Whether you sip it daily or want a special beverage for summertime meals, here is how to make a lively, full-flavored brew. For brisk and refreshing iced tea, we skipped lower-quality bagged tea in favor of loose-leaf tea. We started by brewing tea with boiling water to extract the aromatic compounds from the leaves. Then we cooled the extraction with ice water but did not strain it. By steeping the tea for an hour at this lower temperature, we could draw more flavor from the leaves without…
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