Perfect

I have been making Russian Tea for the last 10 years or so and it has always been hit and miss. I never wrote down what I did. So sometimes it was good, sometimes to sweet. The ingredients for Russian Tea is Tang, instant tea lemonade mix, sugar, cinnamon and cloves. So this time I tasted and tested and found the right one! And here it is.

2 Cups Tang.
1 pkg Lemonade. (no sugar kind, get the Kool-Aid kind that you add sugar)
1 cup scant sugar.
1/2 cup unsweetened instant tea.
1/2 cup of cinnamon imperils. ( little red hots )
Mix this in a gallon zip lock type bag and store in a dry place. It can get rock hard if it gets moisture in it. My sister Patty knows all about! She spent some time trying to chip out enough to make a cup one day.

A side note. I dont add cloves to it anymore. Just because I dont. You can if you want, but be careful as to much clove is a bad thing!


The reason I think that it was too sweet is that the lemonade mix had sugar in it and then you would add a cup of sugar for the tea, but then it was yuck!

There is nothing like a cup of this tea when you are sick or just chilled to the bone.
Up in Alaska, when I would go to the cabin in the winter, I would have a big jar of this mix. My sister Patty and I would drink cups and cups of this while we sat around the kerosene heater as neither of us drank coffee and hot coco is not good after the 3 cups, way, way, too much dairy!