Exact quantities, then the method.
This one is for anyone who likes a sweet, milky tea. You brew the vanilla and caramel tea strong, then simmer it with sugar, a real vanilla pod and a spoon of caramel into a glossy syrup. A splash in cold milk over ice tastes like an iced cream soda; in hot milk it is closer to a pudding in a mug.
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A real vanilla pod beats vanilla extract here, because its tiny black seeds add the flecks and a rounder, warmer flavour. Rinse and dry the pod afterwards and it will happily go on to flavour a jar of sugar.
You'll need
- 4 tea bags of Lipton Black Tea with Vanilla and Caramel
- 500ml freshly drawn water at 100C, just off the boil
- 250g caster sugar
- 1 vanilla pod, split lengthways with seeds scraped
- 1 tablespoon caramel sauce
Equipment
- 1 medium saucepan
- 1 fine sieve lined with muslin for straining
- 1 sterilised 500ml glass bottle with cap
- 1 saucer for covering the steep
Method
- Brew the four tea bags in 500ml of just-boiled water for four minutes, covered, then lift them out and press gently.
- Tip the tea into a pan with the sugar, the split vanilla pod and its seeds, and the caramel sauce.
- Simmer gently for ten minutes, stirring until the sugar and caramel have melted in.
- Lift out the vanilla pod, and rinse and dry it to reuse if you like.
- Strain through a muslin-lined sieve into a jug.
- The warm vanilla caramel syrup goes into a sterilised bottle; seal, chill.
- Serve one part syrup to four parts cold milk over ice, or hot milk for a pudding-like drink.
- Tip: refrigerate the vanilla caramel syrup and use it soon (we cannot give this home made vanilla syrup a keeping time), shaking it before pouring as it can settle.
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Lipton Black Tea with Vanilla and Caramel, 20 Tea Bags 34g£6.00
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Brewed with: Lipton Black Tea with Vanilla and Caramel, 20 Tea Bags 34g
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