Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2020
Whether you sip it daily or want a special beverage for summertime meals, here is how to make a lively, full-flavored brew.
For brisk and refreshing iced tea, we skipped lower-quality bagged tea in favor of loose-leaf tea. We started by brewing tea with boiling water to extract the aromatic compounds from the leaves. Then we cooled the extraction with ice water ...