Front Porch Tea
Ingredients:
11 cups water, divided into 1, 2 and 8 cup portions
1-cup sugar
2 large family-size tea bags
1 (12 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
1-tablespoon vanilla
1-tablespoon almond extract
Fresh orange slices
Method:
In a 1-quart saucepan, combine 1-cup water and sugar.
Cook and stir until sugar dissolves to make sugar syrup. Set aside.
In a 4-quart (gallon) pitcher, pour 2 cups boiling water over tea bags.
Let stand 5 minutes and remove tea bags.
Add remaining 8 cups water, sugar syrup, lemonade concentrate, vanilla and almond extract.
Serve over ice and garnish with fresh orange slices.