Earl Grey Iced Tea Recipes

PEACH-EARL GREY ICED TEA WITH BOURBON

Steps:

• Bring 3 cups water to a boil. Remove from the heat, add 8 Earl Grey tea bags and steep 6 minutes. Remove the tea bags and gently squeeze out the liquid; pour the tea into a pitcher. Stir in 2 cups each cold water and peach nectar, 1 cup bourbon, 1/4 cup peach schnapps, 2 tablespoons each sugar and lemon juice and 1 sliced peach. Chill. Serve over ice.

EARL GREY TEA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• 1. Pour the cream and milk into a double boiler or a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of gently simmering water (the bottom of the bowl should not touch the water). Whisk in 1/2 cup (100 grams) of the sugar, the tea, and the salt and stir until the sugar and salt have dissolved. Warm the mixture until you see steam rising from the top. Remove from the heat and strain the mixture into a bowl, pressing on the tea leaves to extract as much infused liquid as possible. Discard the tea leaves and return the infused dairy mixture to the double boiler.
• 2. Meanwhile, prepare an ice bath in a large bowl and set another bowl over it. Set aside.
• 3. In a medium bowl, with a kitchen towel underneath it to prevent slipping, whisk together the egg yolks with the remaining 1/4 cup (50 grams) sugar until uniform. While whisking, add a splash of the hot dairy mixture to the yolks. Continue to add the dairy mixture, whisking it in bit by bit, until you've added about half. Add the yolk mixture to the remaining dairy mixture in the double boiler. Set the heat under the double boiler to medium and cook the custard, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon and reducing the heat to medium-low as necessary, until steam begins to rise from the surface and the custard thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon. Hold the spoon horizontally and run your finger through the custard. If the trail left by your finger stays separated, the custard is ready to be cooled.
• 4. Strain the custard into the bowl sitting over the prepared ice bath and stir for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the custard has cooled. Transfer the custard to a quart-size container, cover, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or, preferably, overnight.
• 5. Pour the chilled custard into an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Place the container in which you refrigerated the custard in the freezer so you can use it to store the finished ice cream. Churn the ice cream until the texture resembles "soft serve." Transfer the ice cream to the chilled storage container and freeze until hardened to your desired consistency. Alternatively, you can serve it immediately-it will be the consistency of gelato. The ice cream will keep, frozen, for up to 7 days.

EARL GREY ICED TEA

Steps:

• Place sugar and orange peel in 2 quart pitcher. Add 1 cup of boiling water and sitr to melt sugar. Add teabags and remaining boiling water. Steep 5-10 minutes according to desired strength. Remove tea bags. Stir in ice. Chill thoroughly.

ORANGE-EARL GREY ICED TEA

Steps:

• Steep loose tea (or tea bags) and orange peel in boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Strain the tea (or remove tea bags and orange peel) and pour into a large pitcher.
• Stir in orange juice and sugar (or Splenda) until the sugar (or Splenda) is dissolved. Add cold water.
• Refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
• Serve over ice with orange wedges, if desired.