Sweet Tea Biscuits

My next entry for “Sweet Tea Week” is none other than a tribute to this sites namesake.  Well part of it.

It’s no secret that I love biscuits.  Hence,  one of my previous blogpost about, you guessed it!  Buttermilk Biscuits.  Here is a link to it in case you missed it before:  http://babiesandbiscuits.com/buttermilk-quick-biscuits#more-564 .  I have already proclaimed this at the top of my lungs and will continue to FOR – E- VER!  (Remember that part in the movie, “The Sandlot”?  Where Squints tells the story and he says,”FOR-E-VER”!) ?????  That is the kind of forever I mean.

Anyway, moving on…..

I wanted to do a biscuit, but REALLY wanted to incorporate Sweet Tea somehow.  I decided to use Paula Deen’s Buttermilk Yeast Biscuits as a base and then I tweaked it.

SO!  This is what I did:

I must say, they turned out pretty nice.

First, I boiled 1 cup water and then added 3 Family Size tea bags. › Continue reading

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Sweet Tea

You know I had to do it.

The only appropriate thing to do when you do a week about sweet tea, is actually START with Sweet Tea!

I have tried a bunch of different versions.  Be it restaurants.  Be it grandma’s.  Be it mom’s.  You get the picture.

One thing I have figured out, is that I don’t really like my sweet tea………. well TOO sweet.

I mean, let’s be honest.  Sometimes, you come across some that are so sweet, it is literally like drinking a glass of syrup. › Continue reading

Tags: Family Size Tea Bags, Granulated Sugar, Lemon Slices, Light Brown Sugar, Recipe, Southern, Sweet Tea, Syrup