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Iced Tea Recipes

Grandma's Iced Tea Recipes Make Drinks You Can't Resist


You will love Grandma's iced tea recipes. They make delicious iced teas that truly refresh. As a bonus, these beverages contain only wholesome, all-natural ingredients.

Personally, I am not a tea drinker, but I cannot resist a tall glass of iced tea, especially in hot weather. It's a drink that truly refreshes and satisfies.

Be sure you try the iced teas flavored with mint, rhubarb, or wild strawberry; you will love them! And who can resist an iced tea & ice cream combo? Now that's refreshing! Treat yourself to something special. Try all the old-fashioned recipes for iced tea.





Iced Tea Recipes

These all-natural flavored iced tea recipes are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1929.

Mint Iced Tea

Fresh mint, 1 large handful; black tea leaves, 4 heaped teaspoonfuls; water, 4-1/2 cups; sugar, 1-1/2 cups; juice and rinds of 2 lemons, or 1 orange.

To make concentrate, place mint in 2-quart container and bruise slightly. Add tea leaves; boil water, and pour over mint and tea. Cover and steep 5 minutes.

To make iced tea, place 1 cup of concentrate, plus sugar and lemons or orange, in 2-1/2-quart pitcher. Fill with cold water and add ice cubes.

Rhubarb Iced Tea

Tea freshly brewed, 1 quart; juice and rinds of 2 lemons or 1 orange; 1 lemon, cut into thick wedges; sugar, 1-1/2 cups; rhubarb to taste. Mix together tea, rhubarb, lemon, and sugar. Cook until rhubarb is tender. Strain and cool. Pour over broken ice in cups or glasses. Delicious!

Wild Strawberry Leaf Iced Tea

Take a generous handful of fresh (or dried) wild strawberry leaves and steep in boiling water. Sweeten if necessary with sugar or honey. Chill. The flavor is very subtle.

Iced Tea Recipe

This iced tea recipe is taken from the book "Aunt Babette's Cook Book, Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household" by Aunt Babette, published by Bloch Publishing and Printing Company, Chicago, in 1889.

Allow a teaspoonful of tea for each cup, put the tea in a porcelain-lined or china teapot, and pour as much cold water on it as you require for your tea. Set this in ice-chest for twelve hours or more. You will find this tea more delicate in flavor than when prepared with the boiling water. It will not have any bitter taste at all, which tea made with boiling water always has, if allowed to stand any length of time.

Iced Tea Recipes

These old-time iced tea recipes are taken from the book "Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping" published by Buckeye Publishing Company, Minneapolis, in 1877.

Natural Ice Tea

Prepare tea in the morning, making it stronger and sweeter than usual; strain and pour into a clean, stone jug or glass bottle, and set aside in the ice chest until ready to use. Drink from goblets without cream. Serve ice broken in small pieces on a platter nicely garnished with well-washed grape leaves. Iced tea may be prepared from either green tea or black tea alone, but it is considered an improvement to mix the two.

Lemon Iced Tea

Tea made like that for iced tea (or that left in the teapot after a meal), with sugar to taste, a slice or two of lemon, a little of the juice, and some pieces of cracked ice, makes a delightful drink. Serve in glasses.

Iced Drink Recipes

These vintage iced drink recipes are taken from "The White House Cook Book" by Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House, and Mrs. F. L. Gillette, a celebrated 19th-century cookbook author, published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, New York, in 1913.

This recipe for iced tea and the iced coffee recipe were once used to make refreshing beverages for guests at the White House.


Iced Tea Recipe

Iced tea is now served to a considerable extent during the summer months. It is, of course, used without milk, and the addition of sugar serves only to destroy the finer tea flavor. It may be prepared some hours in advance, and should be made stronger than when served hot. It is bottled and placed in the ice chest until required. Use the black or green teas, or both, mixed, as fancied.

Iced Coffee Recipe

Make more coffee than usual at breakfast time and stronger. When cold put on ice. Serve with cracked ice in each tumbler.

Ice Tea Recipes

These old-fashioned iced tea recipes are taken from the "Second Edition of The Neighborhood Cookbook" published by the Council of Jewish Women, Portland, in 1914.

Iced Tea & Ice Cream Drink

Chill a pitcher of freshly made tea of the desired strength. Sweeten with orange syrup instead of sugar, being careful not to get it too sweet. Then squeeze in enough lemon juice to give it a little twang, and set on ice again to get thoroughly chilled.

Have ready a bowl of chipped ice, a bowl of vanilla ice cream, and a pitcher of cold tea. Fill a dainty glass one-third full of ice, pour on tea until it is two-thirds full, and then drop a spoon of ice cream on top and pass at once on a plate.

Southern Iced Tea

Make tea in usual fashion except that you add two whole cloves to each cup of tea before brewing. Strain, and while still hot add sugar and lemon to taste. Pour through cheesecloth. Before serving put in each glass crushed ice, two or three sprigs of mint, which should be slightly bruised, and a maraschino cherry, and also a very thin slice of lemon with the rind left on.




iced tea recipes cookbook Try the old-fashioned iced tea recipes and enjoy a delicious, ice-cold, refreshing drink.





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