It is more than water and sugar
Some people believe that making ice-tea requires just a bottle of cold water and many, many spoons of sugar. Anyone who has ever tried to drink the result of such a recipe will know that this is really very wrong.
In fact you first need very hot water, if possible water at about 372 Kelvin. In addition it takes some dried leafes of a plant that grows somewhere in India and is called "Tea" (what a stupid idea that you could make any tea without tea). You throw the leafes into the boiling water or pour the water over the leafes (this mainly depends on the hardware available and on your personal preferences). After some minutes the difficult part begins. You have to find a way of dividing the water from the dark mass colouring it. A simple way of doing this is to filter the tea, but there are many other possibilities, most of them involving badly burned hands.
You should then put the tea into a fridge and wait until it has cooled down to about 280 Kelvin. It is then ready to absorb an awful lot of this white, crumbly stuff causing caries. You find the right amount by continuously throwing in sugar until it does not solve any more. If you don't want the whole thing to taste like watery sugar, you might take the juice of some lemons and add it to the mixture. Other people try peaches instead of lemons, but they are the guys that also drink banana-beer.
(C)1999 Richard Brauer
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