CITRUS-MINT ICE TEA PUNCH

Citrus-Mint Ice Tea Punch image

Number Of Ingredients 7

4 cups water
4 tea bags (black tea preferred)
8 sprigs small fresh mint
2 tablespoons sugar
3/4 cup fresh orange juice
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Ice cubes

Steps:

1. Pour the water into a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and add the tea bags, 4 sprigs of the mint, and sugar. Stir to dissolve the sugar and let steep 8 minutes. Cool to lukewarm, about 10 minutes. 2. Strain the orange and lime juice through a fine wire strainer into a pitcher. Remove the mint sprigs from the tea and pour the tea into the pitcher with the juices. Taste for sweetness. Put about 6 ice cubes in each of 4 tall glasses and fill each glass with punch. Garnish with the remaining mint sprigs. Serve cold.From "1,000 Mexican Recipes." Copyright 2001 by Marge Poore. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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