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    "title": "Cold Brew Lemon Tea (1L Fridge Jug)",
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    "excerpt": "A 1L fridge cold brew on four Hyson Lemon Ceylon bags in cold filtered water with half cucumber and lemon slices, steeped overnight in a glass jug.",
    "content_text": "A jug of cold-brew lemon tea lives in the fridge door and pours cold for a couple of days: four Hyson Lemon Infused Black Tea bags left overnight in a litre of cold filtered water, with half a cucumber in thin wheels and a couple of lemon slices dropped in for freshness. Brewing it cold and slow draws out the lemon and the Ceylon without the tannin grip you get from a hot brew left to go cold, so it pours smooth and clean straight from the jug.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the Cold Brew Lemon Tea (1L Fridge Jug) recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/cold-brew/cold-brew-lemon-tea-1l-fridge-jug/A few things to get right: use cold filtered water rather than boiled-then-chilled, since the dissolved oxygen helps the slow extraction; give it ten hours (eight is thin, twelve is the limit before it turns); and lift the bags out at the ten-hour mark so the last glass tastes like the first. The cucumber and lemon go in at the start and stay in, perfuming the jug as it empties. Use a glass jug, not plastic, which picks up the flavour over two days.",
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            "prep": "5 min + 10 hr fridge",
            "serves": "Makes 1L (about 4 servings)",
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            "ingredients": [
                "4 Hyson Lemon Infused Black Tea bags",
                "1L cold filtered water (not chilled boiled water; dissolved oxygen helps the cold extraction)",
                "1/2 long unwaxed cucumber, sliced into thin wheels",
                "2 thin slices of unwaxed lemon",
                "1 small fresh mint sprig, optional, added at the start",
                "1 sealed 1.2L glass jug or carafe with a tight lid (do not use plastic; plastic picks up flavour across the two-day life)",
                "For each glass at service: cubed ice, a fresh small mint sprig and a thin slice of fresh lemon"
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                "Pour 1L of cold filtered water into the clean glass jug. Drop in the 4 Hyson Lemon Infused Black Tea bags.",
                "Add the cucumber wheels and the 2 thin lemon slices to the jug. Add the optional fresh mint sprig if using.",
                "Seal the jug with its tight lid. Refrigerate for ten hours minimum; overnight is the ideal timing (start in the evening, ready in the morning). The colour at ten hours is a clear pale gold-amber.",
                "After ten hours, open the jug and lift the four tea bags out with a clean spoon. Press each bag gently against the inside of the jug to release the absorbed water. Discard the bags. Leave the cucumber and lemon slices and the mint sprig in the jug; they keep perfuming the cold brew across its two-day fridge life.",
                "Reseal the jug. The cold brew now keeps in the fridge for 48 hours; beyond that the cucumber and lemon start to go soft and the brew loses its bright character.",
                "To serve: pour into a tall glass over cubed ice. Garnish each glass with a fresh small mint sprig and a thin slice of fresh lemon. The cold brew should pour clear pale gold-amber with visible cucumber wheels and lemon slices coming through from the jug; some drinkers will spoon a cucumber wheel out of the jug into their glass as a garnish.",
                "Drink within ten minutes per glass; the ice keeps the temperature down and the fresh herb and lemon at the top of the glass perfume each sip. The jug pours four 250ml servings, or six smaller 150ml servings."
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