A brew of hot tea while popular during a winter evening or cool fall day, likely will not be the preferred beverage on a hot summer day. Yet there are several ways to spruce up the interest in tea during summer without sacrificing any of its great taste. Below are some tea preparation options you can choose, to make your summer tea an enjoyable and desired beverage.
Add Ice and Fruit - Mixing in some cubed or crushed ice will help you cool down while you enjoy the addition of fruits which are traditionally at their peak sweetness during summer. It’s a great idea to take advantage of summer fruit to both sweeten and enhance the flavor of your tea. Peaches, oranges, strawberries, blueberries and even mangos can add a lot of flavor to tea and make it a super tasting fresh summer beverage.
Combine with other beverages - Tea does not have to be sipped solo. When you’re looking for a refreshing and delicious summer beverage, try flavoring your tea with lemonade (e.g. Arnold Palmer drink), strawberry juice, pear juice, pineapple juice or any variety of other juices. Get creative and invent your own fruit-tea formulation drink. After all variety is the spice of life.
Make a Tea punch - Choosing to mix in alcohol (e.g. vodka) or not is up to your discretion, but tea can make a fun great tasting addition to any summer punch. Mixed with fruit, fruit juices, sparkling water and or even sparkling cider, can make a tea-punch the life of the party.
Use it to flavor any food offering - It tastes great as a flavor additive in ice cream and juice popsicles. There are numerous summer recipes that use tea as a flavor enhancer. From chicken dishes, pasta dishes to pound cake, there are lots of recipes that will allow you to have your tea and eat it too.
Several tea aficionados maintain that ‘wet tea’ application to your skin can help prevent ultraviolet sun damage and that tea consumption is even healthier for you and better at preventing dehydration than water. Whether or not the aforementioned claims are true, the important fact to remember is that there is no reason to miss out on tea during the hot summer months.
