Thai Iced Tea 5

Thai Tea

In New Jersey, Thai tea is available as THAI TEA POWDER  in Thai grocery stores.   For some reason, "Oriental" food  markets, which carry Chinese, Japanese and even Philippino ingredients, do not carry Thai Tea Powder or other Tai ingredients - kaffir lime leaves,
galanga, etc.  If interested e-mail me for locations of two Thai groceries I have found in northern NJ.
 
If anyone knows, I would like to know why "Oriental" food stores don't carry Thai foods.
 
Iced Thai tea has become our "standard" beverage, replacing sodas, juiecs and "regular" (orange pekoe) iced tea.  We keep a very large jug of Thai tea in the refrigerator at all times.
 
To brew it we (and two Thai restaurants) use automatic coffee makers (Mr. Coffee/Bunn/Braun, etc).
 
To the filter add 1/3 cup Thai tea powder for 8 "coffee cups" (48 oz) of water.     Aftre that has brewed, pour into a jug.  Add and
additional 1/6th cup of Thai tea powder (half of the 1/3 cup measure) ON TOP of the already used tea.  Brew another 8 coffee cups/48 oz of water.  Repeat another 8 cofee cups/48 oz water without adding any additional tea.
 
The resulting blend is the perfect strength for us and similar to that served in restaurants.
 
Sweetened condensed milk is added to individual glases as desired.
 
Actually, we prefer it without the milk, and just add some sweetener - sugar/Sweet&Low/NutraSweet.
 
 
 
--
Bob Methelis


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From: bobmethelis@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Wanted: Thai Tea Recipe Date: 02 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <5ag79d$d6g@camel4.mindspring.com> references: <5aepal$50@camel2.mindspring.com> <32cb23c9.1b79@vu-korat.ac.th> x-server-date: 2 Jan 1997 11:47:57 GMT organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. reply-to: bobmethelis@mindspring.com newsgroups: alt.cooking-chat

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