Sweet Cran-Tea

Hey, everybody. Jimmy and June Kennedy here once again with Go Out{side}. And we’ve got another favorite recipe. I guess we have a lot of favorites don’t we. Seems like I always say it’s true, though. They’re all good. This is kind of our version of sun tea or camping tea, we call it. And it’s super easy. I’m it.
We let it steep it set a boil in the tea. You know, we don’t really need hot water. I mean, we have a little hot water to thermos here. That’s just to make a simple syrup. You can let this sit in the sun for three to 5 hours. Something like that. If it’s really hot out, you can just steep it for like 45 minutes.
To an hour. That’s what we’re going to do. We’re just going to put the tea bags in there and let it sit for 45 minutes. We’re also going to add a little bit of cranberry juice too. So six cups of water and two cups of cranberry for eight cups total. But we’ll have the recipe on the website. And then for camping, just keep some hot water in your thermos or boil some and then yep.
Always have that classic for camping because one of us is going to break something, right? Yeah, without a doubt. Hundred percent. And then we just add the hot water to the sugar and make a simple syrup so that way you don’t need to go to the trouble of boiling water to, to do that. Especially if you already got it in your thermos.
So Junebug, you want to go ahead and add some, help me add these tea bags and we usually use decaf, but we have all this black tea from a catering event, so we’re just going to do that. But when we do this for the family, we use decaf and you can use any flavor you want. This is good old Lipton right here.
Nothing wrong with that. So we’re going to add 12 bags to this. We like it kind of strong and it’s going to let steep, like I said, for up to an hour, it’s kind of sunny out.
So maybe less I’m not really telling.
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Coming out.
Yeah, at least it’s warm up here. Finally warmer. We still have snow around, but I.

It’s going. So just add all these, make sure they’re all in the water. You can just dump them right in it doesn’t matter. And we’re gonna go ahead and add cranberry juice right to that. And I said about two cups. So we’re just going to eyeball it. 1, 2.. good enough? Let that sit for a while, we’ll come back, and show you how to do the simple syrup super easy all right.
See you in a second. OK, folks, the tea has been steeping for almost an hour. We just kind of went and played a little bit. June got a new volleyball net today, so pretty excited. All right. So we got this. This is smelling good. Already, I took a whiff. Now we’re gonna make the simple syrup. This is kind of the fun part.
We need, wow that’s nice and hot. We need four tablespoons. Try that, honey. Go ahead and stir that up. All you’re really doing is dissolving the sugar and this skips a whole process right here. You can do this on the stove. You can do it over a fire microwave. Anything just dissolving. It makes it really sweet. So I’m going to add that right to the tea.
I like it just like this, but without the sugar. But this is pretty good, too. You probably prefer the sugar.
Yeah, it’s pretty dissolved.
Is it? Stir it a second more and it gets really can kind of see it there. It gets kind of thick, doesn’t it? It’s cool. Thick.
Yeah. Like, I can move it. So, you know, it’s kind of like jello-y, jello.
It sure does. That’s exactly right. All right. That’s good enough.
That and we’ll stir that up. With a knife? Well, we don’t have a big spoon, so.
You have a tiny spoon.
This works. Multipurpose tool. Sortof. All right.
It smells like it is good. You can’t have that much of this though, because this is caffeinated. With sugar, you can have a little bit. This is beautiful too the cranberry juice gives it a great color. Get me one this is great. At home around the campfire. Anywhere delicious. You want a lemon? Do that, and you can use oranges or anything. It’s yummy. I’m sure that’s all it is to it, folks.
What should we call this just sweet cran tea? Sun tea? Something. Whatever you do, make this at home, make it camping. It’s really, really good. I recommend a decaf and a little less sugar, but that’s just a personal preference. Enjoy. Go outside and I’ll see you next time.