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Black Cherry Iced Tea

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Black Cherry Iced Tea

  • healthy HEALTHY
  • make ahead MAKE-AHEAD
MAKES 2 1/2 QUARTS
ingredients
  • 2 1/2 quarts water
  • 1 pound fresh black cherries, pitted, or two 10-ounce bags frozen pitted black cherries, thawed
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar
  • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 3 whole star anise
  • 1/2 vanilla bean, split and scraped
  • 16 green-tea bags
  • Mint sprigs, for serving
directions
  1. Bring the water to a boil in a large saucepan. Add the black cherries, sugar, lemon juice, star anise and the vanilla bean with its seeds. Simmer the cherries over low heat for 15 minutes, crushing them against the side of the pan with a wooden spoon. Remove the cherries from the heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour.
  2. Strain the cherry juice through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan, pressing on the solids. Discard the solids. Bring the cherry juice to a boil over moderate heat. Remove from the heat, add the tea bags and let steep for 5 minutes. Discard the tea bags and let cool to room temperature. Transfer the cherry tea to a large pitcher and refrigerate until chilled or for up to 2 days. Serve the tea over ice, garnished with mint sprigs.
Recipe by Danielle Custer
From Summer Entertaining, A Porch Picnic
This recipe originally appeared in July, 2001.