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Herbal Sun Tea

lee lemmon wrote:
> My own preference is something that hereabouts is called an Arnie Palmer,
> one-half lemonade, one-half iced tea.  

What I do now is make "sun tea" (a fad a few years ago) on my back step in
the summer, tea bags in a gallon glass jar of water, all day, which makes
it strong, with some of my own herbs, especially mints, and especially
lemon balm if I have any (one of the mint family, very lemony)(much cheaper
than buying lemon juice or lemons) in the water.  

The herbs don't come out as strong that way, so sometimes I make a pot of very 
strong lemon balm and-or mint tea and mix it with the china tea when pouring out 
of the gallon jar into refrigerator containers (pitchers and plastic jugs).  

I say "if" on the Lemon Balm because it's not as hardy as the true mints and dies 
out more easily, and some winters I lose it all, and have to buy new plants 
or start new from seed, which takes a long time to grow enough to crop, 
where I always have my nice survivor-type "weedy" mint.  I saw some of that 
sold in a nursery as "Kentucky Colonel Mint," but haven't heard of it by 
that name otherwise, so I suspect it was some nurseryman's idea to tag an 
appealing name onto the plentiful kind to make it easy to sell.  I suspect 
that it _has_ a proper name, but I don't know it--should do some web 
research into the mint family, now that I can.  I bought my original start 
years ago from a catalog as "spearmint", but the taste doesn't resemble 
true spearmint, and the plant doesn't resemble true spearmint, other than 
as mints in general resemble each other.  Its best virtue is that I 
_always_ _HAVE_ some, without any trouble or nursing.  

-- 
Love in Christ,

Sibyl Smirl

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 
From: Sibyl Smirl 
To: anglican@list.stsams.org
Subject: Re: Sweet Tea etc.