Red Fruit Tea Cordial Recipe

Red Fruit Tea Cordial

A homemade red-fruit tea cordial: brew the tea strong, sweeten and sharpen it with lemon, then bottle it to dilute with sparkling water whenever you like.

Prep 20 min

Serves 20

Easy

The recipe

Exact quantities, then the method.

This turns the red fruits tea into a homemade cordial you can keep in the fridge and dilute whenever you fancy a fruit drink. Brew it really strong, dissolve in plenty of sugar while it is hot, sharpen it with lemon, then bottle it.

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To serve, top a little cordial with sparkling water, about one part cordial to five of water. Makes a 500ml bottle, enough for around twenty glasses.

20 min Serves 20 Easy Fruit Tea Recipes

You'll need

4 tea bags of Lipton Black Tea Red Fruits with French Strawberries
500ml just-off-boil water (95C)
200g caster sugar
50ml fresh lemon juice

Equipment

1 sterilised glass bottle of at least 600ml

Method

Brew four tea bags in 500ml of just-boiled water for six minutes, then lift them out.
Stir in the sugar while the tea is hot, until it fully dissolves.
Stir in the lemon juice, then let it cool to room temperature.
Bottle the red fruit cordial in a sterilised bottle, seal it, refrigerate and use it soon; a home made red fruit cordial has no stated keeping time.
To serve, pour one part cordial to about five parts sparkling water over ice.
Dissolve the sugar while the tea is still hot; it will not fully dissolve once the cordial has cooled.

What you'll end up with: A deep red, sweet-sharp fruit-tea cordial, ready to dilute into a long, fizzy fruit drink whenever you want one.

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