Peach honey iced tea

I pour a splash of unsweet southern iced tea into a mug and warm it until the chill is off. Then I stir peach honey into that splash until it disappears, because if I dump it into ice-cold tea it sits on the bottom. The mix goes back into the pitcher. I use Luzianne when I’ve brewed a pot and chilled it, or a fridge jug when I haven’t. Ice stays in the glasses so the batch doesn’t water down.

Most days I drink it at the kitchen counter after I’ve been out in the heat. If I mixed the pitcher before supper, it stays on the table through the meal. On slow afternoons I take a glass to the back steps and sit out there in the shade.

Ingredients

• 4 cups unsweetened iced tea, cold (Luzianne brewed and chilled, or Uncle Matt’s, Tejava, The Southern Standard, or Milo’s)
• 3 tablespoons Infused Honey — Peach
• Ice

Putting it together

1. Pour the tea into a pitcher.
2. Spoon the peach honey into a small cup with 2 tablespoons of tea. If the tea is ice-cold, warm that splash first so the honey loosens. Stir until you cannot see it on the spoon.
3. Stir that into the pitcher. Taste. Add another teaspoon of honey if you want it peachier.
4. Fill two glasses with ice and pour.

Tips

Honey sits in a lump at the bottom of ice-cold tea. Dissolve it in a little warm tea before it hits the pitcher. Unsweet is the point. If the jug is already sweet, the peach has nowhere to go and the glass tastes like candy.