Southern Sweet Tea Recipe (Step-by-Step, Refreshing)

July 18,2024

Learn more about sweet tea, its history, and how to make a batch everyone will enjoy. After all, it's not summer until there's a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge..
It's not summer until there's a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge. Here's how to make a batch everyone will enjoy..
Before you Southerners read this and start thinking, “Are you kidding me? Who doesn’t know how to make sweet tea?” — hear me out. I am Florida-born and Georgia-raised, but when I moved to California, one of the first things I noticed was that no one drinks sweet tea out here! I always keep a pitcher ready in my fridge, and my friends inevitably ask me, “How do you make this?”