Weekend Recipe
This one is from one of our favorite series of fiction: The Mitford Series by Jan Karon.
The books are wonderful and the food as described by the writer will make your mouth water. There is actually a cookbook called the Mitford Kitchen Reader and here is one of the recipes from that book that I’ve tried and can attest to it’s tastiness:
Cynthia’s Heavenly Tea
3 Lipton family sized tea bags
2 sprigs of fresh mint (if you don’t have this on hand, skip it)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 6oz can of frozen lemonade
1 11 1/2oz cans of Apricot nectar (peach nectar works just as well)
2 teaspoons of almond extract
Steep the tea bags (with the mint leaves if you are using them) in 5 cups of boiling water for 4 minutes. Remove the tea bags and mint then add the sugar stirring until it is dissolved. Stir in the remaining ingredients and add 3 more cups of cold water. Serve over ice.
Jan Karon invites you to visit her website at http://www.mitfordbooks.com I know you will enjoy the website. “The Mitford Cookbook” is featured.