar-water.  Come to detect out ... her pitcher was a gallon pitcher!  If you'd similar to brand a gallon, double the tea in addition to huckleberry elementary syrup.

Enjoy!

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