Spiced Cranberry Cocktail Iced Tea Recipes

Steps:

• Combine water, cloves, and cinnamon stick in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
• Place tea bags in spiced water, cover, and steep for ten minutes.
• In another saucepan, combine sugar, orange juice, and lemon juice. Bring to a boil.
• Strain tea into orange juice mixture.
• Chill, serve over ice.

Steps:

• Place the cranberries and water into a large pot. Bring to a boil and cook just until the berries pop, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand at room temperature until cold, several hours.
• Strain out the cranberries and stir the orange juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice and sugar into the liquid. Add the cinnamon stick, whole cloves and allspice berries. Bring to a low boil. It is ready to serve at this point, but it is even better if you allow it to sit overnight.

Steps:

• 1. In a large pot, combine water and cranberries.
• 2. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes.
• 3. Next add the sugar, orange juice, lemon juice, cloves, allspice berries and cinnamon sticks.
• 4. Cover and steep for 1 hour.
• 5. Strain the mixture, pour into a large pitcher and allow to cool to room temperature on counter.
• 6. Once cooled place in refrigerator, until chilled.
• 7. When ready, add the pineapple juice, ginger ale, lemon and orange slices to the cranberry mixture in the pitcher and serve in tall glasses with lots of ice.

Steps:

• Heat cranberry juice cocktail to boiling in 2-quart saucepan. Pour over tea bags and mint in 2-quart glass measuring cup or heatproof pitcher. Let steep 5 to 10 minutes.
• Strain tea mixture. Stir in sugar. Serve tea over ice. Add more sugar if desired.