12ozlemonade or favorite lemon soda mocktail version
ice
herbs for garnishex: rose petals, mint, hibiscus petals
Instructions
Bring water to a boil in your tea kettle or a large sauce pan. Pour into a heat resistant container (I use a large mason jar) and add in all the tea bags. Steep for 5 minutes and then toss out the bags.
Add in honey and stir until dissolved. Place container in the fridge for 1 hour to cool.
In a small bowl add sliced strawberries and sugar. Toss to coat the strawberries in sugar. Let macerate at room temperature or in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour (until tea has cooled).
Once the tea has cooled remove it from the refrigerator.
If you plan on making just one cocktail at a time add the following:- 7 oz of tea- ¼ cup strawberries- 3 oz of vodka (or for mocktail 3 oz of soda or lemonade)
If you want to batch it all at one time add tea, strawberries, vodka (or soda/lemonade). Mix. You can either serve now, or place back into a jar into the refrigerator for us to 1 week.
Pour over ice and garnish.
Notes
- Syrup: You have to keep a pretty close eye on your syrup and keep the heat fairly low. You don't want to burn anything or it will affect the entire batch.
- Sieve: If you don't have a sieve, no worries. You can use something like cheesecloth, but I would just leave the seeds since they don't bother me.
- Muddling: Don't have a muddler? No worries. You can use a wooden spoon or even the back side of a utensil. When you muddle you want to make sure you did this with only a little bit of liquid in the glad to make it easier and not splash out of the glass. Just follow the instructions below.
- Batching: You can for sure batch this recipe for a large pitcher/group. I would assume times-ing the recipe by 3 would fill a normal sized pitcher. I would suggest following all the same steps as below. When it comes to muddling, do that directly into the pitcher with the mint, lime juice and syrup. Then add the rest of the ingredients.