Working time: ca:25 minutes (exclusive cooling
time: 30 minutes)
Ingredients:
4 tea bags of Earl Grey Tea
2 organic lemons
1 vanilla pod
60 g sugar
4 handfuls of ice cubes
400 ml Tonic- or Sparkling Water
Preparation:
1. Boil 400 ml of water, pour over the tea
bags and leave to infuse for 3 minutes. Remove the bags and allow the tea to
cool for about 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, wash the lemon hot and dry.
Peel off the zest of a lemon into thin strips. Cut vanilla pod in half lengthwise
and scrape out the marrow. Halve and put the pods aside for the ganing. Cook
200ml of water with the shell strips, vanilla marrow and sugar in a saucepan
until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat and leave to cool for about
10 minutes.
3. Squeeze out the peeled lemon and stir the
juice under the syrup. Remove shell strips. Cut the second lemon into 8 slices.
4. Put 1 lemon slice each and 1 handful of
ice cubes in 4 glasses (á 450 ml). Pour on tea and lemon syrup.
5. Pour in iced tea with tonic water. Pit 1
lemon slice each onto the glass and serve.
