Lemon black tea - memories of summer
Overview
When summer comes, you can see all kinds of ice drinks in the streets and alleys. The shape and color are pleasing to the eye, and the taste is diverse. Everyone has a cup, but deep in the memory, the cup of lemon black tea is the one I miss the most. In the summer when I was a child, there were not so many kinds of cold drinks now, nor were there water bars everywhere. If you were thirsty, you could buy a cup and drink while shopping. At that time, the most thirst-quenching thing was the colorful soda drinks in the canteen. Each narrow-necked glass bottle was filled with red and green soda. A bottle cost a few cents. You could pry the bottle opener, insert a straw, and start drinking. It was a refreshing drink. If you want to take it away, the boss will help you pour it into a plastic bag. After drinking, everyone's tongue is colorful. We like to drink tea, morning tea, afternoon tea and evening tea, basically from morning to night. This tea is not a dry drink. There will be various snacks when drinking tea, just like a Cantonese tea restaurant, but there are more snacks. We call it dad's tea. With Papa Tea, the most exciting thing for children is that they can drink a cup of frozen lemon black tea. This lemon tea cannot be bought elsewhere, it can only be drunk in tea shops. Moreover, in an era when a bottle of soda cost only a few cents, a cup of lemon tea costing 3 yuan could be considered a luxury. The light red tea soup is packed in a plastic cup. The bottom of the cup is a thick layer of saccharin. Ice cubes and sliced lemons are half-sinking and half-floating in the tea soup. There are colorful striped straws and a colorful plastic tube inserted in the cup. The top end of the plastic tube looks like a coin, and the bottom end is round and is used to crush lemons. Pound it a few times, and the lemon pulp and juice will come out. Stir the saccharin at the bottom a little, and take a few sips. The lemon pulp will splash out sweet and sour juice in your mouth. Pull out an ice cube, and the heat will be dissipated a lot. When the drink bottomed out, I took out the lemon slices with not much pulp left, sucked up the tea on it, and chewed it. It was bitter and sour, and the hairs all over my body stood up, but it was very enjoyable. Moreover, there is another benefit to drinking lemon tea in a tea shop, that is, you can have unlimited refills. The boss will give you a pot of black tea, and you can pour it yourself. This cup of lemon black tea can last from the afternoon until you go home for dinner. But after all, I can’t go to a tea shop to drink every day, I can’t afford it! Therefore, in the summer, my family will have a repertoire, that is, homemade lemon tea, which is what we look forward to every summer. To make lemon tea, choose green lemons, which are sour enough. At 2 yuan per catty, you often buy a few catties. Rub the lemon skin with salt to remove pesticide residues, wash and slice. Boil water in a large cooking pot, add black tea, cook for 3 minutes, turn off the heat and soak for 3 minutes, then decant the tea, put half of the lemon slices into the black tea, add enough sugar, squeeze out the juice from the other half of the lemon slices with your hands, throw them in, stir well, the lemon tea pot should be as big as 3 footballs, divide the lemon tea into small pots, and put it in the refrigerator. When you want to drink, just grab a cup and just scoop it out. It’s so generous. The prepared lemon tea is also delivered to the neighbors, always with the pot attached. When drinking lemon tea, a pot of spicy snails is often fried. On a sultry afternoon, one sip of snails and a sip of tea is also a small blessing in summer!
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Ingredients
Steps
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Rub the skin of lemons and oranges with salt and wash with water.
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Lemon and orange slices.
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Squeeze out some of the water from the lemons and oranges.
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Brew the black tea with hot water to get the flavor. When the tea is slightly cool, take out the tea leaves, add lemon, green orange, sugar, honey and squeezed lemon green orange to the black tea. Stir evenly and put it in the refrigerator to chill.
