I can't believe the poultry forum beat us.

I always make iced tea with lemon and sugar. Does that count? I make it at home.

Ahhhhhhh the funky weirdness of us all. It's amazing what we do and don't, never think of and take for granted.

southern Ice tea is the best. That stuff they sale in the bottles is nasty.

Talk about weirdness. Have you every been to a southern dog show. Or gone birding with a bounce of birding nuts?? Boy do I miss those days.

Exactamondo mon amies. You MAKE ice tea. Here it's make from some perservative crystal bit stuff. In the south (and other places) it's actually made from REAL TEA. What a concept! Why didn't the Canucks catch on with their Brit tea thing? Harmony NO KIDDIN!! I can't even get real iced tea here let alone sweet. ok I'm gonna so get depressed thinking about this going into the time of the cold and the dark sigh.......ok I'm over it already. I refused to be dragged down by tea challenged peoples.

I always made homemade iced tea in Canada, as does my mother.

We usually brew 8 tea bags in a large pitcher, overnight. Add juice of 1 lemon and about 1/2 a cup of sugar, but now I use Splenda instead. It's fab!

The stuff in the bottles is nasty.

We use the 8 tea bags, hot water and a cup of sugar no lemon. The trick is to not let it brew to long and not to boil the water.

The really Big Trick is to make the Southern Sweet Tea properly!!

1 Gallon Jug with lid
10 small teabags or 6 Family size

Fill Jug with cold water, add bags and set it on the porch in the sunbeams

When nice and dark, remove bags, add 1 cup sugar, NO SPLENDA!!
Serve over ice with a sprig of mint and/or lemon...

Don't let my current location fool ya.. I am a dyed in the wool, born and bred, south of the Mason Dixon line suthuner...You don't believe that, call me on the phone and listen...I Gay-ron-tee yas I gots one deep accent.. or so they say...I sound fine to me... ;-)

"1 Gallon Jug with lid
10 small teabags or 6 Family size

Fill Jug with cold water, add bags and set it on the porch in the sunbeams

When nice and dark, remove bags, add 1 cup sugar, NO SPLENDA!!
Serve over ice with a sprig of mint and/or lemon"

My Mom ,made it the same way!!

can someone send me buckwheat pancake mix? can't get it dow here, and i love buck wheat pannercakes

Try Amazon.com you can get every thing on Amazon. I use to joke that you could get everything except sex on Amazon, that was until I went looking for a massager to use on my neck. Did I turn red!!!!

jordan here ya go...
http://www.hodgsonmill.com/roi/673/Pancake-Mixes/Buckwheat-Pancake-Mix-02024.htm

thank you!

Or....
http://www.adirondackreflections.com/servlet/the-222/Buckwheat-Pancake-Mix/Detail

http://amishacresgeneralstore.com/foodstuff/products/buckwheatflour.html

http://www.bobsredmill.com/product.php?productid=3733&cat=108&page=1

and last but not least, (wren was right!) Amazon.com! lol
http://www.amazon.com/New-Hope-Mills-Buckwheat-Pancake/dp/B0001V02U6

The garden keeps me so busy that I've just discovered "Better than sex cake" and now we're on to iced tea, accents, and dipping steak in molasses. We do like the Thai iced tea: very sweet. I think it's made with evaporated milk.

I love buckwheat pancakes too!

Sorry about the splenda ladies - just watchin' my waistline!

I'm watching mine too! But I desided after all these years fighting it, it has won.

a new hatching mission has started!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/915431/

buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup mmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Take a 2 Quart sauce pan and fill it about a inch from the top with hot water add 4 family sized tea bags bring to a boil.
While the tea is getting ready to boil Take a gallon pitcher i use a plastic one and add 1 and 1 third of a cup of sugar.
When the tea reach's a boil turn it off and let it sit maybe 5 to 10 minutes for a little extra brew time never timed it so just don't let it get cold or it won't melt the sugar.
After your wait on the tea is over pour it steaming hot into the sugar be sure to hold your bags back with a wooden spoon.
Now stir it real good to get the sugar mixed into the hot tea stop stirring and wait about 15 minutes don't really matter just when you can come back this step is just to make sure all the sugar melts.
Now fill the gallon pitcher with cold water and stir as you pour the water in i use the same boiler oh excuse my southern it's i use the same pot i boil my tea in to fill the pitcher.
Now fill you a tall glass full of ice and enjoy some sweet tea southern style.
You can adjust the sugar and add more or less according to your taste "ENJOY"!

I bought some teabags in Georgia that were for iced tea awhile back. Are they better for making iced tea or is that just a marketing ploy?

I bought the Lipton big tea bags that you only need the one to make a pitcher of tea.

Marking ploy.

I use those too flowerjen for making iced tea.

We live right down the road from Nora Mill, http://www.noramill.com/. They have great stone ground grains and their products come with recipes. Makes wonderful holiday gifts. I'd not pay much attention to the touristy stuff on the page, but look to the left under various flours and cornmeal products. The "Pioneer Porridge" was worthy of me doing a knock off. lol Being able to get both white and yellow stone ground cornmeal makes the difference between great grits or great polenta. It's all good!

A comparison can't be made between maple syrup and molasses. One is like a rustic wine and the other champagne. They are not interchangeable.
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I disagree. I feel it's all about what a person enjoys. I've had Krug and Dom Pérignon but haven't liked them at all and yet I have enjoyed very inexpensive wines in my time.

Consider the fact that what is sold as maple syrup in supermarkets bears little (if any) resemblance to the real thing and yet is so popular because it's the brand "mom" used to serve. Some folks will opt for molasses and some for maple syrup - it's simply a matter of personal taste.

I don't care for maple syrup, real or fake, but love molasses.

I don't understand your anology Pirl, of Krug and Dom. I've never had Krug, but there are some pricey vintages. There are plenty of Dom vintages that are, in my opinion, not so great (and still pricey). It's just a name. There are lots of great champagnes if you are living in Epernay, but not many are imported here. Having lived in northern Spain, I personally prefer cavas, which are relatively cheap, compared to many champagnes.

Maple syrup has grades just like Dom has vintages. People who appreciate either product will buy accordingly. I was referring to the fact that molasses is a more rustic product than quality maple syrup... a good molasses is like a quality rustic wine. Made fresh to be consumed currently. A quality grade maple syrup is like good champagne.
Laurel

My "anology"?

To each his or her own.

The Millspaugh Bros of Trumansburg NY used to make my favorite syrup. Of course, it was the only one grandmom used to give us. Mom fed us that c*#p from the plastic bottle.

M & M Sugar Shack ..... mmmmmm

Dang that stuff's expensive, now.

Wonder if they still do that .......

Eeeww...the plastic bottle stuff I don't like.

I prefer to buy "B" grade maple syrup that most people use for cooking because it has WAY more flavour to it. The A grade amber syrup is nice but a little weaker.

Laurel, my mom owns a house in Cornelia, every time we'd visit them we'd make a trip up to Helen. Love all the stores and some great german food!

Mom always used Karo syrup and molasses when I was growing up.

The only time my mom or I use molasses is in recipes, except one time my mom was on a black strap molasses and wheat germ kick(YUCK!!!)

molasses and maple syrup in baked beans.

Molasses is high in iron. I like it for baked beans, corn bread and biscuits. I'm with Moxie on the maple syrup flavors and like it best on pancakes, in baked goods and for dressing up fruit deserts. I was born without a sweet tooth, so rarely have either. In the same vein, I prefer extra brut to demi sec. I love chicken(s) too.

Flowerjen, do you still visit here? Cornelia is only ten minutes from Maypop. Perhaps you can come visit me someday? The Lodge At Smithgall Woods was just named one of the ten best culinary lodges in America in November's Bon Appetite magazine. Helen is Oktoberfesting away these days. Only a little Fall color here.
Laurel

I won't have any reason to visit there since my dad passed away 4 yrs ago and my mom now lives with my sis in Jacksonville, FL. They've been trying to sell the house in Cornelia but no luck so far. Sorry, wish I "knew" you years ago..
I still have friends in Marietta.

Well, perhaps you can visit in Atlanta (Sandy Springs) or take a mini-trip to the country. Maybe Mom's house needs checking on?

I've been disappointed in Fall so far, but heard on the news that it's supposed to be a specially beautiful one. Seems late. Maybe it's that eight hours per year global warming thing combined with the years I've spent here. That puts Fall weeks late. lol
Laurel
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It probably needs to be checked on, I'm not so sure I trust her real estate agent.

Give me a shout out. Sounds like a good-deed-doing trip is in order. We have other cool DGers out here in the woods as well.

I will def let you know.