Lemon-Vanilla-Iced tea

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.