This is heaven in a glass. To me it tastes like summer. Whether you like your iced tea barely flavored or sickeningly sweet, you will love this tea. Okay, the actual tea part is entirely up to you. This drink is made up of two parts: iced tea of your choosing and peach simple syrup. This syrup is great because it really takes after its name. SIMPLE.
You need two ingredients. Three if you include tea bags (or loose tea).
- granulated sugar
- water
- peaches (2 peaches, plus more slices for serving)
- tea
This recipe calls for a cup of water, a cup of granulated sugar, and two cups of peaches.
My favorite part about this syrup is that it can be made with either fresh (and peeled) fruit, or you can easily substitute frozen. I used peach, but really, you can use any fruit. I think I'll try raspberry next...
Pour the water and sugar into a small pot and heat on medium until the sugar has liquefied.
Add in your fruit (peeled of course).
Stir the fruit until it has softened with a wooden spoon.
Crush the fruit against the side of the pot to release all the juice.
After the fruit has softened in the pot for 5-10 minutes turn off the heat and set aside for 30 minutes to steep.
The mixture should be syrupy (obviously) and smell very peachy and overly sweet.
Now for the fun part. Pick out a pretty bottle and insert a funnel and a fine sieve into it. Pour the peaches into the sieve slowly to prevent spilling and clogging. Push as much liquid down as you can.
Work in batches to get all the liquid down into your bottle if your sieve and funnel is too small to hold your entire fruit batch.
My pretty bottle is huge, so I didn't fill it by a long shot.
My bottle is the size of a wine bottle. This is my whole batch of syrup and my byproduct, which is peach compote. Sweet. Two products in one. And "compote" just sounds much more impressive than "fruit syrup byproduct" don't you think?
The compote tastes quite yummy too.
Liam insisted on helping me make iced tea to go with the peach syrup.
I'm the only adult in the house who likes iced tea, so I just made a small batch. The syrup can be added separately, which I love. My tastes run the gambit of "barely sweetened" to "OMG, I'm pretty sure I just gave myself diabetes".
As always with iced tea, add pretty of ice, then enjoy!
This is just another picture of the syrup (because its just so pretty!) in a bottle that is much more size appropriate.
peach iced tea
Peach simple syrup is wonderful mixed into iced tea. A delicious summer drink.
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups peaches, peeled (fresh or frozen)
- black tea
Instructions
1. Heat the water and sugar in a small pot, stirring occasionally until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Add the peaches, peeled (fresh or frozen is fine) into the pot. Hit the peaches against the side of the pot with a wooden spoon releasing the juice for 5-10 minutes, or until very soft.
3. Take the pot off the heat and set aside to steep for 30 minutes. The juice should now be very syrupy and overly peachey sweet smelling.
4. Attach a funnel and sieve over your syrup bottle and slowly pour the peach mixture into it. Push the liquid down into the bottle with your spoon. As the sieve fills up, dump the byproduct (peach compote) into an airtight container to use later.
5. Your syrup is now complete. Mix into black iced tea in a glass full of ice. Use as little or as much as you'd like per serving. Enjoy! Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
Details
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: 1 small bottle of syrup
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