Honey-Citrus Iced Tea Recipe

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A frozen orange or lemon slice in the glass looks pretty and helps keep this refreshing punch nice and cold. Appropriately for my bee theme, the blend is sweetened with honey. -Sheila Bradshaw, Columbus, Ohio

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Honey-Citrus Iced Tea Recipe

Prep: 15 min. + chilling

Yield: 8 Servings

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Ingredients

4 individual tea bags
2 cups boiling water
3 medium navel oranges
2 medium lemons
2 cups orange juice
1/4 cup lemon juice
3 tablespoons honey
1 liter ginger ale, chilled

Directions

Place tea bags in a teapot; add boiling water. Cover and steep for 3 minutes; discard tea bags. Pour tea into a pitcher. Peel and section two oranges and one lemon; add to tea. Stir in the orange juice, lemon juice and honey. Cover and refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight. Cut remaining orange and lemon into slices; freeze.
Just before serving, strain and discard fruit from tea. Stir in ginger ale. Serve with frozen fruit slices. Yield: 8 servings.

Nutritional Analysis: One serving (1 cup) equals 124 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 11 mg sodium, 32 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 fruit.

Originally published as Honey-Citrus Iced Tea in Taste of Home August/September 2002, p37